Why is muscle cramp called a “charley horse”? It is NOT closely associated with baseball today Everyone, basically, who does sports in NA knows and uses this term A Charley horse is an incredibly painful cramp in the lower leg but not at all dangerous You have to stretch out your leg and relax the muscle to have it go away
Can inanimate objects be followed be a possessive apostrophe? I recently received a “Revise amp; Resubmit” decision on a paper I submitted One of the referees has pointed out that the use of a possessive apostrophe following an inanimate object is incorrect
run-down versus rundown - English Language Usage Stack Exchange In The Complete Poems of Anna Akhmatova by Judith Hemschemeyer, we read: In this everyday gray dress, On rundown heels I thought that quot;rundown quot; was a substantive and quot;run-down q
Is there a standard symbol for denoting a chapter in a citation . . . No The standard abbreviations are Ch and Chap …or at least, if there is such a symbol, Unicode doesn’t know about it yet — and Unicode is pretty comprehensive, including characters as diverse as the inverted interrobang ⸘, biohazard sign ☣, and snowman ☃, not to mention the Shavian alphabet and much, much, much more
Correct usage of Ive - English Language Usage Stack Exchange Understandably quot;I've quot; is a very versatile conjunction, however I have found it being used increasingly more as a possessive I think in proper English this is unacceptable, but not so su
When should Mom and Dad be capitalized? - English Language Usage . . . When you are using the word "Dad" to refer to a specific person, it's standing in place of their name, and thus, like their name, would be capitalized When you're talking about dads in general, it's a common noun Say you had a horse named Betsy and were re-writing the sentence to refer to her: The one thing I learned from my horse was that it was good to earn the trust of one's children