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- What is a wheal? - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
OED has wheal n 3 Etymology: < Cornish huel local A mine 1830 Eng For Mining Gloss Wheal is an Anglicisation of the Cornish word It's interesting that Wiktionary's earliest citation appears to predate OED: 1829, Thomas Moore, The History of Devonshire, page 528, The four last-mentioned mines, Wheal Crowndale, Wheal Crebor, East Liscombe, and Wheal Tamar, are on the same lode, which
- What to call the lump on skin from mosquito bite?
But wheal n ² is current: “2 In modern medical use, a flat, usually circular, hard elevation of the skin, esp that characteristic of urticaria ” Its etymology is listed as “Misspelt form of weal n ² Compare wheal v ²” This does all seem connected to a welt, but the OED has no definition of that word that matches my own use of it Huh!?
- When is it more correct to say did not and when didnt?
I noticed multiple times, when writing in Microsoft Word that the program suggests a correction, from either form to the other I can't seem to follow the logic When is it better to say did not,
- formality - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
Many summer programs university applications require me to provide a prefix I would prefer to be called by I always type "Mr ", but as I'm younger than 18, is this appropriate usage? Should I just
- single word requests - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
What do you call (a noun or an adjective) a person who keeps talking to someone despite the fact that they're clearly not interested in having a conversation with that person? The most typical (but
- prepositions - forbidden from or forbidden to - English Language . . .
Opinions differ: FORBID, PROHIBIT These verbs are near synonyms, but they take different prepositions Use to rather than from with forbid, and from rather than to with prohibit Take care to avoid sentences like They were forbidden from using cameras and They were prohibited to use cameras Make it forbidden to use or prohibited from using Lester Kaufman and Jane Straus; The Blue Book of
- Is the alleged original meaning of the phrase blood is thicker than . . .
I recently read that the phrase "Blood is thicker than water" was originally derived from the phrase "the blood of the covenant is thicker than the water of the womb", implying
- Defining quain - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
In "Kinds of Verse" poet Gerard Manley Hopkins writes The former [rhythmic repetition] gives more tone, candorem, style, chasteness, the latter [intermittent repetition] more brilliancy, starrine
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