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- Whats the proper way to handwrite a lowercase letter A?
To answer your question simply: The proper (or at least normal) way to write "a" in handwriting is to write it "ɑ" without the arc above the loop The two ways to write lower-case a are called double-storey A (a) and single-storey A (ɑ) Single-storey is used for italics in most fonts But why are there two different As? Back in ye olde days there were many ways to write a lower-case A (The
- adjectives - East Coast, East coast, or east coast? - English Language . . .
When it's used as a name, you capitalize it: I'm going to the East Coast this summer There are lots of farms in the Midwest When you're using it as a general description of a place, it's not capitalized: The east coast of the U S is a popular destination for tourists Illinois is a midwestern state
- Capitalize fields of study? - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
The University of Ottawa’s writing guide: Subject areas and disciplines Subject areas like biology, sociology, engineering, women’s studies and psychology are common nouns and don’t normally take a capital letter The University of Ottawa has programs in an array of disciplines, from mathematics and medicine to chemistry and criminology
- grammar - Pick up someone vs Pick someone up? - English Language . . .
Oxford Learner's Dictionary provides this notation for the relevant meanings of pick up: pick somebody <-> up pick somebody something <-> up The <-> means that the word before and after can appear in reverse order Technically, in example 1 I can either "pick the baby up" or "pick up the baby "
- When should Mom and Dad be capitalized?
When you are using the word "Dad" to refer to a specific person, it's standing in place of their name, and thus, like their name, would be capitalized When you're talking about dads in general, it's a common noun
- Is it CoViD? Or COVID? Covid? How should the word be spelled?
Webster's includes no examples of acronyms that it would render in initial-cap-but-otherwise-lowercase format So even if MW weren't inclined to accept the WHO's preferred all-cap formatting of COVID-19 (which I think it would be), there is no reason to suppose that it would endorse the form Covid-19
- Acronyms and Initialisms- Uppercase, Lowercase, or either
Is there a rule on acronyms and initialisms being spelled out with the first letter of each word being uppercase or lowercase? Example: interim final rule (IFR) Interim Final Rule (IFR)
- Difference between under, underneath, below and beneath
Apparently a variant of earlier a-lowe (influenced by other adverbs in be-; see before), the parallel form to an-high (now on high) Beneath was the usual word; below was very rare in Middle English and gained currency only in 16c
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