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- What is the origin of the phrase beyond the pale?
Pale in this idiom comes from Latin pālus 'stake'; it means a fencepost, and by ordinary extension it also means the fence itselt, and the area it contains or delimits So beyond the pale just means "outside the boundaries" Normally, of course, the "boundaries" are metaphors for human activities, rather than referring to a physically bounded location
- What do we call the “rd” in “3ʳᵈ” and the “th” in “9ᵗʰ”?
Our numbers have a specific two-letter combination that tells us how the number sounds For example 9th 3rd 301st What do we call these special sounds?
- What term is used for the closing of a letter?
Salutation is the term used to describe the beginning of a letter or other correspondence What is the term used for the closing of a letter? Here are some examples: Yours truly, Sincerely, Best wi
- What do you call the male equivalent to Cougar (woman)?
What is the male equivalent to the term "cougar"? Clarifying The term "cougar" describes an older woman seeking younger men So a male equivalent would be an older man seek
- word choice - What is the name of the symbols - and gt;?
+1, I like that this is the first answer to address the multiple Unicode code points involved However, I think you might mention that regardless of the characters' names or official prescriptions for use, the less-than and greater-than signs are commonly used as a type of brackets, probably because they can easily be typed and their display is more widely supported than that of the other symbols
- word choice - What Is the Real Name of the #? - English Language . . .
The musical sharp (♯) is technically a different character from the octothorpe (#), though they are superficially similar The Wikipedia article describes the origin of the alternative names number sign, pound sign, and hash among others
- What does whats the catch mean? - English Language Usage Stack . . .
The definition of catch in such a context as this is: a hidden problem or disadvantage in an apparently ideal situation according to the New Oxford American Dictionary Examples of common usage: OK, I've seen all the benefits, but what's the catch? This sounds too good to be true There's a catch, isn't there? Aha, triple interest rates! So, there's the catch! There's always a catch Nothing's
- What the matter is vs. what is the matter used in the affirmative
Rathony, neither of those are about 'what's the matter' or 'what the matter is' While they deal with a WH question word fronting a noun clause they do not deal with the idiomatic usage question I posed, nor do they attend to question about reversing the sentence pattern: i e , "what's the matter" vs "what the matter is" The other aspect as I mentioned was that grammatical textbooks have
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