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- word choice - Is it bear or bare with me? - English Language . . .
Is it "bear" or "bare" with me? Stack Exchange Network Stack Exchange network consists of 183 Q A communities including Stack Overflow, the largest, most trusted online community for developers to learn, share their knowledge, and build their careers
- Idiom: Bear with me - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
The OED relates "bear with" to "bear" in the sense "sustain [anything painful or trying]; to endure, to tolerate" The expression is quite old and can be found in Shakespeare's works: Actually Shakespeare uses the phrase very often, e g: Julius Caesar: "Bear with me; My heart is in the coffin there with Caesar"
- differences - Are bear someone out and back someone up sometimes . . .
one example of bear him out, with 'records' as the subject; only three out of about 50 examples of bear out have a human subject In COCA (the Corpus of Contemporary American English), eight out of eleven instances of bear me out have a human subject; only one of twenty instances of bear him out has a human subject, and
- What is the origin of the British slang bare?
In Jamaican patois, the word "bare" and "pure" can be used interchangeably to mean "plenty of" So "bare gyal" or "pure gyal" means plenty of girls You can Youtube a song by the Jamaican reggae artist, Bounty Killer, titled "bare gyal ah mad ova me", which translates to "loads of girls are going crazy for me"
- Why is borne a past participle of bear? - English Language Usage . . .
The word bear started out as a perfectly normal strong class 4 verb in Old English Because of this, it has a Germanic root which is the origin of the past forms bore, born, and borne Bear is currently classified as an irregular verb because people normally do not add -ed to the end of the word when they use a specific past form
- grammar - Bear something in mind or Bear in mind something . . .
For what I've read, it seems to me that "Bear something in mind" is used when that something is short, or a single word, like "Bearing this in mind we have that " On the other hand, " Bear in mind something " seems to be used when that something in longer, or even just longer than a single word, like "Bearing in mind both of those previous
- Meaning of bareback - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
The phrase in question definitely have a sexual connotation But not for vulgarity’s sake Bareback can refer to riding any animal without some covering or apparatus between it and the rider
- ambiguity - What exactly does bear witness mean? - English Language . . .
The Oxford English Dictionary defines "bear witness" as 1- Testify to 2- State or show one’s belief in Are both these definitions correct? I mean for instance, you don't bear witness or become a witness in a courtroom to "show your belief" You do it if you are an eye-witness or have solid evidence Please clarify this Thanks
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