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Use of and lo in a sentence - English Language Usage Stack Exchange What, if any, is the right way to use "and lo" in a sentence? My basic structure is " [discussion about thing], and lo, [example of thing]", kind of like: There's a cliche about circus clowns being creepy and dangerous, and lo, last night I saw a clown violating a teddy bear
What is a more modern variant of the interjection Lo! 13 Historically, “lo!”, isn’t expressive of any particular emotion (alas) or addressed to any particular person (dude), and it's not an all-purpose interjection (Hey) It expressly calls upon hearers to look at, to take account of, to behold what follows In contemporary English we say “look!” in pretty much exactly the same way
interjections - How to use the expression lo and behold - English . . . 9 Lo comes from Middle English, where it was a short form of lok, imperative of loken, "to look" (see Etymonline, Wiktionary) To behold means "to see, to look at" and comes from Old English bihaldan, "give regard to, hold in view" (compare to behalten in contemporary German)
Which is correct? log in, log on, log into, log onto [duplicate] For my money, log on to a system or log in to a system are interchangeable, and depend on the metaphor you are using (see comment on your post) I suppose there is a small bit of connotation that "log on" implies use, and "log in" implies access or a specific user Not to be confused with "login" - a noun describing a combination of username password I'd pick 1) because the program is
terminology - What is the difference between log in, sign in; register . . . There are several different groups of words here log in, sign in, login, log on, logon, authenticate All of these words are more-or-less synonyms "Login" "logon" may or may not be acceptable (check your style guide) If they are, they may be nouns instead of verbs (referring to the action of logging in or the state of being logged in) There is no widely-understood difference between any of
What is the short form for little ? Is it lil or lil? Ngram shows li'l beating out lil' and li'l' since before 1900 (Note that you must press "Search lots of books" after clicking on the link ) And since Lil is a very popular name (both as a first name and as a hyphenated portion of an apparently Arabic name), any Ngram results for that variant must be ignored But as @sumelic points out, the Ngram results are highly suspect, due to the
It isnt vs. its not - English Language Usage Stack Exchange I tend to think "it isn't" sounds a little more formal than "it's not", which sounds a bit more colloquial I don't really have any solid reason for that though, it just sounds feels that way to me
Toilet, lavatory or loo for polite society My friend is trying so hard to fit into polite society, and is raising her child to say loo rather than toilet I know it should be lavatory (and I would not say lav) but we are in the 21st century
Wassup, can a loc come up in your crib? It's very limited currency "gangland slang" in California Loc = loco = crazy somehow morphed into being a generalised term for Hispanic members of certain street gangs (you can read all about it in that link; I can't be bothered) I think in context here it's the Latino equivalent of blood or homie as used by negro gang members (or plain dude, guy as used by more mainstream speakers)