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- Entry(s) or Entrie(s)? - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
Well, it's very easy to rule out the first option (since “entrys” is not a word) Let's forget the prepositional phrase (“of N word-to-be-decided”) for now How would you phrase the sentence with varying numbers? “0 entry selected” or “0 entries selected”? (Ignoring that many style guides will tell you spell out the numeral), the latter is correct “1 entry selected" or “1
- technical - Terminating punctuation in table entries - English Language . . .
I always get a little flustered by the question of how to punctuate the end of each of my table entries, where the table is part of a longer document primarily composed of traditional sentences but
- Whats the capitalization rule for tabulated entries? [closed]
Column heads and stubs [entries in the leftmost column of the table] must match one another in style across a series of tables Spelling, capitalization, punctuation, abbreviations, and symbols must likewise be regularized
- Is Selected 1 of 1 Entries correct pluralization?
Selected 1 of 1 available entries (Wrong by analogy) Using “1 of 1 entries” probably sounds right because it’s very common the “1 of” implies that there is more than one available, and therefore entries might be expected to follow it but just because “everyone does it” doesn’t make it correct
- The Oxford Comma and its relation to a list with only two entries . . .
The sentence is as follows: I work in disaster management and prevention, and international aid and development 2 Questions: Can a list include just two entries as above? Can the Oxford comma be
- Distribution of slang term “opp” - English Language Usage Stack . . .
The mainstream dictionary entries seem to be either for "opp" meaning "opportunity" (as in "business opp", "job opp"), or as an abbreviation for terms such as "opposite" or "opus" So I think the hip-hop slang is probably a separate coinage
- meaning - Duplicate data or duplicated data? - English Language . . .
Duplicate Data: Entries that have been added by a system user multiple times, for example, re-registering because you have forgotten your details Duplicated Data: Someone has deliberately taken a precise duplicate of the data - or a proportion of it - maybe for backup or reporting purposes It may have been accidentally added to the original
- What’s the origin etymology of “mm-bye”? - slang
Urban Dictionary includes entries for "m-bye" in the relevant sense from April 15, 2008, and May 10, 2010 The latter entry claims that the expression is "Common colloquialism in rural western United States " As with anything else in Urban Dictionary, the claims about origin are not objectively reliable—since they rest on bald assertion—but at least these entries establish that "m-bye" has
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