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- meaning - What is the distinction between “role” and “rôle” [with a . . .
My comment in the previous thread sums it up: the rôle of rôle is now being played by role The plain English spelling has entirely supplanted the old spelling in modern usage; I wouldn't be at all surprised if more than ninety percent of the occurrences of rôle in the past fifty years were in discussions of whether to use rôle or role when
- prepositions - Plays a role in or at doing something? - English . . .
play a part play a role If something or someone plays a part or plays a role in a situation, they are involved in it and have an effect on it They played a part in the life of their community The U N would play a major role in monitoring a ceasefire (Collins Dictionary) Also Google Books shows that play a role in is the more common
- Job title vs. job role - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
A "job role" is a description of what a person does A "job title" is a convenient name for a role For example: At my last job, my role was to write code that helped us be sure that our product worked as well as we thought it did
- Role or Roles - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
Or is there one role under each, but those two roles are different? Then use roles If Party One has Role ABC, Party Two also has Role ABC, and neither has any other roles, then use role If Party One has Role ABC, and Party Two has Role XYZ, then use roles If Party One has Role ABC and Role XYZ, and Party Two has Role ABC and Role XYZ, then
- What is the significance of the “ô” character in “rôle” in this work?
@z7sg - it's easier now to spell foreign names correctly with accents but as foreign words become English then they lose them Role and naive are now pretty much English words We don't spell sky as ský because that's what it was in Norse –
- etymology - Origin of idiom wearing the lt; role gt; hat? - English . . .
What is the origin of the idiom "wearing the < role > hat"? Here is an example from the post Getting things done when you wear multiple hats in PookieMD's Blog : I wear many hats, and I suppose you do as well
- Is someone granted a role said to be roled? Or rolled?
The OED does, in fact, define "role" as a transitive verb in the fashion you are describing role v trans -- To provide with a role indicator Cited use: The presence of the connective merely ensures that the first word in the multi-word phrase is roled and stored Program · 1976
- single word requests - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
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