- Free of vs. Free from - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
So free from is used to indicate protection from something problematic, and free of (which doesn't correspond neatly to freedom of) is used to indicate the absence of something: this shampoo is free of parabens Therefore: The people were free from the barbaric dictator The mashed potatoes were free of lumps I wish I could get rid of this
- orthography - Free stuff - swag or schwag? - English Language . . .
My company gives out free promotional items with the company name on it Is this stuff called company swag or schwag? It seems that both come up as common usages—Google searching indicates that the bias is slightly towards swag Can anybody provide any definite proof of the root of the word and which one is more correct?
- How to ask about ones availability? free available not busy?
Saying free or available rather than busy may be considered a more "positive" enquiry It may also simply mean that you expect the person to be busy rather than free, rather than the other way round Saying available rather than free is considered slightly more formal, though I wouldn't worry much about usage cases (Most people wouldn't think
- etymology - Origin of the phrase free, white, and twenty-one . . .
Bartlett Whiting, Modern Proverbs and Proverbial Sayings (1989) cites instances of "free, white and twenty-one" as a proverbial phrase going back to 1932, in Cecil Gregg, The Body Behind the Bar: A Tale of Inspector Higgins: "She's free, white, and twenty-one " (Oddly enough, Gregg was a British writer and this mystery novel was published in
- On Saturday afternoon or in the Saturday afternoon?
The choice of prepositions depends upon the temporal context in which you're speaking "On ~ afternoon" implies that the afternoon is a single point in time; thus, that temporal context would take the entire afternoon as one of several different afternoons, or in other words, one would use "on" when speaking within the context of an entire week
- What is the word for when someone gives you something for free instead . . .
From en wiktionary, freebie means “(informal) Something which is free; a giveaway or handout” Thus, the item given you is a freebie; it was given to you gratis or on the house, as mentioned in previous answers, or free of charge If you had purchased something, and another item were thrown in for free, the term lagniappe could be used
- meaning - What is free-form data entry? - English Language Usage . . .
If you are creating a column for free-form data entry, such as a notes column to hold data about customer interactions with your company’s customer service department, then varchar will probably be adequate If you are storing documents, however, you should choose either the mediumtext or longtext type
- In a tournament, do I get a by, a bye, or a buy?
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