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- Object moved - answers. microsoft. com
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- Lunch vs. dinner vs. supper — times and meanings?
There's actually quite a bit of variation in different regions of the US As I said, it's quite common to hear Dinner as the noontime meal in many areas of the American South I've noticed that there's even a split in Texas where some regions use Lunch Dinner and others use Dinner Supper These differences have tended to mix up and get confused as people from different regions have mixed, and
- single word requests - Weekly, Daily, Hourly --- Minutely. . . ? - English . . .
"Hourly," "daily," "monthly," "weekly," and "yearly" suggest a consistent approach to creating adverbial forms of time measurements, but the form breaks down both in smaller time units ("secondly," "minutely"—perhaps because of the danger of confusion with other meanings of those words) and in larger ones ("decadely," "centurily," "millenniumly"—perhaps because until recently events
- Seek vs. search - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
I've been wondering, what is the difference between seek and search? When should one be preferred over the other?
- What is the origin of shorthand for with - gt; w ?
CyberDefinitions gives a plausible explanation: Although its origin is contested, w has been used at least since the rise of the fast-food industry in the 1950s As a form of shorthand to save time when writing down food orders, waiters replaced the words "with" and "without" with the abbreviations w and w o Since that time, the use of w as an abbreviation of "with" has become much more
- vocabulary - Word to describe everyday things - English Language . . .
Is there any one word which can describe everyday things? By this, I mean things we commonly regard as things most people do every day, like taking a shower, brushing your teeth, getting dressed,
- I use to, or I used to - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
As reported by the NOAD in a note about the usage of used: There is sometimes confusion over whether to use the form used to or use to, which has arisen largely because the pronunciation is the same in both cases Except in negatives and questions, the correct form is used to: we used to go to the movies all the time (not we use to go to the movies) However, in negatives and questions using
- Meaning and origin of if you catch my drift
What does the expression if you catch my drift mean? Where does it originate? I've heard it in the context to signify something like if you know what I mean
- that + would = thatd? - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
Is "that'd" an appropriate contraction of "that" and "would"? I say it, but I'm not sure if it's a legitimate contraction in written form
- Joness or Jones? - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
Pronunciation is indeed the key: Dialects differ even though the "grammar" of this issue strongly favors the inclusion (and pronunciation) of the possessive s on any singular noun, whether it ends in s (or z) or not So: "Jones's" and "Horowitz's" but "the Joneses' house" and "the Horowitzes' house" (because they already have the fricative plural ending--which is not the case for "children's
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