What is the correct pronunciation of Hele? - English Language Usage . . . I’ve always wondered what the correct or considered correct pronunciation of the old Saxon word hele is The Oxford English Dictionary states it should be pronounced as hiːl and that’s what I’ve always used – hele Pronunciation: hiːl To hide, conceal; to keep secret
orthography - Is there a rule for “‑ance” vs. “‑ence”? - English . . . @mickeyf: I guess you both need to agree on the definition of "rules" It sounds to me that mickeyf is talking about prescriptive rules, which are applied at some point in the middle of the life of a language, and you are talking about rules in the sense of structured grammar that all language speakers must necessarily have
Why do eleven and twelve get unique words and not end in -teen? In short, why is it not oneteen and twoteen, and we start at thirteen in English? In another thread, I supposed that despite that fact that people have ten fingers, amounts of items leading up to and including twelve were more common because twelve is more easily divisible evenly by two, three, four, and six
For a deceased person, do we use the late or late? The usage is typically "the late "I haven't heard it used without a determiner Here are some quotations from the OED's definition of "late" (III 2 a(a)) showing this usage is typical and well-attested (entries with "a" or "my" instead of "the" removed
What is the correct pronunciation of “regex”? On page 27 of Mastering Regular Expressions, Jeffrey Friedl states: Instead, I normally use "regex " It just rolls right off the tongue ("it rhymes with "FedEx," with a hard g sound like "regular" and not a soft one like in "Regina") and it is amenable to a variety of uses like "when you regex ," "budding regexers," and even "regexification "
What is the correct pronunciation of SQLite? The main bolded part of this answer gets wrong the main subtlty: the creator makes it clear that the ending is "ite", as in rocks like "granite", not "Lite" like light