word choice - As evidenced by or as evident by? - English Language . . . My first thought was that as evidenced by is a "malapropism" But as evinced by this chart I'm slightly out of touch with current usage However, I do still think as evident by is a latter-day malapropism - as shown by this chart, where usage falls far short of even as evinced by
Evidenced in or by? - English Language Usage Stack Exchange Indeed, the third example sentence for evidenced at OD is: 'This was evidenced in the cohesive and selfless display against Rangers ' In is used in situations where the evidence is provided by a specific item 1 or event In the above sentence, this would be the match against Rangers Compare with 'This was evidenced by the cohesive and selfless
Can evidence be used as verb? - English Language Usage Stack Exchange The study also evidenced significant associations among 3 health risk indices (From Associations Between Perceptions of School Connectedness and Adolescent Health Risk Behaviors in South African High School Learners)
Is evidence as a verb an Americanism? - English Language Usage . . . An ngram search of he evidences and he evidenced, as examples of active use, does show some significant usage, but mostly using the term to mean to make evident; show clearly, rather than to give proof of or evidence for [both from Collins] While many such usages are clinical, both in medicine and psychology, even well known literary works partake
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
Word or phrase to stress the importance of something? How to stress the importance of something regarding a recent example? Clearly (in an essay) I want to stress the importance of a well-known scientific topic by pointing out to a recent news, namely
Origin of “the grass is always greener” - English Language Usage . . . this idiom has been popular since at least the early 1900’s, evidenced by the fact that a song recorded in 1924 by Raymond B Egan and Richard A Whiting carried its wording, “The Grass is Always Greener in the Other Fellow’s Yard ” One often suggested origin of the current version is:
pronunciation - How do you spell Aye Yai Yai - English Language . . . In the show Power Rangers, one character had this as a catchphrase; it was commonly spelled "Ai yi yi", as evidenced here, though alternatives included: aye yai yai; aye yi yi; ayiyi; ay ay ay; aye aye aye; i-i-i
Each time vs. Every time - English Language Usage Stack Exchange If you want to say that he looks different every time that she lays eyes on him, then say that Regardless of whether you use each or every with the never version, there's a degree of ambiguity - you might mean she looks at him 50 times a day, but every day he looks different at least once (but all the other 49 times he looks the same