Incidences vs incidents - English Language Usage Stack Exchange I will analyze the number of incidents of traffic accidents which occurred last year I will analyze the incidences of traffic accidents which occurred last year Are these sentences using the
What is the difference between incidence and occurrence? The two words are generally synonymous in scientific usage I am aware of a very slight difference, in that occurrence may mean the fact of something happening, as well as meaning the frequency of its occurrence But such distinction is trivial, may not be agreed by other commentators, and does not justify saying that "occurrence" is an unacceptable answer Unless the test related to a very
word choice - Which is correct, dataset or data set? - English . . . However, there are 172 incidences in the Corpus of Contemporary American English, and all but a handful are in the “academic” section, representing formal academic writing Its lack of appearance in dictionaries is probably because it is a fairly new coinage, the two examples from the Corpus of Historical American English are from 2001
Speeded vs. Sped - English Language Usage Stack Exchange (X axis: year, Y axis: incidences per million words ) So sped has been preferred over speeded for as long as the corpus data goes back Generally speaking, irregular verbs tend to become regular over time, rather than the other way round, though the latter is not unheard of, either
Dammit vs. damnit - English Language Usage Stack Exchange What is the correct spelling, dammit or damnit? And what is the difference? Just writing this question brings up a red squiggly underneath damnit and the suggestions include dammit and damn it
When should the word God be capitalized? Goddamn For the first 1000 incidences of goddamn, they were divided like this: 770 goddamn 218 Goddamn 38 God damn 27 god damn 18 god-damn 17 God-damn 12 GODDAMN 3 God-Damn 2 God Damn 1 GOD DAMN 183 examples of Goddamn occurred after punctuation—only 35 occurred after a word Lowercase goddamn is dramatically more common
orthography - English Language Usage Stack Exchange Here is a graph comparing incidences of type A and type B forms: The y-axis shows the difference in incidence between types A and B If it is above 0, that means that type A was more common in that period; if below 0, that means type B was more common The raw data used to generate the chart is in this Google Spreadsheet
grammaticality - When should I use a versus an in front of a word . . . The number of incidences in the Corpus you have cited says nothing about whether the "an" usage is dying out, increasing, or staying the same Simply that it is less common than the "a" usage I liked your first paragraph though!