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Which is the correct idiom: First things first or First things first? first things first Used to assert that important matters should be dealt with before other things Comparing Google hits as a very rough measure of usage gives "first things first": 1,660,000 "first thing's first": 199,000; So, the apostrophised version is an order of magnitude less common, but not negligible
Are there any specific words for the first events and first things In particular, "first fruits" referring to the first produce of a harvest, and to festivals that celebrate them And many first things are harbingers of what is to come This refers not to their being the first specifically, but of the first grey hairs, first frost of winter, etc being harbingers of age, impending winter etc
From Aristotle to Linnaeus: the History of Taxonomy - Daves Garden Taxonomy's first father was the philosopher Aristotle (384-322 BC), sometimes called the "father of science " It was Aristotle who first introduced the two key concepts of taxonomy as we practice it today: classification of organisms by type and binomial definition
How to use The first thing I did was? [closed] It can be there; deletion is optional -- the first thing I did was to shutdown the laptop and go and the first thing I did was to shutdown the laptop and to go are both grammatical, and both mean the same thing In a cleft sentence with Active do, one uses infinitives –
expressions - Whats a phrase for when: to do A, you first need to B . . . When one of the finite series of required steps requires that an earlier step in the series be performed first, the result is what Wikipedia calls a deadlock: a deadlock is a situation in which two or more competing actions are each waiting for the other to finish, and thus neither ever does
Is there a single word for the first thing to consider is? A look at the answers given before that shows that both senses of 'first' were assumed by different responders It's difficult to judge which sense is prevailing in most of the Google returns for a "the first thing to consider is" search, but there seem to be ten times as many hits as there are for "the second thing to consider is"
Does chronological order mean the most recent item comes first? In technical and common parlance, the phrase "chronological order" indicates that the items are in order of occurrence or creation, oldest first (being the first in the chronology) So it's [ 1997, 1998, 1999 ] and not [ 1999, 1998, 1997 ]
Is it correct to refer to the last 2 items in a list as the latter two? First, apologies for often starting sentences with lower case, its because I find upper case letters a bit tedious I can say: of the cat, the bat and the dove, the latter two can fly and the former two are mammals, although usually you'd say "the first two are mammals" Basically there is an equivalent of latter two, namely former two
Number word or Arabic numeral? - English Language Usage Stack Exchange First things first, what is the difference between a number and a numeral? A number is an abstract concept while a numeral is a symbol used to express that number “Three,” “3” and “III” are all symbols used to express the same number (or the concept of “threeness”)