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- Renumeration vs Remuneration (reimbursed financially), which is correct?
For my entire life, I thought the correct word was Renumeration But after reading a document that used Remuneration I checked google and apparently I was wrong The oxford dictionary has a link to
- Differences between Verb + to be + adjective and Verb + adjective
The first one that comes to mind is To be, or not to be, of course The to is required because infinitives starting sentences require a complementizer to mark subordination (remove it and see what happens) The be is required because it's the main verb and has an actual meaning -- in this case, human life and experience of existence
- What is the difference between Per year and Per annum?
From the Oxford Corpus of English: PER ANNUM For 30 years, it had gone remorselessly ahead, at about 80% per annum An Elan bond, where the bondholder can exercise the right to be repaid in 18 months, currently yields 19 per cent per annum With this fresh impetus, the total edible oil processing capacity, including vanaspati, is expected to cross 20 million tonne per annum PER YEAR We can
- Where does Whatcha Didja come from?
Does anyone know where quot;Whatcha quot; and or quot;Didja quot; originate from? Watcha: What did you? Didja: Did you? Edit: I cannot find these words in my English Grammar books and they ar
- Which spelling is correct: benefiting or benefitting?
Which spelling is correct: benefiting or benefitting? Actually, from Google Ngrams, benefitting seems to be used slightly more frequently in American English than it is in British English I believe this is because, in American English, the rule is to double the consonant if there is stress on the last syllable, and in American English, benefit has secondary stress on the last syllable
- What are the abbreviations for days of the week? [closed]
I would like to know if there is a common abbreviation for days of the week in a two letter form I mean: Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday; can be abbreviated as Su,
- Word or phrase to describe something that previously had a use, but now . . .
Something like a remnant of a system that originally had a purpose, but has since lost its purpose, to the point of having a negative impact on the current system Think of something like an outdated
- Words with most meanings - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
For a long time, "set" had the most meanings in the OED, but now it is "run" From the New York Times of 25th May 2011: Which is the most lustrously complex word among the three quarters of a million or so words and senses that make up this vast mongrel tongue we know as the English language? Well, according to the O E D ’s chief editor, John Simpson, we now have a winner — and a winner
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