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- pronunciation - Why is Sean pronounced Shawn? - English Language . . .
Sean (written "Seán" or "Séan" in Irish) is a Hibernization of the English name "John"; that is, it's a transliteration of "John" into a form which can be pronounced in Irish and written with the Irish alphabet (which nowadays is simply a version of the Roman alphabet)
- and me or me and. . . - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
Possible Duplicate: ldquo;Me and my wife rdquo; or ldquo;my wife and me rdquo; I keep seeing that it's just courtesy to put yourself last in a list of nouns eg "They went to the game with S
- Comma positioning between title and name and conjunction
Which is the proper way to write this sentence: Rmt, LLC will be managed by Sally Red, CEO and Sean Brown, COO OR Rmt, LLC will be managed by Sally Red CEO, and Sean Brown COO (Comma between
- What is the proper way to say possesive with person X and self?
Possible Duplicate: My wife and I #39;s seafood collaboration dinner I've never known what the proper way to use a sentence in which you and a specific person (as in you can't just say "our" be
- You can contact John, Jane or me (myself) for more information
The use of "myself" and similar reflexives for emphasis is normal English usage of the word This particular speaker wanted to place emphasis on the fact that they personally were one of the people you could contact for information Some dictionaries even list this definition first: (used as an intensive of me or I): I myself will challenge the winner - dictionary reference com It is commonly
- What is the origin history of you do you (or do you)?
The full phrase this originated from is " do you and I'll do me " Another variation is " do you - cuz I'mma do me " The oldest reference to the phrase that I could find is from the song Do You by Funkmaster Flex (featuring DMX), from the album Volume IV, released on December 5, 2000 This could be a variation of the phrase " do your thing ", which has been in use for at least a century
- What is Oki-doki or Oki-dokie or Okay-dokay
For the same reason you suggested Oki-doki -- it's easier to say than okay-dokay Changing one letter from okay to okey keeps a resemblance with the original -- if ever it should need to be written down, which isn't often
- What does the verb nig mean? - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
Sean C acts as an agent provocateur who specializes in multimedia “shock-art” that is deliberately as iconoclastic as possible—-mocking all aspects of modern culture’s double-standards, violating all its taboos, and holding the funhouse mirror (as it were) up to society’s shadow-face
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