Which is correct — a year or an year? [duplicate] The word year when pronounced starts with a phonetic sound of e which is a vowel sound making it eligible for being preceded by an Yet, we tend to write a year Why?
Origin of deez nuts - English Language Usage Stack Exchange Berkeley High School Slang Dictionary - Page 26 Rick Ayers - 2004 Deez-nuts (deez nutz) n , Literally, these testicles Used to refer to oneself "I'm not going to let anyone mess with deez-nuts " Also: Negative response to a question “Hey, pass that joint ” “Deez-nuts ” [Origin : Hip Hop] A 1985 reference: The New Partridge Dictionary of Slang and UnconventionalThe New Partridge
word choice - What differences are there between annually, yearly . . . Either annually or yearly can and frequently does replace ‘every year’ as none of the phrases is limited by the number of occurrences, except to the extent that what happens twice a year is strictly biannual, not twice annually There is no difference at all among ‘annually’, ‘yearly’ or 'every year' and Longmans and Oxford Online don’t think there is All their examples are
Which one is correct: 1yr or 1yr. or 1 yr? I need to put one of the above on one of my app's buttons Bonus question - does the same rule hold in plural? That is if I write "1 yr ", do I write "15 yrs " as well?
The meaning and usage of Dinner is served Come along then, Sir Callaghan—I will bring yee and the lady together after deener, and then we shall see hoo yee will make yeer advances in love, In this instance, the servant addresses both the host and his guest A servant addresses only the host with a similar announcement in Arthur Murphy, The Old Maid (1761): SERVANT Dinner is served, Sir
Sober as a judge vs. Drunk as a lord. Why judge? Why lord? Sober as a judge is a simile that is used for someone completely sober Drunk as a lord is a simile that is used for someone completely drunk Why is judge equated with sobriety and lord with insob
What was a century called before it was called century? The term century in the more common connotation that refers to a period of 100 years is relatively recent: The Modern English meaning is attested from 1650s, short for century of years (1620s) (