What is the legal meaning of in dicta? - English Language Usage . . . In dicta in a legal context is most likely a short version of in obiter dicta, which in turn is a technical term with a very long history; lawyers would be reluctant to substitute another term for it, as none can capture all its implications As a side note is as good as any phrase of everyday English can be in approximating its meaning
meaning - What does the word dicta (dita?) mean in the song Whos . . . I assume 'dicta' is short for 'dictator' - meaning she's telling guys what to do Someone from Barbados could confirm whether it's Bajan creole And it's 'disco diva' which is the same context But electronic music generally has an ambiguous drugs meaning - 'disco diva', addiction, adrenaline, baby, love, and so on
meaning - English Language Usage Stack Exchange Dictionary definitions of all three are very similar, typically something like: a pithy observation which contains a general truth But the Wikipedia entries for each are quite different Are these
Capitalisation after colon in British English From the BBC News website: Truss: Ground should have been laid for tax cuts Shouldn't the first letter after the colon be lowercase? According to Grammarly: In British English, the first letter
word usage - English Language Usage Stack Exchange I use Cambridge online dictionary as my reference In this dictionary, the explanations say: dictator: (disapproving) a leader who has complete power in a country and has not been elected by the pe
etymology - English Language Usage Stack Exchange A Physics SE question had me reading up on D-branes on Wikipedia, where I found the following sentence in the section on black holes: The concept of black hole entropy poses some interesting conun
single word requests - What’s the English for “democrature”, a . . . The French term democrature (from democra tie + dicta ture) is defined as: Dictature déguisée en démocratie par l’organisation d’élections non libres, contrôlées et ou frauduleuses Par extension, tout système visant à contrôler des élections, et y parvenant That is: (Dictatorship disguised as a democracy by the organization of non-free, controlled and or fraudulent elections
etymology - Where on Earth is penguin from? - English Language . . . Willughby calls it Penguin nautis nostratibus dicta quae Grofugel Hoieri esse videtur ; Bartholine calls it Avis Garfahl ; Clusius, Anser Magellanicus ; Wormius, Anser Magellanicus Penguin ; and Ray, simply, Penguin It feeds on sea-fish, and on many of the insects and small animals that frequent the shores