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- Shelled vs. deshelled - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
I don't hear ambiguity with an "already," but try: "I really enjoy these shelled pistachios" - I might interpret that as some pistachios that have shells and where I've got to remove the shells "De-shelled" would resolve the ambiguity for me A similar use of "deshelled" seems to occur when describing other things with shells, like eggs and coconuts (see Google books results)
- Ambiguous Nuts or To Shell or not to Shell
How does one remove the ambiguity of shelled peanuts? Must one just not use the adjective 'shelled' in relation to peanuts, or other nuts, or shellfish?
- Halloween and shell out - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
Growing up in Canada, in addition to "trick-or-treating" as a description of kids' activities on Hallowe'en evening, I often heard the verb "shell out", conjugated as "shelling out" or "shellouting
- Origin of the idiom If ifs and buts were candy and nuts?
The aphorism was coined by the Dallas Cowboys quarterback, Don Meredith, who later became a sports commentator for the TV show Monday Night Football in 1970 17 December 1970, Ada (OK) Evening News, pg 7, col 1: Howard Cosell: “If Los Angeles wins, it’s a big one, but San Francisco is still very much in it ” Don Meredith: “ If ifs and buts were candy and nuts, we’d all have a merry
- writing - Capitalization of the Company - English Language Usage . . .
I am writing a business plan It is lengthy, so instead of always mentioning the company by its full name, I will write, "the company provides " Another writer wants me to capitalize "The Comp
- Should I use everyones, everyones or everyones?
I have the following sentence: Joe got everyone's attention and started to speak Should it be everyone's, everyones' or everyones?
- Are peas countable or non-countable? - English Language Usage Stack . . .
Some like it hot, some like it cold, some like it in the pot, nine days old Count noun pea was back-formed from pease when peas began to be eaten green and shelled as a vegetable and the need arose for a singular Now it's standard
- What is the origin of the phrase A Mountain Im Willing to Die On?
The immediate image I had when I saw this question was of the scene in For Whom the Bell Tolls where El Sordo and his youthful companions on a mountain top try to fight off a fascist airplane as it makes a bombing run toward them (I don't believe the phrase "a mountain I'm willing to die on" comes up there or elsewhere in the novel or movie, however ) Then I thought about Ingrid Bergman
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