Barkeeper, or bartender? How to address them? Bars, pubs, and inns are different things, so their owners and keepers are different things, to The fact that they're often called barkeep, innkeeper, and pub owner, with three different second elements in the compounds, is just idiomatic icing on the, erm, booze –
articles - the son of a barkeep is speaker of the House - English . . . I'd say "a son of a barkeep" is better than "the son of a barkeep", "The" indicates that you are only talking about one particular son, which is true in this sentence, but the point of the sentence is that any and all sons of barkeeps might achieve the same lofty position (edited "the barkeep" to "a barkeep", that was a typo)
Origin of wise guy to mean a member of the Mafia (US) 1896 [US] F Hutcheson Barkeep Stories 171: ‘Say, lemme tell you somet’in’, Mr Wise Guy,’ broke in the barkeep 3 (US) a criminal 1909 [US] H Green Mr Jackson 59: ‘Cheer up, my boy, they ain’t no more prisons fur you’ [ ] I had to start out an’ be a wise guy again after livin’ with no effort fur mighty near a year 4
Is evidence countable? - English Language Usage Stack Exchange As a native English speaker, I am often asked by friends and colleagues to correct their manuscripts One of the most common mistakes I find is the use of the noun evidences Now, the dictionary