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- Etymological origin of deosil and widdershins
Deosil comes from Gaelic (both the Irish and Scottish forms, found as deiseil, deiseal and deasal), and means "right", being the direction one turns when going clockwise
- Are names of chemicals not proper nouns?
Product names which are derived after an inventor's name will often remain capitalized, though not always (e g the petroleum distillate used to power trucks and locomotives is called "diesel" rather than "Diesel" even though it's named after the inventor of the four-stroke compression-ignition engine for which that fuel was formulated)
- Same adjective for two nouns - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
Likewise "diesel engines and fuel" – that must mean all fuel, they will say But if you're trying to craft lawyer-proof text, I take your point I don't think anything is proof against such perversity, and the hyphen suggestion is nonsense, so maybe you'd better bite the bullet and keep two adjectives
- word usage - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
Diesel is a name he chose to adopt, so in saying it is no accident that his name is Diesel he was referring to the fact that the name Diesel was a deliberate choice he made Assuming he made the choice because of his interest in cars then it is not a coincidence either He was basically saying "this is why I call myself Diesel"
- Origin of the phrase, Theres more than one way to skin a cat.
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- formality - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
It is not grammatical to say "the oversupply and overconsumption of diesel than what is socially optimal" One problem is that the presence of the nouns "oversupply" and "overconsumption" does not warrant the use of the word "than" The word "than" is used with a preceding adjective, as in the expressions "higher than" or "greater than"
- World-famous vs internationally recognized
Internationally recognised is a bit more modest than world-famous in that recognition is milder than fame At the same time it's a more significant boast in that we tend only to use recognised about people who are commendable
- Origin of the phrase Now were cooking with
Origin Gas cookers began to replace wood-burners around 1915, and the actual phrase was used by Hollywood radio comedians around December 1939, and then appropriated by gas companies to promote gas cooking from around 1941 onwards
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