Does yar (or yarr or yargh) in Pirate English imply an affirmative? A frequent hedge is arr, but the variations yar, yarr, and yargh are also quite common Is there a distinction in meaning between arr and the yar variants, or are these simply different spellings of the same exclamation? For instance, is yar a contraction of yes and arr, therefore implying an affirmation or agreement?
Which is it: 1½ years old or 1½ year old? [duplicate] It would come much more naturally to a native speaker to say not "That man is a 50-year-old" [note also the hyphenation here] but "That is a 50-year-old man"; similarly, not "That kid is a one-and-a-half-year-old today" [a construction I have never heard anyone use when referring to half years as part of someone's age], but "That is a one-and-a-half-year-old kid" (omitting the 'today'), or
What is the difference between in this year and this year? You've helped us with our thesis statements in this year You've helped us with our thesis statements this year Both sentences have the same meaning and are both fine grammatically, but by convention in is not usually used to refer to the current year, and will sound strange to native speakers You should use sentence 2 In is usually used for a year in the past or the future, followed by a
Which is correct — a year or an year? [duplicate] The word year when pronounced starts with a phonetic sound of e which is a vowel sound making it eligible for being preceded by an Yet, we tend to write a year Why?
word choice - What differences are there between annually, yearly . . . Either annually or yearly can and frequently does replace ‘every year’ as none of the phrases is limited by the number of occurrences, except to the extent that what happens twice a year is strictly biannual, not twice annually There is no difference at all among ‘annually’, ‘yearly’ or 'every year' and Longmans and Oxford Online don’t think there is All their examples are
Which one is correct: 1yr or 1yr. or 1 yr? I need to put one of the above on one of my app's buttons Bonus question - does the same rule hold in plural? That is if I write "1 yr ", do I write "15 yrs " as well?
Is there a proper term to describe ⅓ of a year (4 months)? I am looking for a proper single work term to describe one third of a calendar year Trimester does not seem correct as it seems to refer to a period of three months (one third of a pregnancy or one
What is the difference between Per year and Per annum? I know per annum is from Latin, but what are the real-world differences between these two phrases? Dictionary com appears to suggest that they are synonyms (see definition below), but I wonder if one