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- Is it quit or quitted? - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
What is the correct (grammatical) simple past and past participle form of the verb quit? Is it quit or quitted? She quitted her job (She has quitted her job ) She quit her job (She has quit her
- Can An ass that wont quit connote stubbornness?
An ass that just won't quit is callipygian, not equine I have Juba to Jive: A Dictionary of African-American slang open to won't quit: outstanding; great; truly beautiful It's hard to disprove a negative, but I simply cannot idiomatically read "ass" in your text as relating to stubbornness
- Less aggressive synonym for left the company
I am looking for a single word that you would use when someone has left a company This can be because the person quit, they are fired, retired, I was thinking about Discharged but that seems li
- Alumnus vs dropout: Can you still call someone who chooses to quit . . .
If someone chooses to quit college, I can refer to that person as a “former” student of that college It therefore appears that I can use alumnus according to the definitions given for that term gi
- What is the basic difference between Quit and Give up?
Quit is more decisive way of stating action ,where as give up is more a reference to desires So the teacher was saying that you would quit not think of giving up
- The origin of “go cold turkey” - English Language Usage Stack . . .
You can use other verbs with the phrase Go is the most common, but you can also quit cold turkey, or kick something cold turkey There may be others As to the phrase's origin, Etymonline favors the "quick preparation" theory and indicates there was a period of time where it was not associated with kicking a bad habit It also curiously Cf 's cold shoulder: cold turkey "without preparation
- Did Victorians say “We are quit”? - English Language Usage Stack . . .
Is “We are quit” (meaning “We’re even, no more mutual obligations”) a usage from the 18–19th centuries? Or are the examples of this on Google hits just people making it up (possibly a bad cognate
- Is there a single word for someone who left the company that does not . . .
In a new policy from my company (non-native English, but English is the corporate language), they use the word quot;defector quot; to refer to a person who has tendered their resignation I think
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