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- Entry(s) or Entrie(s)? - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
“1 entry selected" or “1 entries selected”? As with the last example, this one is pretty clear; the former is correct Every number beyond one (since it will be plural and will require agreement) will be correct with “entries ” All right, let's add back the prepositional phrase now Which would be correct?
- hyphenation - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
Is there a difference between "sugar cane" and sugarcane? Is sugarcane wrong? What is the gramatical rule for joining two names like that? I have found 13 500 entries on google for sugarcane, but
- What are the differences between a proverb, adage, aphorism, epigram . . .
But the Wikipedia entries for each are quite different Are these words largely interchangeable synonyms? In the Wikipedia entry for adage, for example, a proverb is defined as an adage produced from folk wisdom, whereas an aphorism has "not necessarily gained credit through long use, but is distinguished by particular depth or good style"
- How to decide alphabetical order when space is present?
If I were looking in an index for a Williams, and found a block of entries, each entry a Williams, and saw that my Williams was not there, I'd conclude that it was not in the index at all I wouldn't expect it to be in another block of Williamses, separated from the other block by a Williamson
- Is efficate a word in English? [closed] - English Language Usage . . .
I do not find entries for this word in common English dictionaries, but I do not have an unabridged dictionary I have checked the OED (I'm not sure if it is considered unabridged), and it has no entry for "efficate" It does have an entry for "efficiate", which is used in the same way
- Origin of island time - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
76) on November 12 (p 79), he began a journal (p 76), making entries retroactively for the period September 30–November 12, briefly recounting his labors under datelines, and making almost daily entries thereafter (with a hiatus from January 3 to April 16) until July 4 {1660} (p 106), when his entries became more infrequent, ceasing
- grammaticality - on the link, in the link, or at the link . . .
From the software point of view, a link is a program within which there are algorithmic routines to process entries made by the user The instructions to the user about how to make the entries are not visible on the link, which is normally appears as something like this example: Which is the better usage of the following phrase?
- time - If an event ends on a day, does the day constitute a part of . . .
The best way to prevent any misunderstandings is to specify the precise day, hour and minute when the auction ends, the item has to be returned, no more entries will be accepted, or the bankers will be executed
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