Peter Mortensen

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May 30	comment	Are “w/o”, “w/”, “b/c” common abbreviations? Other variations for because observed in the wild are: "cuz", "bc", "cos", "cause", "coz", "b'caz", "bec.", "bcoz" and "bec".
May 10	comment	Using the possessive apostrophe in formal English Anonymous, also consider How to Use Its and It's.
Apr 7	comment	What is the correct way to refer to a web page that is part of the same website? Wikipedia does not use title case, it uses sentence case (reference).
Jan 3	comment	'and to' quagmire @Andrew Leach: yes, that would probably change the meaning, given the context.
Jan 3	comment	'and to' quagmire Feel free to edit if I have made some incorrect statements in the question.
Jan 3	comment	'and to' quagmire The title could be more... inspired!
Feb 9	comment	Is Addenbrooke's site/Site a proper noun? The house standard on Wikipedia is to use sentence casing in section titles; from MOS:HEAD: "The provisions in Article titles (above) generally apply to section headings as well (for example, headings are in sentence case, not title case).". The current content of the Wikipedia article is inconsistent, hence the question.
Dec 27	comment	Are particular seasons proper nouns? @Brett Reynolds: yes, for instance the Wikipedia manual of style states "As the seasons are reversed in the northern and southern hemispheres ..., neutral wording (in early 1990, in the second quarter of 2003, around September) is usually preferable to a "seasonal" reference (summer 1918, spring 1995). Even when the season reference is unambiguous (for instance when a particular location is clearly involved) a date or month may be preferable to a season name ...".
Nov 4	comment	“Documents” or “document” Perhaps the OP was thinking of documentation rather than document.
Sep 16	comment	What is the correct way to pluralize an acronym? ATM: "Noun. ATM (plural ATMs). 1. (banking) Initialism of automated teller machine."
Sep 10	comment	Starting a sentence with “In Winter 2010,” Should "winter" be capitalised?
Sep 10	comment	Grammar analysis of this sentence from a magazine Should it be tagged with "grammaticality"?
Sep 4	comment	Why does American English pluralize certain singular nouns? "reasult" -> "result"
Aug 30	comment	Why are some adjectives placed after a noun? @simchona: this may be historical: The Department became known as Revenue Canada in the 1970s. In the 1990s the department became the Canada Customs and Revenue Agency. In 2003 the department was split into the Canada Revenue Agency and the Canada Border Services Agency with the Minister of Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness taking responsibility for the latter agency. Ref.
Aug 26	comment	Are particular seasons proper nouns? Is the converse true? Never capitalised when not in a title?
Aug 26	comment	Are particular seasons proper nouns? I think this is clear from the other question, "Should the names of seasons be capitalized?". But what about a particular summer, say the one in 2012? Is it "The UEFA European Football Championship is held in Summer 2012" or "The UEFA European Football Championship is held in summer 2012"?
Aug 26	comment	Why are days of the week proper nouns? What are the 4-5 columns in the table? The third seems to be English. Is the first Spanish? And what are the others?
Aug 24	comment	Use of “it” before “sufficeth to say” Yes, suffice it to say is an adverb.
Aug 23	comment	'Questions' vs. 'Concerns' vs. 'Doubts' Related: Can "doubt" sometimes mean "question"?
Jul 30	comment	Does “anything man” exist? I think factotum comes closest, given the context. However Wiktionary says "dated".