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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)
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
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
Changes in English names of people Why is Robert called Bob and John called Jack sometimes? What is the history of or reason for this practice in changing the English names of people?
grammaticality - Is the phrase for free correct? - English Language . . . Sean, above, wrote, "free is just a placeholder for $0 " I disagree, and this is the point The term 'for' must be used with a commodity The use of a commodity, such as 'five dollars', can be correctly phrased, "for five dollars" It's an amount But the term 'free' denotes the ABSENCE of a commodity 'Free' denotes amountlessness
Another idiom for jumping the shark The term jump the shark was coined by Sean Connolly and Jon Hein in 1985, based on their premise that the scene that marks the beginning of the decline of the American television show Happy Days oc
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