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I speak UK English with a slight scottish twist

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Dec 12	answered	What is the origin of the phrase “Top of the morning to you”?
Dec 11	answered	Usage of the definite articles with personal names
Dec 3	comment	Word for inaccessible neighbour of a node in a graph Maybe he means a directed graph? + 1 for nontraversible
Nov 30	revised	Can you find a noun for the word “diminish”? added 43 characters in body
Nov 30	answered	Can you find a noun for the word “diminish”?
Nov 30	comment	Can a word that sounds the same as the way it is spelt be an initialism and an acronym? Doh! (slaps head).
Nov 30	comment	Can a word that sounds the same as the way it is spelt be an initialism and an acronym? Context and local practice are the key. The software product CICS is pronounced "kicks" in the UK, spelled out as C.I.C.S in the US and pronounced as "cheeks" in Italy for example.
Nov 30	comment	Difference between “spicy” and “hot” +1 onomatomaniak. My Pocket OED defines piquant as "agreeably pungent, stimulating". I doubt anyone would apply that to a Thai red curry or a phal. "Hot ..(of pepper &c.) pungent" - note the lack of "agreeably". Note also that Scoville gives Scoville Heat Units so that rather argues against the wikipedia article.
Nov 29	comment	Is “A Project Guide to UX Design” correct grammar? I'm not up to date with UX and hadn't appreciated that "UX design" is an accepted term. I'm more used to terms like "user-centric design". Since it's a book for a target market I accept that the target market's ability to resolve the terms trumps my parsing of it. Since experience can be either a noun or a verb I find it's positioning sub-optimal in general terms.
Nov 29	answered	Is “A Project Guide to UX Design” correct grammar?
Nov 29	comment	What do you call the sound produced when baying? And it's quite a specific sound as well. I would not say that bay is a subtype of bark. I read barking primarily as a warning/aggressive sound whereas baying is an excited encouragement to the pack.
Nov 29	comment	Present perfect continuous and “for” Only if you use "knowing" in the biblical sense.
Nov 29	comment	A science-verb? Sciencing? "Verbing weirds language" Calvin & Hobbes
Nov 29	comment	When to use inverted word-order like “great an option”? Possibly also OP missed an "an" -- i.e. it was "That is great as an option". I can visualize that for example in the context of building a menu.
Nov 26	answered	“The world is not dangerous because of those who do harm but because of those who look at it without doing anything”
Nov 26	answered	Word for the product of a challenge
Nov 24	comment	Is there such a term as “dinner box”? Yes to all the above. Thinking about times I've done overnight support etc I think I would just say something like "I brought my own dinner/tea" rather than any specific term.
Nov 24	answered	What word describes people who attack those doing the same thing as them?
Nov 24	answered	Is there such a term as “dinner box”?
Nov 24	comment	Would “Greetings” be a better word to greet someone any time than the word “Hello”? Yes, or "Good afternoon/evening". I would be guided by local idiom.