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pronunciation - Is forte pronounced fort or for-tay? - English . . . Summary: The confusion may come from 'forte' as used in music for strong or loud, which is definitely pronounced 'for tay' = ˈfɔr teɪ In French, the same letters are pronounced 'fort' = fɔrt But those languages are not English, and English has its own rules, inspired by the originals but with no compunction to remain faithful, at least here with the French borrowing
Omission of definite article with musical instruments They're pretty much equivalent That said, omitting the article has a slight feeling of playing with a group or orchestra, wherein the instrument is a synecdoche referring to the position the person occupied within the group I used to play the flute I used to play flute in the Civic Orchestra Omitting the article also can carry the feeling of playing an instrument in the general sense I
Double negation: not, neither - nor in a sentence The last sentence is OK; the other two are overnegated The not in the first clause scopes the second one too, so you don't need to repeat the negative in it The first ones are OK because the negative doesn't scope the second clause, which needs some negation Though neither had he is very odd and archaic construction, especially in a supposedly parallel sentence
etymology - Origin of wannabe and its precursors - English Language . . . It will be put up to you time after time that the soldier men's forte is fighting, and that a different class of brains is required for parliamentary work That's the sort of guff and griffle the old has-beens, the ancient want-to-be's, and the slow-down Laborites are starring in the press and from the platform Don't you listen to them
Why does one half have no hyphen, but two-thirds does? I often see the fraction ⅔ written with a hyphen, but I never see ½ written with one Is it correct to have the hyphen in two-thirds, and if so why don't we write one-half?
Past plans for the future - English Language Usage Stack Exchange 0 How about: We had agreed that, when xyz happened, we would do abc Analysis of grammar is not my forte, so no guarantees as to whether this suggestion is either correct or appropriate; but, my understanding is that there you have three tenses: past perfect - past simple - conditional which I think conveys the correct sequence of events
Words that have same spelling, different meaning, and different number . . . The closest definition I could find is that of the heteronym: A heteronym (also known as a heterophone) is a word that has a different pronunciation and meaning from another word but the same spelling These are homographs that are not homophones Heteronyms don't necessarily have a different amount of syllables, but these are included Other examples of heteronyms are present, produce, lead