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- In British English, should it be licensee or licencee?
We all know that quot;license quot; in American English is quot;licence quot; in British English But what about the person to whom the licence is given? Various dictionaries show the 'c' versio
- Whats the difference between licensing and licensure?
On the new Engineering SE, we field questions about professional engineering registration The tag categorizing these questions is "licensure" and I usually find myself referring to the topic by that
- I didnt realize - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
"I didn't realize there were times you inadvertently dramatized things" This refers to the past "I didn't realize there are times you inadvertently dramatize things " The first part refers to the past and the second part in the present tense suggests a general, ongoing state regarding the other person This question has been answered in various forms several times I thought the Moon was
- Havent we? vs Dont we? - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
We have plenty of time, don't we? We have plenty of time, haven't we? Which is correct - 1 or 2? They have already sent you the invitation, didn't they? They have already sent you the invitation, h
- What are the differences between inverse, reverse, and converse?
Late to the party: if your original statement is P => Q, then the converse is Q => P and the inverse is !P => !Q It happens that the inverse and the converse are logically equivalent, but they are both ways of obtaining statements that are related but logically non-equivalent to the original statement In contrast the obverse applies to statements of the form "For each s P (s) is true" (where
- What is the difference between illicit and illegal?
I like this answer best because it's brief and to the point About the only relevant information missing is mention of the finer nuance as to why people ever use illicit rather than illegal I think it's normally either because the writer wishes to emphasis that the debarring authority is something other than law, or to indicate less than total endorsement of the particular law involved
- Thru vs. through - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
Slang is “very informal usage in vocabulary and idiom that is characteristically more metaphorical, playful, elliptical, vivid, and ephemeral than ordinary language” Since thru is the exact same word as through, it cannot possibly be considered slang Spelling is always an approximation anyway; spoken language is primary Now, if you and your friends used bazinga to mean "through", that
- Why does law use assigns instead of assignees?
Assign is typically a verb Only in legal writing do we see it used as a noun, meaning "the entity to which something is assigned," and usually as part of a "successors and assigns" clause Every
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