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Should it be concerned person or person concerned? An office colleague wrote the following in an email: Kindly log a ticket for the same and assign it to the concerned team I wrote back the following: I believe it should be "Kindly log a tic
What do you call an individual who tolerates criticism? As there isn't a specific context given, I'm going to suggest a self-explanatory term: criticism-tolerant It is a neologism and not a common word but everyone would understand
What is a word to describe something that belongs exclusively to or is . . . A right or privilege exclusive to a particular individual or class: ‘in some countries, higher education is predominantly the prerogative of the rich’ Per your example the feature film reinforces the deterring notion that personal assistants are the prerogative of high-level executives This can also be intensified by the use of 'sole'
Is it correct to use their instead of his or her? Certainly many usage guides have advised against use of this "singular they" on various "logical" grounds Nevertheless, singular they has long been part of the English language, and there are various posts on Language Log giving examples of it being used in the Bible, by Shakespeare, by the president, by the Canadian Department of Justice,
What is a person (not a company) who provides a service called? If you negotiate a contract with an individual to provide a service, with that person billing you for services rendered, that person is a contractor If you hire a company to provide you services, the people working for that company are employees (or sometimes contractors) of that company and contractors from your viewpoint
How do you greet multiple recipients in an e-mail? And lastly, if an email is really to a single individual, but with a few more individuals copied in (such as a question to an individual developer, but where I want the email trail to be visible to the group), then I would use Dear Bob (Alice, Charlie, Dilbert) The last one is not a convention I have seen elsewhere, but I find it works for me
pronouns - Is it correct to use their when referring to a single . . . Imagine you were learning English as a foreign language; I'm sure you'd be told that (unless there is gender ambiguity) a female individual requires the possessive adjective "her" The only reason I can think of for using 'their' in a case like this would be to tease those who are annoyed by such solecisms