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- Whats the proper way to handwrite a lowercase letter A?
I believe every one of the images that came up for me has some form of the OP's version 2 for a printed a (At some point as an adult I switched over to the other a (fig 1), perhaps thinking there was less chance of my a being mistaken for an o )
- Is there any reason to prefer the AIC or BIC over the other?
There is no such constraint on Akaike's original derivation, or, to be clearer, on the derivation using the AIC as an estimator of the Kullback-Leibler divergence In fact, in a paper that I'm working on, I show somewhat "empirically" that the AIC can even be used for model selection of covariance structures (different number of parameters
- 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
- When should Mom and Dad be capitalized?
The (original or quoted?) passage uses it correctly, but the OP's understanding may not be completely correct You might want to address that it seems like the OP thinks use (3) should be capitalized, but this is an instance where it's used to mean "father" and would not be capitalized, in opposition to (not "just like") use (4), where it's a name
- capitalization - Capitalize fields of study? - English Language Usage . . .
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
- Is it CoViD? Or COVID? Covid? How should the word be spelled?
Official nomenclature and journalistic practice A recent item by Elisabeth Ribbans, "COVID or Covid?The comfort of pedantry at a time of national crisis," in The Guardian (April 19, 2020), asserts that initial-capping acronyms (abbreviations pronounced phonetically as approximately the sum of their letter sounds, rather than as as a series of names of the constituent alphabet letters) is the
- Acronyms and Initialisms- Uppercase, Lowercase, or either
The Chicago Manual of Style, sixteenth edition (2010) briefly addresses the question of whether the spelled-out form of an initialism or acronym should be initial-capped if the short form is capitalized, at 10 6 Capital versus lowercase for acronyms and initialisms:
- What is the best word to describe an object of importance without . . .
Per OED's second definition: Anything valued and preserved as precious; also of a person, a ‘jewel’, ‘gem’ (colloq ); also as an affectionate term of address Note particularly that highlighted point - treasure = money is just one sense, as with dear = expensive
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