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- How did Ducat come to mean ticket? - English Language Usage Stack . . .
I am wondering about the origin of the second meaning How did ducats come to mean tickets for a show or performance?
- When to use amount vs amounts? - English Language Usage Stack . . .
Both are grammatically correct, and each communicates a subtle distinction The word amount is used in the singular to convey a single quantity: noun 1 0 A quantity of something, especially the total of a thing or things in number, size, value, or extent: sport gives an enormous amount of pleasure to many people the substance is harmless if taken in small amounts 1 1 A sum of money: they have
- meaning - Whats the origin of flipping the bird? - English Language . . .
Flipping seems pretty straightforward, so the real question here is, where did "the bird " come from? Here's one account: bird (3) "middle finger held up in a rude gesture," slang derived from 1860s expression give the big bird "to hiss someone like a goose," kept alive in vaudeville slang with sense of "to greet someone with boos, hisses, and catcalls" (1922), transferred 1960s to the "up
- american english - What is British (-ize) spelling style? - English . . .
Wikipedia has an entry for the Oxford style which prefers the spelling with -z- in academic writing: Oxford spelling (also Oxford English Dictionary spelling, Oxford style, or Oxford English spelling) is a British spelling standard, named after its use by the Oxford University Press, that prescribes spelling the suffix -ize -ise (in words such as realize and organization) with the letter -z
- What is the origin of the phrase playing hooky?
What does the word "hooky" mean in the phrase "play hooky" (skipping class truancy) and where did it come from?
- How to write numbers and percentage? - English Language Usage Stack . . .
In general, it is good practice that the symbol that a number is associated with agrees with the way the number is written (in numeric or text form) For example, $3 instead of 3 dollars Note that this doesn't apply when the numbers are large, so it is perfectly fine to write 89 5 percent, as eighty-nine-and-a-half percent is very clunky This source puts it simply: When writing percentages
- Past due or passed due - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
I know that "past due" stamped on a bill is accepted, however I believe it should be "passed due" Does this mean that "past due" is vernacularly correct and "passed due" is grammatically correct?
- What is my Nationality: United States of America or American?
Also see Can I use “US-American” to disambiguate “American”? If not, what can I use? and Is ‘USAers’ just an ordinary English word today? As a broad rule, United States of America is essentially never used attributively— you are a U S citizen, a United States citizen, or an American citizen
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