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Meaning of true north - English Language Usage Stack Exchange True north differs from magnetic north, which varies from place to place and over time due to local magnetic anomalies A magnetic compass almost never shows true north In fact over millions of years, magnetic north wanders considerable and occasionally reverses so that the magnetic north pole has been near the geographic south pole at some periods in the earth's history In the arctic region
In navigation, whats the difference between bearing, heading . . . The notion that "heading tends to imply a vector of movement" is incorrect; as noted in Wikipedia, "Heading is the angle of the vessel, aircraft or vehicle to an object (e g true north)", and angles do not require or imply motion of an object Also as noted in Wikipedia, "In navigation, a vehicle's course is the angle that the intended path of the vehicle makes with a fixed reference object
What is my Nationality: United States of America or American? I think the usual case in the Anglosphere is to consider North and South America separate continents, and so Canadians and Brazilians would be North Americans and South Americans, but it would be rare to combine them as Americans, especially because America and American are tightly associated with the United States
Why does corn mean maize in American English? In British English, "corn" can mean any type of "grain": increasingly not really true today; the en-US usage meaning "maize" is increasingly the meaning (at least without context suggesting the "locally common cereal crop" to paraphrase my dictionary) I assume this is both the availability of sweetcorn and popcorn in addition to the usual cultural invasion factor
Why are the United States often referred to as America? There is one called "North America" and another called "South America", which are sometimes collectively referred to as "the Americas" I think the strange thing is not that people from the USA call themselves "Americans", it is actually more strange that the full official name or an acronym is used so often
Is final n sound reduced nasalized in American English? Everything in this post is true (except perhaps the last paragraph—the vowel nasalisation varies a lot even within American English, and some dialects and speakers only nasalise their vowels very slightly; the nasal itself is more likely to be the main indicator still, I would think) … but to me, a child should most likely have mastered non-complex (coda) clusters like [mb] and [ntʃ] by
meaning - State vs country as nation - English Language Usage . . . The article says that the USA and the UK can be referred to as country while North Korea can only be referred to as state The rationale behind that is country means people with citizen rights + elected government + land while state means only government
grammaticality - Is “might could” a correct construct? - English . . . It's generally true that more educated Southerners tend to avoid this construction, but that's due to a prejudice of perception, not to any inherent inferiority of the use In fact, I doubt whether the most common double modals, "might need to" and "might've used to," would clang in most English speakers' ears
The etymology of the phrase its raining cats and dogs One writer says it comes North European myth, where cats supposedly have great influence on weather and the dog is a symbol of wind; hence the cat denotes heavy rain and the dog strong wind gusts Another suggests the analogy of a raging storm to the hubbub of a cat-and-dog fight Perhaps a more literal meaning is the true source