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- adjectives - East Coast, East coast, or east coast? - English Language . . .
Yet the West Midlands is to all intents a proper noun and always capitalised, as is East Anglia The 'Home Counties' is the collective name given to the six counties which border London, but I am always at a loss as to whether to apply capitals I think I will compose a question on this –
- capitalization - To capitalize or not to capitalize southern . . .
The word "southern" is not part of the official name of California or any city or county, so I never capitalize it It only loosely defines a region of California and its border is not officially defined either However, I was recently advised by someone who I consider to be educated to capitalize "southern" in this context
- single word requests - What is the name of the area of skin between the . . .
@Doorknob - Elliot has named it correctly The upper lip is skin-covered, skin-colored, and hairy The pink parts are called the upper and lower vermilion, the border between the skin and the vermilion is called the vermilion border, the wet, shiny inner portion of what people call the "lips" is called the wet vermilion or the mucosa
- More formal way of saying: Sorry to bug you again about this, but . . .
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- phrases - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
Based on what I understand of the words, verge seems to suggest the border between two things or a line between two spaces Think of the word converge That means basically to come together at the verge So the verge has two sides
- Should the words city state province be capitalized (if not . . .
When referring to an entity like a government body, should it be capitalized if referring to is by classification(?) E g , if I write: The City of New York requires us to get a building permit
- grammar - Should have went vs Should have gone - English Language . . .
Yes, that's the way the paradigms seem to be falling out: either the participle is the same as the past regularly, or an irregular past participle becomes equivalent to past, like shrink, shrunk, shrunk, or an irregular past form becomes the participle, as here
- Origin of the idiom go south - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
go south (also head south, take a turn south) 1 v phr by 1940s To disappear; fail by or as if by vanishing [examples omitted] 2 v phr by 1925 To abscond with money loot, etc [examples omitted] 3 v phr underworld by 1950 To cheat, esp to cheat at cards [examples omitted] 4 v phr by 1980s To lessen; diminish [examples omitted] Probably from the
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