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- etymology - Why shrink (of a psychiatrist)? - English Language . . .
I know it originates from "head shrinking", but it doesn't help me a lot to understand the etymology Why are psychiatrists called that? Is it like "my head is swollen [from anguish, misery, stress
- Why does No mean Number? - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
Why does English use "No " as an abbreviation for "Number"? It's a preserved scribal abbreviation like the ampersand (formed by eliding the letters of et to mean and) The OED has it in use from the 8th century, based on the ablative numerō used for an implied preposition in: X in or according to number It also gets used by the French based on numéro, which produced Wiktionary's erroneous
- Why is pineapple in English but ananas in all other languages?
The question is: why did the English adapt the name pineapple from Spanish (which originally meant pinecone in English) while most European countries eventually adapted the name ananas, which came from the Tupi word nanas (also meaning pineapple)
- Why should the first person pronoun I always be capitalized?
Why should we capitalize the first person pronoun 'I' even when it does not appear at the beginning of a sentence? Why is it not the case for other pronouns?
- “John Doe”, “Jane Doe” - Why are they used many times?
There is no recorded reason why Doe, except there was, and is, a range of others like Roe So it may have been a set of names that all rhymed and that law students could remember Or it could be that they were formed from a mnemonic, like the english pronouciation of a prayer or scripture in Latin Greek
- Why is ‘Earth’ often spelt with a lowercase e, even when referring to . . .
The question is specifically asking why earth is so often not capitalised when used as a proper noun @tchrist There are quite a lot of proper nouns (mostly geographical) that do take definite articles, though, and are unquestionably proper nouns: the US, the Bronx, the Thames, etc
- Why do eleven and twelve get unique words and not end in -teen?
Why don't these words fit the pattern of thirteen through nineteen? [Answer to 1] A remarkably thorough answer to (1) appears at Why do eleven and twelve get unique words and not end in "-teen"?
- writing - Why are numbers sometimes spelled out and then numerals . . .
Why are numbers sometimes spelled out and then numerals specified as well? [closed] Ask Question Asked 14 years, 8 months ago Modified 13 years, 2 months ago
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