- Lighter vs. brighter - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
I'm trying to find information about the grammatical correctness of interchanging lighter and brighter in the sense of: I turned on the lamp and the room became lighter I turned on the lamp
- Which is higher — hyper-, ultra- or super-?
According to OED, hyper-: over, beyond, over much, above measure ultra-: beyond super-: over, above, higher than They all have the meaning "higher than", but what is the order of them
- Word that means the opposite of what you would expect
This word might be used to express the surprise that a teenager's grandmother uses text messaging much more than he does, or that a city seems brighter at night than it does during the day I'm not seeking the word ironic or irony which refer to the use of something to describe its opposite experience or emotion
- Abbreviation “n. d. ” in citation? - English Language Usage Stack . . .
I’ve just come across “n d ” used as an abbreviation, as a bibliographic reference in an academic essay, along the lines of: Smith (n d ) discusses the subaquaeous pliability of rattan fibres… Is
- meaning - I would want to vs. I would like to - English Language . . .
What is your exact context? For most purposes you should probably stick to saying what you would like to do But, consider I will come to your party tonight, but I probably won't stay long If John isn't there to drive us back, I would want to leave before midnight to catch the last bus I find want better than like there, because idiomatically speaking I would like [to do X] has become so
- pejorative language - Word for someone seeming deep and intelligent . . .
What is the word for someone trying to seem be deep and intelligent, but really they are shallow, and not at all being insightful Pedant is about rules, so that is disqualified, the closest I could
- Is the phrase “nitty-gritty” racist? - English Language Usage . . .
A BBC article, dated 15 May 2002, asserts the expression nitty-gritty is banned from British politics (and also by police services) due to its supposedly disagreeable origin The emphasis in bold i
- punctuation - Is there an Oxford semicolon? - English Language . . .
To quote your first source, "The semicolon can be used to sort out a complicated list containing many items, many of which themselves contain commas " This being so, it seems madness not to include the final, "Oxford" semicolon in such a list; the case for it is surely even stronger than for the Oxford comma If it is indeed necessary (as it seems to me), and is not a matter of personal style
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