etymology - Is "volumn" a correct word? Was it ever one? - English ...
This could be an interesting question. Instances of volumn in English appear at least as early as 1550 (in William Wats's translation of St. Augustine's Confessions), and multiple instances appear in more recent Google Books search results, such …
grammaticality - When is it correct to use the "-wise" suffix ...
One of the problems with the particular example user interface-wise is that while it needs to be parsed as (user interface)-wise, the most immediate parsing would probably be user (interface-wise), since hyphens typically bind tighter than spaces.
Who changed the way vacumn was spelled 40 years ago?
2018年4月28日 · I noticed Robin Michael, who is on this site, stated she learned to spell the word 'vacuum' as "vacumn".I was also taught the same thing in school around 40 years ago; I always scored the highest in my English class and won spelling bees back then.
"huge volume of data" or "huge volumes of data" [closed]
"huge volume of data" or "huge volumes of data" Should I use a singular form or a plural form? Search in Google results in 178,000 hits vs 256,000 hits.
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Retriable or retryable? - English Language & Usage Stack Exchange
2016年2月9日 · In Google Books search results for 1900–2008, retryable (blue line) and retriable (red line) are very similar in total number of matches:
A series of three is 'trilogy'. A series of two is______?
2016年11月1日 · One should be exercise caution in describing any kind of literary work as a di- or triptych, since the listener is likely to take both words to refer to their overwhelmingly most common meanings, namely a picture/painting separated into three panels.
Is "teh" an English word? - English Language & Usage Stack …
2013年5月30日 · I remember being told that "teh" (a common misspelling of "the") is actually a proper (though very old and no longer in common usage) English word. Teh was used as an example that if every single
subcontinental english - Is 'Updation' a correct word? - English ...
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"Oriented" vs. "orientated" - English Language & Usage Stack …
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