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- Ladys Ladies or ladies - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
This has puzzled me for some time What is the possessive plural for of lady? The lady's shoes? The ladies' shoes? Also, which for of lady do you use when addressing more than one female? Good
- Origin of cream of the crop - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
Where does the saying cream of the crop come from? I know it means the best of the lot but I couldn't find anything on how it came to be
- 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
- 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
- What is the correct pronunciation of the word solder?
This doesn't come from a dictionary, but I had a relative who spent most of his free designing clever circuits (from the 1920s onwards) He always told me that the correct British pronunciation was "sodder", but that over the years it had started to be pronounced "solder" - which he believed was to avoid the embarrassment of a word that could be misinterpreted as being related to sodomy when
- punctuation - Ending a sentence with ?! or !? - English Language . . .
When ending a sentence with a ? and a !, is there a rule which one comes first? That is, ?! or !?? If either is okay, are they interchangeable, or for difference circumstances?
- Which term is correct — Afghan or Afghani?
I was talking with a friend who told me that Afghani is an offensive term for someone from Afghanistan, and that I should use Afghan instead Is Afghani actually an offensive term?
- prefixes - When is the prefix non- used vs un-? - English Language . . .
"Un-" is defined as "a prefix meaning 'not,' freely used as an English formative, giving negative or opposite force in adjectives and their derivative adverbs and nouns and less freely used in certain other nouns " "Non-" is defined as "a prefix meaning 'not,' freely used as an English formative, usually with a simple negative force as implying mere negation or absence of something (rather
- capitalization - Which words in a title should be capitalized . . .
Are there any concrete rules that say which words (parts of speech) in a title should start with a capital letter? What would be a correct capitalization for the title of this question?
- 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
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