- Correct abbreviation of engineer - English Language Usage Stack . . .
What is the correct abbreviation of engineer? In my organization, some of my colleagues use Eng and some use Engr
- abbreviations - Should I write PhD or Ph. D. ? - English Language . . .
Question pretty self-explanatory Should the abbreviation of the Latin term philosophiae doctor be written as PhD (no periods) or Ph D (with periods)?
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- Where does ta! come from? - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
Where does the expression "ta" come from? Wikipedia has only this to say: "ta!", slang, Exclam Thank you! {Informal}, an expression of gratitude but no additional information or links about its
- What is a wheal? - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
OED has wheal n 3 Etymology: < Cornish huel local A mine 1830 Eng For Mining Gloss Wheal is an Anglicisation of the Cornish word It's interesting that Wiktionary's earliest citation appears to predate OED: 1829, Thomas Moore, The History of Devonshire, page 528, The four last-mentioned mines, Wheal Crowndale, Wheal Crebor, East Liscombe, and Wheal Tamar, are on the same lode, which
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- phonetics - English words ending with -enk -eng - English Language . . .
3 Mostly because -eng, -enk didn’t survive Middle English We don’t have native words in -eng, -enk because of a regular sound-change that any such words underwent in their evolution from Old English to Middle English to Modern English For example, Old English had a verb lengen meaning to lengthen (transitively) or to linger (intransitively)
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This is strictly style manual stuff American English generally prefers using periods with abbreviations, and British English generally prefers to omit the periods Both are "correct", but which one is acceptable is a matter of who is accepting it It's not grammar or spelling, merely a punctuation convention I always omit the periods for academic degrees If a publisher wants the periods, it
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