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- Who changed the way vacumn was spelled 40 years ago?
According to the Online Etymological Dictionary, vacuum entered English in the 1540s directly from Latin as the substantivized, neuter form of the adjective vacuus The earliest use was as an abstract, non-count noun denoting the emptiness of space, later any void or empty space, for which one could use the Latin plural vacua or simply tack on
- pronunciation - Why is vacuum pronounced [ˈvæ. kjuːm] and not [ˈvæ . . .
+1 It seems that vacuum is the odd word out when placed in a lineup with (for example) continuum, individuum, menstruum, and residuum I don't know why the -uum in vacuum came to be pronounced differently from the -uum in the others, but to judge from the pronunciation offered in John Walker's A Critical Pronouncing Dictionary, and Expositor of the English Language (1807), 'twas not always thus
- Can I call a vacuum cleaner cleaner a vacuum cleaner?
If a 'vacuum cleaner cleaner' is a machine for cleaning vacuum cleaners, then the person who cleans the vacuum cleaner cleaner would be a 'vacuum cleaner cleaner cleaner'
- Where is the root morpheme in Modern English evacuate and vacuum?
Clearly they are related through Latin, from e- and vacare (out of and to empty) and from vacuus (empty), and in Latin the shared morpheme is vac- More interesting may be the relationships with vain, vast and waste which have similar origins in Latin or proto-Indo-European, but which have more specific meanings in modern English
- punctuation - Why is it that we use a comma before tag questions . . .
(In a vacuum, “Am I not?” could only be construed as some sort of philosophical counter-Descartian pondering ) In light of this dependence, the comma is more apt then the semicolon
- Why is zero followed by a plural noun? - English Language Usage . . .
I could have: Two books One book Zero books Why is zero followed by a plural form? I don't expect English to always make sense, but everything has a reason, even if the reason is stupid The defini
- differences - Electronic vs. electric - English Language Usage . . .
The vacuum tube was soon replaced by semi-conductor materials The technology was named solid state electronics because, semi-conductor materials, like vacuum, are actually insulators that can conduct more or less when activated
- expressions - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
A talent knowledge vacuum is created as talent redundancy has been overlooked and nobody else knows how to do Sara's job, then that leg of the company experiences failure until a solution for Sara's absence is resolved
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