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- Nana or Nanna? (When Referring to Grandmother)
1 So, according to the Oxford Dictionary (English Dictionary), Nana is defined as one's grandmother, and Nanna redirects to Nana According to Dictionary com (American Dictionary), Nana is one's grandmother, and Nanna is "The wife of Balder" (Scandinavian Mythology) or "The Sumerian god of the moon: the counterpart of the Akkadian god Sin"
- Does nana mean just grandmother or grandmother from fathers or . . .
Gran, for instance, was my paternal grandfather, but many people call their grandmothers that To my cousins (father's brother's children) he was Papa, and their mother's mother was Nanna How these names or nicknames are used varies from family to family with no general lexical agreement
- word choice - Grandma and Nan, origins and differences? - English . . .
Etymonline also notes that nanna is also a Greek word for aunt Grandma has similar origins The word mama is a child's form of mother In languages like German and English, the parents of one's parents have the grand- prefix applied to create their names The original form of grandma was grandmama (18th century, OED)
- what is the meaning of like a stick of rock here? [closed]
You are right in saying that "rock" here refers to the confectionery From Wikipedia's article: "These cylinders usually have a pattern embedded throughout the length, which is often the name of the resort where the rock is sold, so that the name can be read on both ends of the stick (reversed at one end) and remains legible even after pieces are bitten off " This is a distinctive, notable
- When should Mom and Dad be capitalized? - English Language Usage . . .
When you are using the word "Dad" to refer to a specific person, it's standing in place of their name, and thus, like their name, would be capitalized When you're talking about dads in general, it's a common noun Say you had a horse named Betsy and were re-writing the sentence to refer to her: The one thing I learned from my horse was that it was good to earn the trust of one's children
- grammar - How can I express what I study? - English Language Usage . . .
how can I express properly what I study and in which year I actually am? is the following correct: I'am studying a bachelor in computer sciences, I'am in my third year I also tried to translate
- have vs. have got in American and British English
I have looked through several questions and answers on EL amp;U, and often there is an indication that American English prefers "have" while British English prefers "have got" In addition, there are
- grammar - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
Technical Explanation In their professional linguistics paper on “Restricting suffix combinations in English and German” from pp 451–490 of the journal Natural Language Linguistic Theory, Vol 20, № 3 (August 2002), authors Mark Aronoff and Nanna Fuhrhop write: Although English morphology has a highly productive Latinate component, the fact that only the Germanic suffixes obey the
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