Vendor vs. vender in Standard American English The spelling vendor is the standard spelling The New Yorker, as part of its bizarre house style, uses the spelling vender No one else does, besides those trying to emulate The New Yorker’s style Of the 45 examples in COCA, only 17 were actual uses of the spelling vender outside of The New Yorker (compared with over 2000 examples of vendor, a ratio of over 100 to 1) Two were proper names
The history of “to see say” better known as “voir dire” Fans of the American TV show, Law amp; Order, may be familiar with the procedure called voir dire, whereby lawyers interrogate would-be-members of the jury in order to select jurors who will be
What does gotcha mean? - English Language Usage Stack Exchange Gotcha actually has several meanings All of them can be derived from the phrase of which this is a phonetic spelling, namely " [I have] got you" Literally, from the sense of got = "caught, obtained", it means "I've caught you" As in, you were falling, and I caught you, or you were running, and I grabbed you It's a short step from the benign type of caught to the red-handed type of caught
Thru vs. through - English Language Usage Stack Exchange Slang is “very informal usage in vocabulary and idiom that is characteristically more metaphorical, playful, elliptical, vivid, and ephemeral than ordinary language” Since thru is the exact same word as through, it cannot possibly be considered slang Spelling is always an approximation anyway; spoken language is primary Now, if you and your friends used bazinga to mean "through", that
Commitment vs. dedication - English Language Usage Stack Exchange The only way to understand the difference between synonyms such as commitment and dedication is to find the origin of the words and their current usage commit means to consign, to pledge, to engage dedicate means to set apart, to devote, to offer something in testimony of respect dedication holds more associations to honor, higher spiritual or long lasting values than commitment In that sense
phrase requests - A word for a company that provides a service . . . 1 I am surprised to not see vendor as an existing answer, especially since I see it regularly used in business contexts in this sense AHD: vendor, also vender n 2 One that provides products or services to a business for a fee Macmillan: vendor NOUN [COUNTABLE] FORMAL a company or person that sells a particular product or service