May 16, 2024 · Yes, there is precedent for dropping apostrophes. Lots of words we commonly use today are abbreviations of the original words. Words like phone which is short for telephone, …

When writing an instruction about connecting to a computer using ssh, telnet, etc., I'm not sure what spacing to use in this familiar spoken phrase: "Log in to host.com" "Log into host.com" …

I just googled the difference between as long as and so long as. The difference has alredy been discussed here. There are, it seems, two contexts for these expressions: lengths and physical …

Apr 1, 2020 · In most American dialects, /ʊ/ is high, back, lax, and rounded; it has a limited distribution, appearing only in stressed syllables. [ʌ] is the allophone of the central phoneme …

Jun 18, 2023 · Merriam-Webster arguably lists the sense of the highly polysemous verb 'take' used in the first example: take [10]e (2): to use up (space, time, etc.) [require] it takes a long …

Dec 6, 2019 · It is idiomatic to drop the 'since': 'As a matter of practice, larger issuers have long voluntarily offered more forward-looking information than was strictly required'. But it's rather …

According to the Online Etymological Dictionary, lam means: "flight," as in on the lam, 1897, from a U.S. slang verb meaning "to run off" (1886), of uncertain origin, perhaps somehow from the first

Dec 1, 2015 · For my money, log on to a system or log in to a system are interchangeable, and depend on the metaphor you are using (see comment on your post). I suppose there is a small …

Jun 14, 2018 · When is there reason to prefer "along with" over "alongside", or vice versa? Received feedback, re a wedding invite: Jane and Simon, alongside Sam and Diane [i.e. …

Feb 21, 2016 · @Lawrence: Do you mean that in the first one I am asking the other person to excuse me for asking a question, and in the second one I am asking the other person to …