- More Bored Vs Boreder - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
"Boreder" might be considered "legal" according to some guidelines, but is to be avoided because of the likely confusion with "border"
- adjectives - East Coast, East coast, or east coast? - English Language . . .
The 'Home Counties' is the collective name given to the six counties which border London, but I am always at a loss as to whether to apply capitals I think I will compose a question on this
- single word requests - What is the name of the area of skin between the . . .
The pink parts are called the upper and lower vermilion, the border between the skin and the vermilion is called the vermilion border, the wet, shiny inner portion of what people call the "lips" is called the wet vermilion or the mucosa So, you see, Elliot has given you the accurate response How do I know?
- capitalization - To capitalize or not to capitalize southern . . .
It only loosely defines a region of California and its border is not officially defined either However, I was recently advised by someone who I consider to be educated to capitalize "southern" in this context
- Should the words city state province be capitalized (if not . . .
In your second example, "city" should not be capitalized Words for governmental or administrative units are only capitalized when they are used as part of a proper noun, such as the formal name of a city Your first example is correct so long as you're referring to the City of New York, as the formal name for New York However, if I were simply using the word "city" to disambiguate and not as
- single word requests - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
1 It depends on the morphology and the boundaries of the country Coastal road highway is an example of a road running along the border of a country partly surrounded by the sea A more generic expression is border road!
- Origin of the idiom go south - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
What's the origin of the idiom go south? Why is it go south only? Why not go southwest or go east? Are the direction-related idioms go south, go north, go east, and go west correlated? Example, go
- periphery and perimeter — are they the same? [closed]
On the other hand, a state border is a defined, measurable boundary, or perimeter The conceptual "periphery" of a city center may lie within or outside of the city's state border, or perimeter The NY Metro area, for example, includes peripheral suburbs in NJ and CT
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