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| bio | website | math.ohio-state.edu/~edgar |
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Assuming the existence of ~ or assuming an existence of? Use phrase 1. "Assuming the existence of neutrinos, this device should have detected them." I say THE, even though I assume there is more than one neutrino. |
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Jun 12 |
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Use of the word 'lawmaker' when referring to elected representatives Perhaps someone knew the meaning of "legislature"... |
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Jun 12 |
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Where and why were capital letters first used in headlines? By "cpaitalized" do you mean "Five Forest Fires in Colorado" or "FIVE FOREST FIRES IN COLORADO"? |
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Jun 11 |
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Is “hang” really short for “hang out”? Of course slang varies from place to place. If you have not heard it, maybe it is not current where you are. Or your perhaps you and friends are the wrong age for that slang. |
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Jun 10 |
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Do I capitalize or write out 'first' if I write: “Her birthday was May First.”? To me (American) using 1st instead of first seems strange. |
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Jun 10 |
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Do I capitalize or write out 'first' if I write: “Her birthday was May First.”? If Jane is American, she would say May first. If she is British she may say 1st of May or something. |
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Jun 6 |
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How to interpret polyhedron name “Rhombic Hexecontahedron”? Well, someone thought this "hexeconta" is a prefix meaning 60. |
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Jun 6 |
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God Bless(es??) America Find out about "subjunctive"... |
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Jun 5 |
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Are compound contractions proper grammar? @John: Strange, you write couldna but still you write apostrophe's. Or was that merely an illustration of the nuisance you write about? |
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Jun 3 |
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In baseball, is it proper to pluralize “RBI”? Consider the ERAs of all the players of the team. |
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Jun 2 |
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Can “wet” be used for liquids other than water? The word "wet" is used with a technical meaning in chemistry, I believe. See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wetting or Google "wet chemistry" to try to find out about that. Adding detergent to water results in something wetter than the water alone... |
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Jun 1 |
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Are “w/o”, “w/”, “b/c” common abbreviations? My recommendation: use them only when you lack time or space to write them out fully. |
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May 31 |
awarded | Yearling |
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May 30 |
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What could be the equivalent term in British or Australian English to the American English word “hillbilly”? But (at least in the US) "rustic" could be positive, much more than "hillbilly". |
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May 29 |
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To investigate something new Sometimes, when a comment is deleted, the other comments left behind become incomprehensible. |
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May 29 |
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Is this a passive construction? The subject (you) of "take" is missing. But that is because this is imperative, not because it is passive. |
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May 29 |
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Antonym of “summon” (1) If there are wizards in the real world who do summoning, ask one of them the proper word. (2) If these are only fictional, you can use whatever word you want in your own stories/games ... just explain what it means somehow. |
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May 26 |
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What is the relationship name of my sibling-in-law's sibling to me? Just say "brother-in-law" unless there is some reason that a more precise relationship is needed. |
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May 26 |
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Article before newspaper name And then, what if the name of the newspaper is in another language? .... "I read this in the Diario El Sol" |
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May 25 |
answered | Is the phrase “I just sucked it out of my thumb” used in American English? |
