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- grammaticality - Is the phrase for free correct? - English Language . . .
A friend claims that the phrase for free is incorrect Should we only say at no cost instead?
- orthography - Free stuff - swag or schwag? - English Language . . .
My company gives out free promotional items with the company name on it Is this stuff called company swag or schwag? It seems that both come up as common usages—Google searching indicates that the
- Free of vs. Free from - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
If so, my analysis amounts to a rule in search of actual usage—a prescription rather than a description In any event, the impressive rise of "free of" against "free from" over the past 100 years suggests that the English-speaking world has become more receptive to using "free of" in place of "free from" during that period
- What is the opposite of free as in free of charge?
What is the opposite of free as in "free of charge" (when we speak about prices)? We can add not for negation, but I am looking for a single word
- etymology - Origin of the phrase free, white, and twenty-one . . .
The fact that it was well-established long before OP's 1930s movies is attested by this sentence in the Transactions of the Annual Meeting from the South Carolina Bar Association, 1886 And to-day, “free white and twenty-one,” that slang phrase, is no longer broad enough to include the voters in this country
- Does the sign Take Free make sense? - English Language Usage Stack . . .
2 The two-word sign "take free" in English is increasingly used in Japan to offer complimentary publications and other products Is the phrase, which is considered kind of trendy in Japan, also used in English-speaking countries with the same meaning? Does it make sense to native English speakers?
- What is the difference between free rider and free loader?
Free ride dates back to 1880, while free loader is a more recent construction “freeloader (n ) also free-loader, by 1939, from free (adj ) + agent noun from load (v )As a verb, freeload is attested by 1967 and probably is a back-formation from this”
- What is the opposite of free, as in gluten-free free of gluten?
3 There is no universal one-word replacement for -free In the context of foods the appropriate portmanteau is gluten-containing -containing can be used universally, although there are other alternatives depending on specific food components (eg, sugared for sugar-free)
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