- Origin of the phrase, Theres more than one way to skin a cat.
I couldn't find any use of the phrase earlier than the 1840 Money Diggers reference, but I did find some background to which the saying might refer Apparently the debate on cat-skinning boiled down to whether or not it was done while the cat was still alive Here's a clip from the disturbing House of Commons' Minutes of Evidence Taken Before Committee on Bill for Prevention of Cruelty to
- Should it be 10 US$ or US$ 10? - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
Which is correct to use in a sentence, 10 US$ or US$ 10 Perhaps USD should be used instead or even something else?
- How do you say 100,000,000,000,000,000,000 in words?
37 Wikipedia lists large scale numbers here As only the 10 x with x being a multiple of 3 get their own names, you read 100,000,000,000,000,000,000 as 100 * 10 18, so this is 100 quintillion in American and British English and 100 trillion in most (non-English speaking) other places
- How to write numbers and percentage? - English Language Usage Stack . . .
In general, it is good practice that the symbol that a number is associated with agrees with the way the number is written (in numeric or text form) For example, $3 instead of 3 dollars Note that this doesn't apply when the numbers are large, so it is perfectly fine to write 89 5 percent, as eighty-nine-and-a-half percent is very clunky This source puts it simply: When writing percentages
- grammatical number - Are percentages singular or plural? - English . . .
20% of the students are is present The remaining 20% of the protein form forms enzymes Singular verb or plural — which one is correct?
- How did a ton come to mean one hundred of something?
A ton is £100 (half a ton being therefore £50) This relates to a common usage in a number of contexts, for example, to do a ton is to achieve a speed of 100 miles per hour and in darts or cricket a ton is a score of 100 This is familiar enough not to seem an odd usage, even though ton is most commonly met with as a largish unit of weight
- Does a percentage quantity take singular or plural verb agreement . . .
Does a percentage require a singular or plural verb, for example, do we say ten percent "go" or "goes"?
- a 100 vs 100 - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
The flow rate increases 100-fold (one hundred-fold) Would be a more idiomatic way of saying this, however, the questioner asks specifically about the original phrasing The above Ngram search would suggest that a one hundred has always been less frequently used in written language and as such should probably be avoided Your other suggestion of by one hundred times is definitely better than a
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