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- When is it appropriate to use non-breaking spaces? [closed]
The usage of a non-breaking space is explained in a Wikipedia article under Non-breaking spaces and Controlling line breaks and below in items 1 and 5: It is advisable to use a non-breaking space (also known as a hard space) to prevent the end-of-line displacement of elements that would be awkward at the beginning of a new line: in expressions in which figures and abbreviations (or symbols
- Whats the origin of the saying, Theres no accounting for taste?
It's an English adaptation of a Latin saying: De gustibus non est disputandum Meaning literally regarding taste, there is no dispute The phrase seems to be of medieval origin The origin is accepted as Scholastic writings because of the grammar, which is atypical A more faithful Latin rendering of the phrase might be: De gustatibus non disputandum There's some uncertainty about whether
- Is Jack of all trades, master of none really just a part of a longer . . .
Variants that are relative newcomers As for the suggested longer expression "Jack of all trades, master of none, but better than a master of one," the earliest matches I could find for it are two instances from 2007 From Drum magazine (2007) [combined snippets]: The full phrase is actually " Jack of all trades, master of none, though ofttimes better than master of one " Being multi-skilled
- Is non-life-threatening punctuated correctly with two hyphens?
The bound morpheme non is the negator for life-threatening here, so 'life-threatening' is more coherent This does not come across with nonlife-threatening, which would seem to imply a threat to non-life Leaving non stranded doesn't work either as it is a bound morpheme, a prefix not a word (in English) I'd use the two hyphens
- What does the term nonrecourse deduction mean?
Non-recourse deductions are deductions related to non-recourse debt For example, if the asset you're using to collateralize the non-recourse loan depreciates over time, that depreciation could be written off as a non-recourse deduction Non-recourse deductions are treated differently from other deductions because the borrower's liability is
- compounds - Dash after the prefix non - English Language Usage . . .
To record and summarize the discussion in the comments, while the OED mostly uses the hyphen, many other dictionaries don't, and the ngrams show higher non-hyphenated usage than hyphenated
- Using non- to prefix a two-word phrase - English Language Usage . . .
25 Does "non-" prefixed to a two word phrase permit another hyphen before the second word? If I want to refer to an entity which is defined as the negation of another entity by attaching "non-" it seems strange to attach the "non-" only to the first word when the second one is really the word naming the entity For example, non-control freak
- Are there other well-known examples of the type Illigitimi non . . .
2 Illegitimi non carborundum, mock-Latin for "don't let the bastards grind you down", dates to early WWII, and later in the war was adopted by Gen "Vinegar" Joe Stillwell as his motto For more, including variants, see Wikipedia Do users have any other well-known examples of this type: an English phrase translated into mock-Latin?
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