
"More Bored" Vs "Boreder" - English Language & Usage Stack Exchange
"Boreder" might be considered "legal" according to some guidelines, but is to be avoided because of the likely confusion with "border".
meaning - When someone tells you, "you're a trip" - English Language ...
Apr 27, 2024 · When I was having a conversation with someone and they looked at me and said "Man, You're a trip" was it referring to when I tripped over a word? Or didn't use the word …
capitalization - To capitalize or not to capitalize "southern ...
Dec 28, 2017 · It only loosely defines a region of California and its border is not officially defined either. However, I was recently advised by someone who I consider to be educated to capitalize "southern" …
single word requests - What is this decoration called that's found ...
Jul 1, 2019 · What is this decoration called that's found around ceilings and doors, as shown in the images below?
adjectives - East Coast, East coast, or east coast? - English Language ...
Apr 29, 2015 · The 'Home Counties' is the collective name given to the six counties which border London, but I am always at a loss as to whether to apply capitals.I think I will compose a question on …
Different name for the strip of holey paper from a spiral notebook
Mar 15, 2021 · In the print industry, selvage is the excess area of a printed or perforated sheet of any material, such as the white border area of a sheet of stamps or the wide margins of an engraving etc.
Should the words "city"/"state"/"province" be capitalized (if not ...
When referring to an entity like a government body, should it be capitalized if referring to is by classification(?). E.g., if I write: The City of New York requires us to get a building permit.
In what region is "thou", etc. used in dialect?
May 14, 2011 · I grew up in West Lancashire (near the Yorkshire border), and pretty well every one of my parents generation used thee, thou, thy and thine. The first three were sometimes combined into …
What do you call the interconnecting bits of a puzzle piece in English?
Hi Shree! - every single jigsaw puzzle (since perhaps 1995, I'm not sure) is made using software. The only engineers working in "jigsaw construction" are, indeed, programmers. Other than a handful of …
'the USA' vs. 'the US' - English Language & Usage Stack Exchange
Mar 21, 2014 · Here is an interesting discussion of US versus U.S. versus USA versus U.S.A. from Wikipedia: Manual of Style: In American and Canadian English, U.S. (with periods) is the dominant …