american english - Tying. Is Tieing really that unusual? - English . . . This Ngram graph plotting the frequency of occurrence of "tying" (blue line) versus "tieing" (red line) for 1800–2008 suggests that tying is far more common The difference between the results for the British English corpus
English word for rope used to tie a cow 4 I wanted to know if there is an English word to describe the rope used to tie a cow to its place (pole, etc) or a word to describe the process of tying a cow to its place (pole, etc) I hope I have described it clearly so that you can understand Please feel free to ask if I wasn't clear enough
If my boat is sinking should I bale or bail the water out? From various literary examples it appears that I should manually 'bail' out the water to keep afloat but the automated water removal system in my vessel is a 'baling pump' While there is this, I
Are there any rules to differeniate when to use the i vs y in . . . Words derived from Greek are much more likely to have "y" in their spelling than are words of Latin origin, basically as a substitute for where the Greeks used ϒ ("upsilon") The other exception to this is that before an ending that starts with a vowel, you generally won't find an "i" (crying, tying, dyad)
I got first place in a competition where its possible to tie. How . . . The competition is graded by score -- total amount of questions right over questions given In this case, it is 30 30 However, it is reasonable to think that other people also got that score, but in this case that was not true Is the assumption still that I was not tied for first?