Verbally differentiating between princes and princess However, whenever I pronounce the latter, it always sounds like "The Princess Street" This might be a bit of a stretch, but is there a way to pronounce this while avoiding confusion? I often end up clarifying it afterwards by using "Street of the Prince", but it sounds weird in my humble opinion And doing it every time gets old
When did prince princess come to mean royal heir? The words prince and princess come to English from Old French and ultimately from Latin's quot;princeps quot; However, in both Latin and Old French, as well as historical Italian, quot;prince q
capitalization - Should I use the queen or the Queen? - English . . . A noun (when not at the start of a sentence) should be capitalised if and only if it is a proper noun, which refers to a specific person, place, thing or idea without taking a limiting modifier Examples: "The Queen (of England) visited my school " Since the word "Queen" is capitalised here, we know that it must be referring to a specific queen The words "of x country" do not have to be included
What is the short form for little ? Is it lil or lil? Ngram shows li'l beating out lil' and li'l' since before 1900 (Note that you must press "Search lots of books" after clicking on the link ) And since Lil is a very popular name (both as a first name and as a hyphenated portion of an apparently Arabic name), any Ngram results for that variant must be ignored But as @sumelic points out, the Ngram results are highly suspect, due to the
single word requests - Is there a male equivalent of dowager with . . . I see Wikipedia talks about "Queen dowagers" and that "dowager Princess" has sometimes been used, so "dowager Prince Phillip" would fit except "dowager" always refers to a female, specifically a widow So is there any equivalent for a widower?
Is this correct usage of designate as an adjective? As [Wikipedia] () says, a postpositive or postnominal adjective is an attributive adjective that is placed after the noun or pronoun that it modifies Subcategory Names of posts, ranks, etc : bishop emeritus, professor emeritus, attorney general, consul general, governor general, postmaster general, surgeon general, Astronomer Royal, Princess Royal, airman basic, minister plenipotentiary
What is the pronunciation of the possessive words that already end in s . . . The pronunciation of the suffix "s" added for a possessive can have three forms: [s], [z] or [iz] The rules for pronunciation are the same as for the plural You have: [s] Nick's Pope's Stuart's (voiceless consonant before s) [z] Laura's Greg's Tom's (voiced consonant or vowel before s) [iz] Travis's , Buzz's , princess's, coach's (when the singular words end up in "s","z" or fricatives such
expressions - Usage of the more you squeeze, the more sand disappears . . . Governor Tarkin: Princess Leia, before your execution, I'd like you to join me for a ceremony that will make this battle station operational No star system will dare oppose the Emperor now Princess Leia: The more you tighten your grip, Tarkin, the more star systems will slip through your fingers (from *Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope*)