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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 . . . There are no special rules for capitalizing the word "state" in ordinary, non-technical English It should be capitalized when at the start of a sentence, or when it is part of a proper noun The state (3) of affairs is that the State of Washington (proper noun) is a state (2) within the sovereign state (1) known as The United States of America (proper noun)
Status vs. state - English Language Usage Stack Exchange Can anyone explain what the difference between status and state is when I talk about the condition or situation of an object? Here's what I got from Longman English Dictionary status: a situati
Is there a comma after the name of a province state The latest online (subscription-based) version of the Associated Press Stylebook says this: PUNCTUATION: Place one comma between the city and the state name, and another comma after the state name, unless ending a sentence or indicating a dateline: He was traveling from Nashville, Tennessee, to Austin, Texas, en route to his home in Albuquerque, New Mexico She said Cook County, Illinois, was
grammaticality - Which is correct: the below information or the . . . As a preposition, "below" would be written after "information" as a stranded preposition While typically prepositions would precede the noun, stranded prepositions can occur "in interrogative or relative clauses, where the interrogative or relative pronoun that is the preposition's complement is moved to the start" We see such a stranded preposition in the case of "the information below
What are: province, territory, protectorate, state. . . ? There are several questions in this question I don't know if there is a specific term for these words I'll say "region words" for now As for a list, I can add barony canton city commissary county department division district dominion duchy earldom empire governorate intendancy kingdom municipality parish prefecture principality province region shire state territory town township village
What does the phrase Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish mean? It was Steve Jobs's ending comment in the Stanford Commencement in 2005, and Jobs mentioned: Stay Hungry Stay Foolish What does this phrase mean? I understand this may also seem philosophical
Is it acceptable to start a sentence with “however”? I think this is a question of elegance, rather than correctness Starting a sentence with "however" works fine - but in every case I've encountered, putting it in the middle adds punch Take the example from Edward Tanguay's answer, "However, I don't give a damn" and rephrase it to "I do not, however, give a damn " That sounds a lot more interesting to my ears