pronunciation - How do you pronounce Lowe in Lowes - English . . . I am a Lowe in the US of english descent and my family pronounce "Lowe" as rhyming with "how " Our family has been in the US since at least the late 1700s To my grandfather's knowledge (the oldest living Lowe in my family) our family has always pronounced it this way
Is there any reason to prefer the AIC or BIC over the other? There is no such constraint on Akaike's original derivation, or, to be clearer, on the derivation using the AIC as an estimator of the Kullback-Leibler divergence In fact, in a paper that I'm working on, I show somewhat "empirically" that the AIC can even be used for model selection of covariance structures (different number of parameters
Acronyms and Initialisms- Uppercase, Lowercase, or either The Chicago Manual of Style, sixteenth edition (2010) briefly addresses the question of whether the spelled-out form of an initialism or acronym should be initial-capped if the short form is capitalized, at 10 6 Capital versus lowercase for acronyms and initialisms:
When should Mom and Dad be capitalized? The (original or quoted?) passage uses it correctly, but the OP's understanding may not be completely correct You might want to address that it seems like the OP thinks use (3) should be capitalized, but this is an instance where it's used to mean "father" and would not be capitalized, in opposition to (not "just like") use (4), where it's a name
grammar - Pick up someone vs Pick someone up? - English Language . . . Oxford Learner's Dictionary provides this notation for the relevant meanings of pick up: pick somebody <-> up pick somebody something <-> up The <-> means that the word before and after can appear in reverse order Technically, in example 1 I can either "pick the baby up" or "pick up the baby "
pronunciation - Whats the rule for pronouncing “’s” as z or s . . . If the last sound in the base is an unvoiced consonant, we use s However, if the last sound in the base form is another sibilant of any description— s, z, ʃ, ʒ, tʃ, dʒ —we need to insert a vowel ɪ to make the ending audible Because this vowel is voiced the very last sound will be z
capitalization - Capitalize fields of study? - English Language Usage . . . The University of Ottawa’s writing guide: Subject areas and disciplines Subject areas like biology, sociology, engineering, women’s studies and psychology are common nouns and don’t normally take a capital letter The University of Ottawa has programs in an array of disciplines, from mathematics and medicine to chemistry and criminology
verbs - Can was be abbreviated as s? - English Language Usage . . . The apostrophe + s is usually understood to mean a shortened form of is or has It would not be understood to represent a different tense of be She's at home yesterday would be read as She is at home yesterday which is incorrect (of course, the apostrophe can shorten other words as well, such as have, but that is not relevant to your
Apostrophe s or ss - English Language Usage Stack Exchange In this sentence should I use Apostrophe as s's or s'? I am always confused with what exactly the rule behind s' and s's The sentence is: Hours later Fadnavis's resignation, the the NCP-Congress leaders combined met Governor and staked claim to form the Government Fadnavis is the name of the Chief Minister (for your understanding)
(s) or s at the end of a word to denote one or many " s" is the absolute shortest (for the case of simple "add an s" pluralizations), and in many fontfaces "()" can stand-out more than intended outside of its primary use (as an aside, such as in this-here parenthetical comment), but the point remains that the forward-slash has many other uses that are similar enough to the "[singular] s" use as