Renumeration vs Remuneration (reimbursed financially), which is correct? According to the OED renumeration remuneration are interchangeable So too are the associated verbs - renumerate remunerate However, some commentators have strong feelings about renumeration being used with its first-cited meaning (i e remuneration, see below) " to be avoided at all costs is the metathesized form renumeration " (R W Burchfield New Fowler's Mod Eng Usage (1996) 666
phonetics - English words ending with -enk -eng - English Language . . . 3 Mostly because -eng, -enk didn’t survive Middle English We don’t have native words in -eng, -enk because of a regular sound-change that any such words underwent in their evolution from Old English to Middle English to Modern English For example, Old English had a verb lengen meaning to lengthen (transitively) or to linger (intransitively)
pronouns - Is it ever correct to use “the both of them,” or is it . . . It does not seem to be an archaic usage The English Dialect Dictionary, from 1898, characterizes it as var dial uses in Irel and Eng And Ngrams shows that its usage started increasing gradually around 1900, and has increased greatly since 2000 And the book English for Everybody, by G A Miller (1924; Boston, MA) says: Do not say:— The both of them are useful, Say:— Both of them are
Is stife a name for smoking cooking oil? A close, suffocating atmosphere, a choking vapour or smoke, a smoky sulphurous smell (Dmf s Sc 1825 Jam ; Rxb 1923 Watson W -B ; s Sc 1971) Also in n Eng dial This would seem to apply to smoking cooking oil In other words, something that stifles; the word is apparently a back formation thereof OED attests it as far back as 1636