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- Nowadays versus now days [closed] - English Language Usage Stack . . .
The Corpus of Contemporary American English does have a few cites for now days, but frankly, just look at the figures yourself: nowadays 3167 now days 7 And here are the figures from the British National Corpus: nowadays 1556 now days 0 That's how tiny a minority you're in For once, the spellchecker is actually right
- Does the term within 7 days mean include the 7th day?
There's also the perennial question of whether the last day ends on the multiple of 24 hours from the time when the deadline was given, if it means midnight of that day, or closing time of that day, or what And does "7 days" mean 7 calendar days, or 7 business days? Etc
- word choice - What are the abbreviations for days of the week . . .
It will be used in a tabular data program to show information about free work days of employed and each column can't have enought space to include full week day name For "common form" I mean, what are the abbreviations that is more used in programs
- Meaning of within 30 days of [a certain date in the future] in context?
I am required to submit a certain form "within 30 days of [a certain date in the future]" I suspect that the form's author actually meant to say something like "at least 30 days before [a certain date]"
- What is the difference between: two-day and two days
0 two days refers to the number of days two-day refers to the duration of something If you are French, think about the difference between jour and journee
- is there a difference between last 2 days and past 2 days
The past 2 days refers to the 2 days preceding the moment of speaking So it cannot be used as above Since ' last 2 days ' seems a bit more general, you can also use it to indicate the termination of current period, i e to refer to the 2 days before the moment of speaking, in which case it becomes equivalent to ' past 2 days '
- writing - How to write date range succinctly and unambiguously in . . .
Otherwise, I feel that "5 12 - 7 21, 2012" is succinct and attractive If you want days of the week, "Mon 5 12 - Fri 7 21, 2012" is OK If that looks bad to you, throw some commas after Mon and Fri If it still looks bad, there's simply no pleasing you Long live American date format!
- punctuation - Are y, m, and d the singular and plural . . .
Final question on this Would anybody personally support the punctuation in EVERY example below? The project lasted 2 hours 5 minutes 20 seconds a 2-hour 5-minute 20-second marathon The project lasted 1 year 8 months 3 days a 1-year 8-month 3-day project If we use 'and', I think the following could work without the commas
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