2010年9月16日 · "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 …

2011年7月26日 · 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, …

2011年4月24日 · 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 …

2011年4月8日 · 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 …

2015年10月5日 · "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 …

2011年5月16日 · 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, …

2013年5月6日 · 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 …

2010年8月31日 · 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.

2011年5月22日 · Is −9 a smaller number than −8? And is −9 a lower number than −8? What is the difference between lower and smaller here?

2013年4月21日 · Is there a convention for the spelling of the name of the main page of a website? Should it be home page, with a space between the two words; or homepage, all one word?