Is teh an English word? - English Language Usage Stack Exchange Teh was used as an example that if every single English word was included in a spell-checker it would decrease (the spell-checker's) utility (very few people know or use "teh", it's auto-corrected to "the") I've checked both on-line and paper dictionaries and can't find it, can anyone confirm that it is an English word and what it's meaning is?
orthography - meaning and usage of teh - English Language Usage . . . Hagrid’s pronunciation of to is spelled ter in the book, so teh seems to be an article, at least according to Wiktionary However, it seems to be an uncommon usage, so I would please like to know its meaning, plus when this particular usage may be safely adopted
etymology - Was tea ever pronounced as teh-ah? - English Language . . . Follow up on SciFi SE Pronunciation of teatime: in my answer I argue that "teh-ah" as spelled out once in a discworld novel is a pronunciation-spelling It is essentially not clear why tea ti: is spelled and pronounced the way it is to begin with According to one comment by @Tetsujin (below), tee-ah may be heard from South-Yorkshire
Origin of the beatings will continue until morale improves The earliest closely relevant match I've been able to find for this expression is from a cartoon by Lt B E Lodge, U S Navy, submitted for the All-Navy Cartoon Contest and published in All Hands: The Bureau of Naval Personnel Information Bulletin (November 1961) with the following caption:
What is the origin of the phrase beyond the pale? From World Wide Words: Pale is an old name for a pointed piece of wood driven into the ground and — by an obvious extension — to a barrier made of such stakes, a palisade or fence
Regarding Re: ; what is the correct usage in an email subject line? RFC 2822, "Internet Message Format" says, When used in a reply, the field body MAY start with the string "Re: " (from the Latin "res", in the matter of) followed by the contents of the "Subject:" field body of the original message
What is the most professional name for squiggly bracket? The Chicago Manual of Style refers to them as "braces" 6 102 "Braces, {}, often called curly brackets, provide yet another option for enclosing data and are used in various ways in certain programming languages
The Dude abides — what does abide mean in that context? I'm unfamilar with the word "abide" which is famously used the the movie quote "The Dude abides" (The Big Lebowski) Looking it up in a German English dictionary makes me believe it's "The Dude li
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