TLP

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I am an amateur with a love for the written word. English is not my native tongue, but I do have considerable knowledge of it.

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Oct 23	comment	Are all English surnames-made-first-names masculine? @onomatomaniak It is relevant to the case of the Madison name being a recent invention, though. And as such, perhaps not a good example of an exception to the traditional naming practices.
Oct 23	comment	Are all English surnames-made-first-names masculine? @FraserOrr Like I said, unisex names made surnames serve as poor evidence of usage of female names as surnames. Of your list of names, a brief google/wiki lookup showed only 4 names as somewhat uniquely female (Madison, Brooklyn, Lily, Lauren), and 11 definitely unisex. Many of the names clearly had an origin as male names (Addison = "son of adam", Ashley, Aubrey = Albert, Mackenzie).
Oct 23	comment	Are all English surnames-made-first-names masculine? @PeterTaylor Taylor falls into category B, which is to say a unisex name.
Oct 23	comment	Are all English surnames-made-first-names masculine? Very interesting, but my question is if this naming convention is restricted to masculine names only?
Oct 23	comment	Are all English surnames-made-first-names masculine? As such, I do not believe I can accept an answer that relies on the female version of unisex names, names invented in recent years (when naming customs have been made significantly more liberal), and also, quite frankly, surnames which are obscure.
Oct 23	comment	How can I understand “thirty-seconds of a dollar”? I did not claim it was a unit of the imperial measurement system, such as feet, inches or bushels. I said that it was a fraction, and I made an assumption that it was coming from a culture that uses Imperial measurements, because it makes no sense coming from a metric culture.
Oct 23	comment	How can I understand “thirty-seconds of a dollar”? "half a kilo" makes sense. "three and a half thirty-seconds of a pound" makes no sense at all.
Oct 23	comment	Are all English surnames-made-first-names masculine? "not entirely uncommon", you say, but A) those seem like some pretty rare surnames, B) I see that many of the names can be given to boys as well, which makes them completely invalid in any comparison.
Oct 23	revised	Are all English surnames-made-first-names masculine? typo
Oct 23	answered	How can I understand “thirty-seconds of a dollar”?
Oct 23	asked	Are all English surnames-made-first-names masculine?
Oct 22	comment	What's that word to describe “technology becoming invisible over time”? Rather a long time ago, I saw a documentary where they were researching sound effects for cars, such as a clicking turn signal. With today's electronic equipment, there is no longer any natural sound. So they added one. =)
Oct 20	answered	“Advise” vs. “advise that”
Oct 20	comment	Meaning of “to believe the impossible” @Luc1245 You are welcome!
Oct 19	answered	Meaning of “to believe the impossible”
Oct 19	comment	Preposition following “estimated” Is in situ really spelled with a hyphen?
Oct 19	answered	“People” or “the people”
Oct 18	comment	How to abbreviate “and other things”? @FumbleFingers I believe that for the OP, such a distinction does not exist.
Oct 18	comment	How to abbreviate “and other things”? @FumbleFingers What the OP is asking for is not a statement that is all encompassing and complete even for unversed readers, but simply a phrase that is similar to "and other things".
Oct 18	comment	How to abbreviate “and other things”? @tim Yes, you will have to supply a proper description there, as I am not too well versed in human anatomy. =) But the point is to go from the generic, to examples.