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etymology - What is the origin of stat? - English Language Usage . . . The word stat is an abbreviation of the Latin word statim, which has the meaning "instantly immediately" This usage was then generalized beyond the domain of prescriptions to refer to any action that needed to be taken immediately
When should ‘state’ be capitalised? - English Language Usage . . . U S style guides From [Merriam-]Webster's Standard American Style Manual (19885): Words designating global, national, regional, or local political divisions are capitalized when they are essential elements of specific names
Status vs. state - English Language Usage Stack Exchange Stack Exchange Network Stack Exchange network consists of 183 Q A communities including Stack Overflow, the largest, most trusted online community for developers to learn, share their knowledge, and build their careers
What is the origin of the suffixes statin and medin? -stat is a very common suffix in medicine -Medin comes from the same rood as mediate, the Latin word mediāre (past participle: mediātus), to be in the middle, to intercede, + -in (it's also a peptide ) A hormone which intercedes (or up-regulates) something else can have the suffix -medin Somatomedins are hormones that promote cell growth in
What is a state of being? - English Language Usage Stack Exchange Stack Exchange Network Stack Exchange network consists of 183 Q A communities including Stack Overflow, the largest, most trusted online community for developers to learn, share their knowledge, and build their careers
When is it OK to start a sentence with But? [duplicate] Not beginning a sentence with "but" is a rule of thumb This is not a hard and fast rule Rather, it's a simple guideline you should apply to avoid risking a common grammatical mistake, namely: using a sentence fragment
What is the plural form of status? - English Language Usage Stack . . . What is the plural form of "status"? I agree that today a similar question would be considered off-topic and probably migrated to ELL but the risk with closing under researched questions is that one day, not today, not tomorrow but maybe in six months time or in five years, this page will be deleted
Where does ta! come from? - English Language Usage Stack Exchange When a term originates in northern English dialects as "ta" appears to, I often begin by looking at nordic languages as much of northern England was conquered by the Vikings and the parts of the language endure both in words and in the overall sound - if you listen the geordie accent has a definite scandinavian cadence to it