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word usage - Can Pend be used as a transitive verb? - English . . . Probably, in this case, 'pend' lacks usage as there are other words available : defer, delay, postpone, such that we are spoilt for choice, as is often the case in English where we borrow other words from other languages and which duplicate concepts
Is to pend a verb? - English Language Usage Stack Exchange The word "pending" is quite frequently used in English Accordingly, I used to think that "to pend" is a verb, and some of the online English dictionaries tend to agree However, my copy of Oxford
writing style - If prepend is not part of English, why is there no . . . Why there are no words postpend, subpend, sidepend, uppend? As Robusto’s answer says, words are introduced into English by common usage, at least within some group of speakers But one can trace this back further Why do some words come in to common usage in a group, and not others? There are several factors that can cause a word to catch on: They fill a gap in the language They’re easily
Send, sent; end, *ent? - English Language Usage Stack Exchange The past tense of a number of verbs changes from -end to -ent: bend → bent lend → lent rend → rent send → sent spend → spent wend → went However, most do not, notably end Granted, I say “I ent up” (
What is the meaning of the phrase Hold the Pen? Well, I'm in the Singapore office of an American company The folks I've heard this from are Indian, Malay, and Scottish Some googling told me that the State Department uses this phrase to mean that while you may be writing something, the intellectual property and the views belong to the state department By holding the pen, you're merely a drafter This is quite a different meaning from the
What are the antonyms of append and prepend? You'll need to complete a few actions and gain 15 reputation points before being able to upvote Upvoting indicates when questions and answers are useful What's reputation and how do I get it? Instead, you can save this post to reference later
word choice - Do I assign something to me or do I assign it to myself . . . In chatting with a coworker, I asked "Should I assign [the task] to myself " but then I got discombobulated and wondered if it should have been "to me " instead I searched for an answer but didn't find anything that seemed to match this situation So, which is correct and why? Does it have to do with it being a prepositional phrase? Or is it specifically because I am assigning the task to me
Vendor vs. vender in Standard American English The spelling vendor is the standard spelling The New Yorker, as part of its bizarre house style, uses the spelling vender No one else does, besides those trying to emulate The New Yorker’s style Of the 45 examples in COCA, only 17 were actual uses of the spelling vender outside of The New Yorker (compared with over 2000 examples of vendor, a ratio of over 100 to 1) Two were proper names