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37,300 | 106,950 | 76823_0 | > * The sit of her dress was perfect. > * The sitting of her dress was perfect. > I didn't know that "sit" could be a noun form of the verb "to sit". I've been using "sitting" so far, but I came across "sit" as a noun form in this sentence. I don't know which one is more suitable to use. |
37,301 | 144,028 | 76823_0 | In John Ormsby's 1885 translation of Don Quixote, the word "despatch" is used. Is that the corresponding British spelling for "dispatch" or is it simply an archaic spelling (in both the American and UK English dialects), or is it both (British _and_ archaic)? |
37,302 | 35,611 | 76823_0 | I'm trying to find one general expression that describes all sorts of businesses that _serve you where you are_ as opposed to being a destination, that is, food delivery, electricians, personal trainers, doctors who make house calls, etc. The resulting sentence would look like: > "What is the best _business category_ t... |
37,303 | 50,594 | 76823_0 | 1. The man lives in the same house with a woman but never have sex or desire to have sex. 2. Hey is comfortable with being nude with her and so is she, but not sexual touch or for lust. 3. He cuddles and does things socially together. 4. He sleeps in the same bed with her but again not sexual. 5. He supports her and pr... |
37,304 | 50,591 | 76823_0 | I'm a bit confused about this. They both sound correct to me. * Quite rather weird * Rather quite weird Which of the two is correct? |
37,305 | 35,618 | 76823_0 | The lyrics of the closing theme of the She-Ra cartoon include the line "We have the power, so can you". (Listen to it on YouTube.) I'll grant them their poetic license, but it doesn't sound right to me and I can't quite put my finger on why. Would you say it's ungrammatical? Why? |
37,306 | 93,614 | 76823_0 | Please ignore the factual accuracy of this sentence and focus on the tenses used. > If the Mayans were wrong to end the calendar on Dec. 20, 2012, we'll use > your donation to fund 2013 programming. I’d like to know: 1. if it is correct, and 2. what it would be called. |
37,307 | 130,550 | 76823_0 | I'm a software developer, and as such I often come in contact with situations where I need to name variables related to the following context: > 4 apples for $3 each equals $12 My problem is the word `amount` because it feels as natural to write `amount of items` (4) as `amount each` ($3) or `total amount to pay` ($12)... |
37,308 | 114,103 | 76823_0 | According to Oxford Dictionaries Online, > _finite_ ... **2** _Grammar_ (of a verb form) having a specific tense, > number, and person. > > _non-finite_ ... _Grammar_ (of a verb form) not limited by tense, person, or > number. Modal verbs (can, may, should etc) are always followed by bare infinitives. For example: > We... |
37,309 | 181,415 | 76823_0 | I recently learned there is such a thing as a run-on paragraph. Whenever I write stories my paragraphs become a page or longer at times, so I began to wonder if I make run-on paragraphs. I haven't been able to find much information on it, so I came here. Can someone please explain to me what a run-on paragraph is? |
37,310 | 32,966 | 76823_0 | The plural of "person" is "people". The plural of "people" is "peoples". Person-people-peoples is the only sequence like this that I know of, but I'm looking for another. (The equivalent question is, is there another plural noun which has become a singular countable collective noun?) **EDIT** For those of you that thin... |
37,311 | 51,427 | 76823_0 | Each morning, a colleague of mine greets me with the phrase: > Top of the morning to you! I've tried to figure out what the meaning of this really is and how to properly respond, however there seems to be dozens of interpretations as to what this phrase actually means. Does anyone know what the origin and original mean... |
37,312 | 51,422 | 76823_0 | Today I went sightseeing in my city. After I got home I wrote the diary in English, but I didn't know what to call a place that sells "street food". Should I call it restaurant, cafe or something else? **Street food:**  **Update** From Marcin's answer, I searched each w... |
37,313 | 22,310 | 76823_0 | I want to inquire about fee for Tai Chi course. But, the word "Fee" would not be polite for such martial art. Would there be any alternate word I could use, which is more polite and kind to ask about this. |
37,314 | 22,313 | 76823_0 | I was wondering how this phrase sounds in English: > She is a little bit shy. In my country the people say "a little bit" a lot, and sometimes they use it wrong. I have the impression that in US (or even in other countries where English is spoken), people prefer to be more specific saying "She is shy". Anyway, I don't ... |
37,315 | 189,649 | 76823_0 | I am looking for a word that refers to the state of extreme, deep melancholy mixed with pain, anxiety, and wistfulness; the state in which one feels that their hearts are going to burst with sadness. |
37,316 | 171,451 | 76823_0 | Not that I'm pro/for 'christ out of christmas' but are schoolars thinking about a new word? I mean this past 2013 Christmas season in Los Angeles I didn't see much of that word. [update] chat about xmas joe: I'm so excited happy holidays is coming! jane: what? happy holidays? joe: Yes! happy holidays is the best time o... |
37,317 | 22,318 | 76823_0 | Is there an adjective that means "every two days", i.e. is to a day as _biennial_ is to a year? |
37,318 | 27,790 | 76823_0 | I'm a French-native-speaker. I'm not sure in which cases the French expression _vue de l'esprit_ should be used, or if it should not be used. Is there any general case or rule? For example, I have a blog post title that I'm thinking about in French as _Vue de l'esprit : [a game name]_ , because the post is about a game... |
37,319 | 61,735 | 76823_0 | I have been around on Twitter for awhile and I regularly find people using "Please to retweet this" or "Please to help me", etc. Is this proper English? I do not think prefixing the infinitive form with a 'to' is necessary here at all. |
37,320 | 61,732 | 76823_0 | > **wintry:** characteristic of winter, esp. in feeling or looking very cold > and bleak: "a wintry landscape". > > **summery:** belonging to or characteristic of or occurring in summer; > "summery weather"; What are the words that mean characteristic of spring and autumn, respectively? For example: > a ~~springly~~ la... |
37,321 | 150,994 | 76823_0 | I came across this book > It's Not the Big That Eat the Small...It's the Fast That Eat the Slow and my question is why **eat** is not **eats** ? Thank you very much |
37,322 | 150,995 | 76823_0 | I would like to quote from line 205 to 214 of a particular source code. |
37,323 | 145,085 | 76823_0 | I am reading a book and I came across the sentence below. I am not getting the meaning out of the line. Please guide me. Thanks. > I decided that the most important thing to do was to figure out how to take > a single country off of oil. Edit: Its about Israel, how Israel decided they would move forward when they had n... |
37,324 | 145,083 | 76823_0 | I have to do a presentation about a third world country next week and I started writing down what I am going to say and I am stuck in the introduction! I am speaking Greek and this phrase make sense in Greek but I think it's not right in English! > I want to say that they have nothing to eat and nothing to drink and th... |
37,325 | 104,082 | 76823_0 | According to Merriam-Webster, _threaten_ has the following four meanings: > 1: to utter threats against > > 2a: to give signs or warning of > > 2b: to hang over dangerously > > 3: to announce as intended or possible > > 4: to cause to feel insecure or anxious There is one sentence: > The lecturer's monotonous delivery ... |
37,326 | 104,085 | 76823_0 | One person has a debt to another. The other person runs a debt to the first person, so instead of exchanging money, they **(insert word here)** the debt. The phrase is to **"call it even"**. I'm looking for this, but in verb-form. |
37,327 | 23,955 | 76823_0 | Can sound be considered "blurry?" I have heard of visual things being "blurry." Examples of this include blurry photographs or blurred vision. Is the word "blurry" restricted only to vision? I have a friend who uses the word to refer to indistinct sound. For some reason, this annoys me at an instinctual level. It seems... |
37,328 | 104,089 | 76823_0 | What is the origin of the name "smudge stick"? And why is it considered offensive by some (according to Wikipedia)? |
37,329 | 74,744 | 76823_0 | I was well aware of the different meanings of _rubber_ , not least because there are the same definitions in my mother-tongue. However, while reading a text about differences between British and American English I read the following lines: > Here's something else for Americans to be aware of: did you know that an > _er... |
37,330 | 74,741 | 76823_0 | Are there any English words that mean "an unlikely calamity" in that same way that "miracle" can mean "an unlikely beneficial event"? My thesaurus only provides antonyms of "miracle" that mean "a mundane event" rather than "a horrible event". I'm thinking specifically of multiple unlikely failures occurring simultaneou... |
37,331 | 74,742 | 76823_0 | Is "apocrypha" plural? These are extra-canonical books of the Bible. Is a singular one called an apocryphum or apocryphon or something like that? |
37,332 | 27,246 | 76823_0 | I'm looking for a single word to describe the collection of all letters, scriptures and books specific to a religion, something like _teachings_ but with a stronger emphasis on the written aspect. |
37,333 | 78,894 | 76823_0 | In filling out forms, I'm starting to see a lot of this: > Firstname: xx > > Lastname: yy Is it generally acceptable to join the words like that? Or should we be sticking to: > First Name: xx > > Last Name: yy |
37,334 | 65,928 | 76823_0 | What does "to this effect" in the following sentence mean? (This sentence is in a reply of an application). > However, if you are not successful, we will inform you to this effect. Does this mean, if I failed I will still get informed(by a mail or phone-call) or if I failed, I will have no idea that I have failed alrea... |
37,335 | 145,471 | 76823_0 | I've often seen "how's" used as short for how is - such as "How's your wife feeling?" or "How's the weather where you are?" I'm pretty sure the above is grammatically correct. However, it's also common to use "how's" as short for "how does", such as "How's it feel to be a student?" Is this second usage grammatically co... |
37,336 | 171,763 | 76823_0 | What's the etymology of using 'joint' to mean a place? Like burger joint or juke joint... |
37,337 | 165,959 | 76823_0 | Suppose I have problems * listening and understanding English esp. of non-Indian accent * speaking English fluently How should I tell someone about it using very few words instead of typing a long sentence? |
37,338 | 55,946 | 76823_0 | Consider the following two sentences: > People in North America are **predominantly** English speakers. > > People in North America are **dominantly** English speakers. Merriam-Webster defines _predominantly_ as "for the most part; mainly"; and while it doesn't directly define _dominantly_ , the definition for _dominan... |
37,339 | 55,944 | 76823_0 | I've heard many people say that individuals with Asperger's Syndrome seem to have a distinctive way of speaking the English language. I've heard descriptions such as "The cadence of the words is different", but I've been wondering if there is a more general way of describing this difference. |
37,340 | 55,942 | 76823_0 | Do you consider the following phrase legitimate? > my preference towards exact sciences Is there a more accurate way to say it? |
37,341 | 74,293 | 76823_0 | I am familiar with the idea of a rhetorical question, but are there any criteria to mark or identify one? Can a rhetorical question be recognized alone or does it need surrounding context? It doesn't seem like there is a single syntactic method to distinguish them (the wiki article mentions a 'rhetorical question mark'... |
37,342 | 32,349 | 76823_0 | I came across a sentence while reading Newspaper and I'm wondering what does the sentence mean in this context. This news article completed with the sentence `Five times over!`. What does it mean actually here? **Excerpt from the Newspaper:** > Here’s introducing iDiva: Five Magazines in One that packs in the best of >... |
37,343 | 74,297 | 76823_0 | It seems that "to be like" is an informal phrase for "to say". E.g. > She was so angry, she was like "I'm breaking up with you", and I was like > "I'm sorry", and she was like "Go away". Is this a recent thing? When did "to be like" start to be used to mean "to say"? It doesn't seem to be in any dictionaries (yet) (I m... |
37,344 | 74,295 | 76823_0 | Consider the following scenario: > A woman at a store is shown a dress by a clerk. After a few moments, she > tells the clerk that she would like "to see it in red". > > The clerk would then go and fetch her the same dress but colored red, rather > than whatever he had just shown her. There would be no confusion- the _... |
37,345 | 166,602 | 76823_0 | Has _lackadaisical_ ever been used in literary works? My _Oxford Dictionary of Quotations_ has no quotation that includes this word. Who first used _lackadaisical_ in the 1760s as the OED claims? |
37,346 | 142,853 | 76823_0 | I am working on a rubric to grade a presentation, and I am only allowed 4 very short criteria. After a lot of thinking, the 4 I have chosen are: 1. Organized & Easy to Follow 2. Interesting / Useful 3. Delivery 4. Overall My question isn't really focused on why I chose these criteria (although suggestions would be appr... |
37,347 | 142,855 | 76823_0 | In the North-East of England, where I live, the word **_"howwa"_** is used to mean "that thing". It is pronounced like "shower" and could be used in the following contexts: > Can't you get it to work? Pass the howwa here. or > I was trying to find the pub but it was an hour before I found the howwa! or even about a per... |
37,348 | 166,604 | 76823_0 | Today’s (April 27) _New York Times_ carried a caption,“Clippers **Take to Court** , but in Protest” and the lead-copy: > The players made a statement a day after racially charged remarks attributed > to Donald Sterling, the Clippers’ owner, by wearing their shirts inside out > before playing the Warriors. in its home p... |
37,349 | 159,899 | 76823_0 | If someone did something that made me mad, which is correct to say: * _Did you do it?_ * _have you done it?_ If not, what is the proper situation for saying _Did you do it?_ |
37,350 | 52,996 | 76823_0 | In a biblical passage I am studying, I noticed that the accused was given a short span of time in order to fix the problem he had caused. This idea (granting time to correct the situation) is important for my study and I want to include it in the index. Is there a word (or short two word phrase) that has this meaning? |
37,351 | 16,410 | 76823_0 | Why do we "wear" perfume, and not "apply" it? For example, why do we say "Alice _wore_ her mother's perfume", and not "Alice _applied_ her mother's perfume"? What's your take on this? |
37,352 | 104,620 | 76823_0 | I heard this sentence in a film: > We are one step closer to ending this. I do not know why we have to use "ending" instead of "end". Is "Step to" a phrasal verb? |
37,353 | 57,544 | 76823_0 | I wanted to write about intense fear, something like _abject terror_ , but implying that it strikes you dumb with fear. Am I missing something obvious, or should I just settle for changing the wording to avoid the problem? |
37,354 | 39,871 | 76823_0 | Let us suppose there existed a society that was governed not by people but rather by a comprehensive set of rules, and whereby each person voluntarily followed those rules, and executed punishment on themselves in accordance with those rules if they violated them. What word would describe this form of government? (We c... |
37,355 | 57,542 | 76823_0 | Sometimes, when I am trying to put into a sentence all the commas that should be there, according to the rules, it begins to look like a list of items - a comma after every word. (Edit: and as David Schwartz pointed out, even worse, it _sounds_ badly) For example: > If we saw it as Kris, then, personally, I do not unde... |
37,356 | 93,834 | 76823_0 | My mother language does not have articles, so I still struggle to choose when to use the indefinte and definite article. The other day, I learned: * "The dog is an animal" is acceptable. * "The iron is a metal" is not acceptable. (By _the iron_ , I mean the metal, not the device.) Is that true? If so, could anyone expl... |
37,357 | 33,226 | 76823_0 | Why doesn't the abbreviation of _European Union_ (EU) carry periods with it as the abbreviation of _United States_ (U.S.) does, for example? A brief online search turned up little on the punctuation of EU. If you have a link to a site with a decent explanation, I'd really appreciate that! |
37,358 | 112,435 | 76823_0 | A person's "jack" is the slang for "friends at high places" in the part of the world where I belong to. Thank you. Edit: I split the long question as I was asked to. |
37,359 | 141,508 | 76823_0 | > Altimeter Group provides research and advisory for companies **_,_** > enabling them to pursue new opportunities and business models. Is the comma before _enabling_ necessary and right in the above sentence? |
37,360 | 26,111 | 76823_0 | Consider these sentences: > The ice _was_ thick enough to walk on. > > They _were_ in a hurry. > > There _is_ enough salt in it. > > It _is_ freezing. > > I _am_ right. Are the italicized verbs auxiliary verbs? * * * **Update:** Let me explain why I asked this question. The above sentences are from exercise 6 "Auxiliar... |
37,361 | 26,110 | 76823_0 | At the beginning of sentence is a given. Here are some examples for each word. Should any be capitalised? If not, is there any situations where they should? The word "government" 1. The government raised taxes. 2. Thatcher was in government for a long time. 3. The UK is having problems with its coalition government? Th... |
37,362 | 112,433 | 76823_0 | I have doubt about the correctness of the following rule. If it is correct then is there any reason behind this? **Rule:** > Not all abilities are general. Some abilities happen only once (or a certain > number of times) in a particular situation. In positive sentences, we can > **only** use "was able to" for the speci... |
37,363 | 26,118 | 76823_0 | When is it appropriate to use _annoyed at_? Can I say I'm _annoyed at_ you or should it be _annoyed with_ you? What about _annoyed by_? I've read somewhere that _annoyed with_ is for people and _annoyed at_ is for the rest but I haven't been able to find a link to a supporting document/textbook. |
37,364 | 147,207 | 76823_0 | I have the following sentence in a technical paper: > Recent research has addressed this issue in two important ways: by > developing and improving on automatic algorithms and by exploring human- > guided systems. Though I think this is grammatically correct, it seems like it would sound better with the addition of a c... |
37,365 | 63,806 | 76823_0 | Does present perfect in conditional only mean future situations? Can it be used for hypothetical future? > When I went to Africa, I thought as if I _have_ already been there. > > If you have studied, you would pass the exam. |
37,366 | 187,975 | 76823_0 | What is the word to describe the following situation: There is a sign up warning people not to do something, but it has been up so long I think it no longer applies, but I'm going to follow it anyway. Thanks. |
37,367 | 54,741 | 76823_0 | Has it got anything to do with appearances in the passport photo? |
37,368 | 63,801 | 76823_0 | Do Americans find a date such as 11 Apr 2012 more readable than the ISO format 2012-04-11? The reason I ask is that there are many situations where we do not have access to the locale, and even if we do there are often no locale- sensitive formatting functions that we can use. |
37,369 | 113,220 | 76823_0 | > . . .she tended **Hungarian wounded** returning from the Russian front and > casualties wounded in American bombing raids. (The Telegraph) When there are modifiers before 'wounded,' is it used without ‘the’ to denote 'wounded people'? |
37,370 | 113,223 | 76823_0 | > I'm going to blog about each feature and progress I made in my book? Is that grammatically correct? |
37,371 | 113,222 | 76823_0 | I have a pair of friends who since entering into a relationship have become rather disgustingly effusive and clingy, to the point where people around them have begun referring them an 'it' [singular], or as a (hermaphroditic) single organism. Equivalently, imagine attempting to speak to a sentient coral, or a Portugese... |
37,372 | 113,225 | 76823_0 | Is this usage of "to have difficulty with" ok? > I've been having some difficulty with reading the books that I decide to > read. A Google search suggested that the "with" may perhaps be dropped, but I'd prefer to keep it if it is ok. A noun after "having difficulty with" seems more clearly ok, like in "I'm having diff... |
37,373 | 63,808 | 76823_0 | I wrote the following sentences: > Eyed closed, he imagined the moment disintegrating, returning to the stars, > and continue existing there for eternity. > > Eyed closed, he imagined the moment disintegrating, and returning to the > stars to continue existing there for eternity. Now, I'm not sure if I should say _cont... |
37,374 | 147,901 | 76823_0 | I think "Until the 1990s, no one had known the fact." is grammatically true. Is the other one using the past tense is acceptabe? Or it is also true? Or it is not grammatically true? |
37,375 | 147,903 | 76823_0 | Would it be: If I had only said, "I love you."... or If I had only said, "I love you"... or even If I had only said, "I love you,"... Basically, the ellipsis would represent someone trailing off. For example, the person might have wanted to say: If I had only said, "I love you," he wouldn't have run off. Or something l... |
37,376 | 147,902 | 76823_0 | I recently read that the phrase "Blood is thicker than water" originally derived from the phrase "the blood of the covenant is thicker than the water of the womb", implying that the ordinary meaning is the opposite of the original intention. However my problem with this is that I can't find any references to this suppo... |
37,377 | 108,111 | 76823_0 | There is an sentence in a document: > You can seed the arguments with an array of args, but this is only used > internally How to understand the word _seed_? Does the sentence mean: > You can pass an array of args as the arguments of the function |
37,378 | 182,334 | 76823_0 | For lack of a better understanding, I'm going to call the following _chaining_ : > 10011111 in binary is 237 in octal is 159 in decimal is 9F in hexadecimal While I understand the sentence and its structure, I'm curious as to 1. Whether it's a grammatically correct sentence structure 2. If (1), what's it called? Is thi... |
37,379 | 37,446 | 76823_0 | What can be the word for "inner protected world"? I want to use for this title sentence: > A guy in his **inner protected world** It's some sort of mental sanctum. I want to use it in a positive sense. In my local language we call it _cossetto_ , the same as when a worm converts itself into butterfly. In my local langu... |
37,380 | 138,172 | 76823_0 | Some people quite frequently use "Hmmm" in their emails and messages. What does this mean? Does it mean they are annoyed? |
37,381 | 138,173 | 76823_0 | I listen to BBC Radio 4 a fair bit. They pretty much always use "woman" as opposed to "female" - like "a woman pilot". To me this just sounds completely wrong, and most stuff I can find online about it seems to agree with me. My first thought was that there might be a gender equality reason for saying "woman" (Radio 4 ... |
37,382 | 79,854 | 76823_0 | Today’s (Aug 28) Washington Post carries the article titled, “ _Red meat_ on the menu as convention kicks off” followed by the following sentence. "GOP delegates are scheduled to take the vote that will formally settle their party's long primary battle, although there were signs of the un-mended rift between Romney's b... |
37,383 | 138,171 | 76823_0 | Just confused about something. If person A asks for some suggestions to person B, C and D via email. Now one of three persons say C respond over the email with very detailed reply having some suggestions (some of them may be relevant and some maybe not). Now person A who has asked the question originally reply by just ... |
37,384 | 79,852 | 76823_0 | I accept **study about** where study is a noun ("He conducted a study about changes in population"), but I saw this construct in a local newspaper article and it struck me as odd. Here, **study** is a verb. Is this actually acceptable or is it just a regional variation that has mistakenly made its way into print? > Mor... |
37,385 | 138,174 | 76823_0 | I always find it difficult to discuss the meaning of a word because I don't really have a definite meaning of _word_ in my head. _Cook_ refers to the verb (to cook) but it can also refer to the noun (a cook). Would you say _cook_ is one word with multiple meanings or that the verb and the noun are separate words? Is a ... |
37,386 | 138,175 | 76823_0 | Is the collocation "almost exactly" grammatical, when one is trying to express that something is almost at the edge of being _exact_? E.g.: > ...and it's almost exactly like... |
37,387 | 3,423 | 76823_0 | On a Wiki-walk the other day, I stumbled across the movie poster for _Devil._ The tagline on the poster is: > Five strangers trapped. **One of them is not what they seem.** The writer was obviously using a singular "they" to avoid specifying the gender of the Mole, so as not to give away part of the plot. Sometimes sin... |
37,388 | 84,763 | 76823_0 | Some examples of this _might_ be Standard American English (though this may still be tied to geography) or, more likely, Received Pronunciation. The speaker's language doesn't have to be English, of course. Basically, the speaker's accent isn't discernible or particular to some region. It may be that the speaker has a ... |
37,389 | 75,167 | 76823_0 | The title sucks, I know... Anyway: As part of a game I'm making, one of the buildings decreases the time it takes to build other things. Like so: At level 0: Full time At level 1: Full time / 2 At level 2: Full time / 3 At level 3: Full time / 4 ... So basically, the construction time is inversely proportional to this ... |
37,390 | 84,766 | 76823_0 | I was told I misused the word _respective_ in the sentence 'If bilingual, please list the respective languages.' My understanding is that the word points to the prior mentioned subjects. Here's a definition: > **respective** _adjective_ [ attrib. ] belonging or relating separately to > each of two or more people or thi... |
37,391 | 3,424 | 76823_0 | I've seen the word _Succonded_ used on several websites, but can't find a definition anywhere. I believe it may have to do with "being assigned to". Can anybody point me to a dictionary definition - nothing seems to surface! Examples phrases off Google search: > The war came along, Marconi was succonded to the effort, ... |
37,392 | 70,533 | 76823_0 | Assume there is original source text: > This restaurant is amazing with "delicious lasagna" and great service. Make > sure you go 6-7pm for the quietest times. I want to quote _"delicious lasagna"_ but not sure how to handle the outer double quotes. If I was quoting more than just that quotation (e.g. _is amazing with ... |
37,393 | 167,553 | 76823_0 | I think it is a serious conversation which has become boring. Am I right? |
37,394 | 167,554 | 76823_0 | what's the meaning of "naturally replenished"? e.g. El Paso receives its water supply from a set of aquifers as well as from the Rio Grande, but the supply, upon which soils used for agriculture are also dependent, **is not being naturally replenished** |
37,395 | 89,897 | 76823_0 | Could you tell me which of these phrases is grammatically correct — "anything but" or "anything except"? If the use depends on context, what are the instances when each must be preferred? |
37,396 | 2,005 | 76823_0 | Do _in future_ and _in the future_ imply different meanings? If so, using which one is grammatically correct? |
37,397 | 167,558 | 76823_0 | I'm writing a ghost story, and (in an admittedly well worn trope) a child ghost is looking for its mother; but how would a 17th century child affectionately refer to its mother? In short, what would the 17th century version of "mummy" be? |
37,398 | 4,855 | 76823_0 | What's the difference between these two phrases? |
37,399 | 2,009 | 76823_0 | The following sentence is the context. > Accordingly, in the next few chapters, which deal specifically with the > tags, we’ll spend a lot more time on the OGNL expression language. On to > chapter 6! Your answers or comments are appreciated! |
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