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pronunciation - Why is Sean pronounced Shawn? - English Language . . . Sean (written "Seán" or "Séan" in Irish) is a Hibernization of the English name "John"; that is, it's a transliteration of "John" into a form which can be pronounced in Irish and written with the Irish alphabet (which nowadays is simply a version of the Roman alphabet)
meaning - English Language Usage Stack Exchange Citizens of the USA naturally refer to themselves as Americans and refer to the country as America When speaking to a person from Canada, he argued that it was incorrect to call the country Ameri
You can contact John, Jane or me (myself) for more information Me Myself is reflexive: it denotes that the person (me) is doing something to that person (myself) and no other It's not correct to use a reflexive pronoun unless the recipient of the action is the person doing that action You can't mix you with myself You can talk to me I can talk to myself
Etymology of banjax - English Language Usage Stack Exchange Here's what " banjax " means - Banjax verb INFORMAL ruin, incapacitate, or break He banjaxed his knee in the sixth game of the season Basic research showed that it comes from the 1930s - 1930s: originally Anglo-Irish, of unknown origin (From Lexico) Merriam Webster gives a more specific "first known use" - 1939 However, it says: Banjax: history and etymology: origin unknown And Etymonline
Meaning of the proverb: No man is an island entire of itself Ok, first of all, "No man is an Island, entire on itself" is not a proverb! It is a poem by John Donne, follow this link for the full poem Secondly, what you are asking about is a "Quote", when you take a small part of a speech or text and use it to emphasize a point fact or convey a message, it is called a quote In the case of your question John Donne's poem ' No Man is an Island ' What
Why is dark an adverb in dark blue? - English Language Usage . . . Thanks for the discussion It is interesting to read how the discussion is geared towards the possible explanations of the usage of dark as an adverb I've checked several dictionaries before starting this post Dark is NOT an adverb If dark is not an adverb, how and why can it be used as an adverb? In this case, what is wrong to have dark as an adjective in the sentence?
Past due or passed due - English Language Usage Stack Exchange I know that "past due" stamped on a bill is accepted, however I believe it should be "passed due" Does this mean that "past due" is vernacularly correct and "passed due" is grammatically correct?
When should Mom and Dad be capitalized? - English Language Usage . . . When you are using the word "Dad" to refer to a specific person, it's standing in place of their name, and thus, like their name, would be capitalized When you're talking about dads in general, it's a common noun Say you had a horse named Betsy and were re-writing the sentence to refer to her: The one thing I learned from my horse was that it was good to earn the trust of one's children