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- terminology - What is the exact technical word to describe the . . .
A cognate accusative object is a figure of speech in which the verb and object are etymologically related: He slept a troubled sleep Dance a dance Die a peaceful death So there shouldn't be any problem writing: verb x and its cognate noun Since you're dealing with a language based on consonantal roots, “noun [derived] from the same root” would also work The problem with derivation
- User Abraham Zhang - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
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- Is Many thanks a proper usage? - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
I saw emails from English people with Many Thanks as a signing off phrase Is that proper usage? Or is it a phrase created by continental English speakers due to the influence of their native langu
- grammaticality - Whether or not vs. whether - English Language . . .
As Henry Higgins observed in Pygmallion, the best grammarians are often those who learned English in school as immigrants My parents, who were first-generation Americans in the early 20th century, learned English grammar in NYC public schools meticulously They insisted "whether or not" is proper usage, period Over time, language evolves or erodes and the rules change, which really means
- Source of BB in the sense of small, spherical pellet of shot
@SvenYargs: From 1845 to 1883 "BB" meant Brigitte Bardot It was changed to mean ball bearing in 1883
- Free of vs. Free from - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
I checked Garner's Modern American Usage; although BG doesn't address free of vs free from, he writes that the distinction between freedom of and freedom from is that the former indicates the "possession of a right" (freedom of speech) and the latter "protection from a wrong" (freedom from oppression) So free from is used to indicate protection from something problematic, and free of (which
- british english - Is it Myself and _____, _____ and myself, or . . .
Yes, but Lucy isn’t intensified by myself This isn’t like splitting an infinitive or ending a sentence with a preposition People do speak this way, but people make grammatical mistakes and sound less educated because of them This is akin to saying “Me and Lucy ” People speak that way, but it’s still generally accepted as wrong
- Man is to womanizer as woman is to what?
What's the feminine version of womanizer? Your title and question are a bit contradictory Reading the title, I inferred that the question was a man womanizes a female so what do you call a female that womanizes a male However, the question implies what is a woman that womanizes; I wasn't aware that womanizing was gender specific As opposed to (what the title led me to believe the question
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