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I think you are looking for research assistant. If you also did teaching, you were (also) a teaching assistant.

There is also a swash. But this inconsequential answer didn't have thirty characters, so here is some bogus text to please the silly computer.

In America, it is always two cents, not two pence. Only countries that have pounds use the word pence, as far as I know. And those that do use pennies when they are referring to a number of physical c …

The first that clause is an object clause, because it functions as the object of arguing. It is not appositive, because it is simply an object on its own. The second example is not written in proper …

Trop- basically means "turn", and tropism is presumably named after the way e.g. sunflowers turn towards the sun (they do, don't they?). So the most basic adjective would be tropic, "pertaining to tur …

Traditionally, 1b requires a semicolon or full stop: Clean your room. Otherwise I will ground you. The reason is that otherwise is traditionally considered an adverb, and two sentences can tra …

Europeans also call them Indians. Once a name has entered common parlance, even if it later turns out to be illogical, it rarely falls out of use just for that reason. Just like the word turkey for th …

I don't know what's more common in daily speech, but I've heard AC power a lot, and you will often find that on American websites describing computer components and in manuals. I'd not be surprised to …

There is also Hineininterpretierung/Hineininterpretation, but I'm not sure how much this term is used.

I don't know, but could it be related to the older golden boy and golden girl, a successful man and woman, respectively? Quotes from the OED, 2nd edition: 1937 C. Odets (title) The *golden boy. …

I would define racism thus: treating people unfairly based on their race, even though their race is only partly or not at all relevant to the case There is no reason why you couldn't treat the d …

You are correct: it is better to add a comma between a clause and a non-defining participial phrase, i.e. a participial phrase providing some extra information (rather than limiting what the noun refe …

While it is very common, I find this sentence a bit ugly, and slightly incorrect. The noun adjective "viewer"—which I presume it must be—is ugly here, probably because it suggests that the entire noun …

It is not really a matter of being "allowed" to use non-standard grammar: there is no law, as far as I know. It may very well be so that this is part of some dialect. However, non-standard grammar is …

Whose is (originally and now) the genitive of who. From Etymonline: whose: genitive of who; from Old English hwæs, genitive of hwa (see who). In all Indo-European languages that I know, a genitive m …