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- Correct abbreviation of engineer - English Language Usage Stack . . .
What is the correct abbreviation of engineer? In my organization, some of my colleagues use Eng and some use Engr
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Q A for linguists, etymologists, and serious English language enthusiasts
- abbreviations - Should I write PhD or Ph. D. ? - English Language . . .
Question pretty self-explanatory Should the abbreviation of the Latin term philosophiae doctor be written as PhD (no periods) or Ph D (with periods)?
- phonetics - English words ending with -enk -eng - English Language . . .
3 Mostly because -eng, -enk didn’t survive Middle English We don’t have native words in -eng, -enk because of a regular sound-change that any such words underwent in their evolution from Old English to Middle English to Modern English For example, Old English had a verb lengen meaning to lengthen (transitively) or to linger (intransitively)
- Renumeration vs Remuneration (reimbursed financially), which is correct?
According to the OED renumeration remuneration are interchangeable So too are the associated verbs - renumerate remunerate However, some commentators have strong feelings about renumeration being used with its first-cited meaning (i e remuneration, see below) " to be avoided at all costs is the metathesized form renumeration " (R W Burchfield New Fowler's Mod Eng Usage (1996) 666
- Gay (homosexual) and gay (happy) - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
When did the main meaning of the word 'gay' shift from happy to homosexual? How did the meaning evolve, if there is a relation between the two?
- pronouns - Is it ever correct to use “the both of them,” or is it . . .
It does not seem to be an archaic usage The English Dialect Dictionary, from 1898, characterizes it as var dial uses in Irel and Eng And Ngrams shows that its usage started increasing gradually around 1900, and has increased greatly since 2000 And the book English for Everybody, by G A Miller (1924; Boston, MA) says: Do not say:— The both of them are useful, Say:— Both of them are
- Is stife a name for smoking cooking oil?
A close, suffocating atmosphere, a choking vapour or smoke, a smoky sulphurous smell (Dmf s Sc 1825 Jam ; Rxb 1923 Watson W -B ; s Sc 1971) Also in n Eng dial This would seem to apply to smoking cooking oil In other words, something that stifles; the word is apparently a back formation thereof OED attests it as far back as 1636
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