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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
Meaning of bearing - English Language Usage Stack Exchange From Wiktionary: bearing (n , pl bearings) 1 A mechanical device that supports another part and or reduces friction 2 (nautical) The horizontal angle between the direction of an object and that of true north; >subject to variation and deviation when taken by a magnetic compass 3 Relevance; a relationship or connection " That has no bearing on this issue " 4 One's posture, demeanor, or
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
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
dialects - In what ways is Appalachian speech closer to Elizabethan . . . This is, of course, true of the dialects Barton refers to and explains why, for instance multiple negation - constructions such as "I ain't done nothing" - are perfectly acceptable in Shakespearean English and modern dialects, but not in contemporary Standard English