- Who changed the way vacumn was spelled 40 years ago?
vacuum: 725,895 matches; earliest confirmed match from the Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser (July 10, 1803): The walls of the New Bridge are already raised nearly five feet, and are 24 feet asunder, which vacuum will be filled by a solid mound ; and the span of the Arch likewise measures 24 feet
- Electronic vs. electric - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
A simple vacuum tube, a triode, with its heated cathode Source As expected with an insulator, electrons cannot move in vacuum, there is no electric current, the impatient electrons must stay on their wire! However, in a vacuum tube there is a way to transfer more energy to the heated electrons packed on the cathode
- word choice - Opposite to or opposite? - English Language Usage . . .
For this specific scenario, the usage of "opposite to" and "opposite" is indistinguishable in resulting meaning
- Origin of “give a damn about” - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
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- abbreviations - What do CI, CIM, CID, CIB mean? - English Language . . .
I was talking to a friend about a girl, and he mentioned that “She can pretty much CI anything, CIB, CIM or CID ” I’m wondering what these mean The context was sexual experience Sorry if I missed
- prepositions - When should I use in or on? - English Language . . .
I have a story about the "on the bus" I read somewhere (or someone explained to me) that back in the day buses were open, so that one wasn't inside the bus per se, but rather on the top of the bus
- Origin of the saying “happy wife, happy life”
The adage 'happy wife, happy life' could be said to have appeared at least as early as 1903, in the final verse of a choice bit of doggerel titled "The Work and Wages Party", where the parallel and rhyming phrases might as well have been no more than a congeries, rather than expressing causality:
- Why are there 3 different ways to pronounce oo?
Phonetics of the "oo" sounds I think there are 6 pronunciations of "oo" as a digraph As other people have mentioned, it can also represent two vowels in hiatus, as in "cooperate" or "zoology"
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