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I speak UK English with a slight scottish twist
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Nov 17 |
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Why don't Americans write “devor” instead of “devour”? For those interested bl.uk/learning/langlit/changlang/across/languagetimeline.html |
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Nov 17 |
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Why don't Americans write “devor” instead of “devour”? I just checked my copy of the "Oxford Encyclopedia of Language" and English is classified as Indo-European -> Germanic -> West-Germanic. |
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Nov 17 |
answered | Antonym of “recommend” |
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Nov 17 |
awarded | Critic |
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Nov 17 |
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Why don't Americans write “devor” instead of “devour”? English is most certainly NOT a Latin-based language, it's Germanic. Yes it has borrowed from Latin and Latin-based languages (and others) but that's very different. |
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Oct 15 |
answered | Name for a new “ad” entry encompassing buyer requests and supplier offers |
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Oct 15 |
answered | Word for “other people who have the same issue/problem as I have”? |
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Oct 15 |
answered | What is a gentler word than suspended or closed? |
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Oct 11 |
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“Out of the box” — when should I use this phrase? It's common enough that at least one survey said it was the UKs most hated phrase, maybe I should downvote myself. |
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Oct 6 |
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“Out of the box” — when should I use this phrase? Might be a factor of me always working in big data centers or maybe a US/UK thing? Mind you my 15 years with IBM exposed me to enough US jargon. I hear "off the shelf" a lot as well. |
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Oct 6 |
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A word for 'to exist in the same place as something else' For reason, I suspect maths books from years back, I would say "they are coincident" rather than "they coincide". FWIW. |
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Oct 6 |
answered | “Out of the box” — when should I use this phrase? |
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Oct 3 |
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What's a word for the opposite of Accountability? +1 for laissez faire |
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Sep 22 |
answered | Which is correct, “yes, they do” or “yes, they have”? |
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Sep 22 |
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“Software craftsman” as complimentary term for programmer @FumbleFingers I was thinking of "elegant" in the sense that a maths proof is "elegant" when it is a clean simple proof. |
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Sep 22 |
answered | Is this usage of “woo” proper? |
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Sep 22 |
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“Software craftsman” as complimentary term for programmer @FumbleFingers - yes but to me it also carries overtones of both technical skills and, for want of a better term, "art". Good code is technically good and aesthetically pleasing or maybe "elegant" is a better word? |
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Sep 22 |
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Use of “compensate” to mean “help pay cost” or maybe "towards this cost". And "compensate" is not right there. It implies to me more something done in balance of something else. |
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Sep 21 |
answered | What do you call a person who is easily replaced? |
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Sep 21 |
awarded | Commentator |
