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- Normalcy or Normality? - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
"Normalcy" was used by Warren G Harding in his 1920 election campaign called "Return to Normalcy " When pointed out that the word was a mistake, Harding said he couldn't find the word "normality" in his dictionary Before his gaff, "normalcy" was used as a mathematics term
- british english - In Britain the word normalcy is ridiculed - English . . .
The word normalcy is used both in AmE as well as BrE, though to a lesser extent than normality normalcy vs normality, AmE, 1900-2009 normalcy vs normality, BrE, 1900-2009 Overall, normalcy seems to be used chiefly in news reporting and commonly in its 'idiomatic' sense (see further below) normalcy vs normality, English, 1900-2000
- single word requests - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
Modicum appears in a few book titles, e g , Armando Heredia; An Artist of Modicum Success (2016) Whether or not matter claimed to be a trade secret "possesses at least that modicum of originality which will separate it from every day knowledge" is a question of fact which must attend the trial
- Why in Britain were the police called rozzers?
GDoS suggest a possible origin from medieval French roussin: Rozzer: (also rawser, razzer, rosser, roz) [? Rom roozlo, strong or roast, a villain; B L suggest rousse, roussin, a policeman (from Medieval
- Words for ordinal 5-point scale from normal to severe
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- What is the origin of the phrase beyond the pale?
From World Wide Words: Pale is an old name for a pointed piece of wood driven into the ground and — by an obvious extension — to a barrier made of such stakes, a palisade or fence
- Whats the word for someone who opposes a generally established opinion . . .
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- grammar - How it feels like vs. What it feels like - English . . .
This is a kind of syntactic portmanteau, where two intentions compete for utterance, and the contest is so even that both wind up equally and simultaneously realized—as delightfully explained and illustrated in the Preface to Lewis Carroll’s The Hunting of the Snark
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