- word choice - Is sans a drop-in replacement for without? - English . . .
As others said, sans does mean without However, in my experience it is used only to modify a noun, not a verb phrase However, in my experience it is used only to modify a noun, not a verb phrase So your "sans using" example feels very wrong to me, but "sans serif", "sans pickles", etc are fine
- Is there a common abbreviation for with or without? e. g. w wo or w w o
The abbreviation opt meaning optional or option for is an alternative to "with or without" This is my suggestion: If a key item is acceptable with or without a sub item then I recommend the use of the abbreviation for Optional (opt ) sandwich recipe suggestion: buns, beef, onion, opt mustard or mustard (opt ),
- meaning - Is the opposite of within, without? - English Language . . .
without in the sense of "outside, on the outside, beyond the borders or boundaries of" is primarily a literary usage nowadays, but it has been used with that meaning for more than a thousand years with respect to buildings as well as land boundaries and other things that have an inside and an outside, which would even include people, who might
- phrases - Without any problem or without any problems - English . . .
Normally one would just say without problem, skipping the any altogether It doesn’t really add anything to speak of, and just makes the phrase longer But I certainly wouldn’t call without any problems (or with no problems) ‘wrong’
- Possessive nouns, the apostrophe, and no S
By focusing on grammatical number (plurality) instead of on sound laws governing inflectional morphology, you lose sight of what actually matters for any of these: these children’s toys, those mice’s droppings, some women’s husbands, those geese’s nests, all phenomena’s explanations, these corpora’s common origin, those nuclei’s organelles, this species’ name, these species
- Are w o, w , b c common abbreviations in the US?
I've seen w o for without; I don't recall ever seeing w or b c; I certainly wouldn't say that they are in common 'public' usage, and would suggest they are best reserved for private usage, note-taking, etc
- Is there a short term for without a date of expiry?
I would simply use the term non-expiring For example, in Washington state, one can obtain a non-expiring license for child care
- alphabet - Is there a sentence containing every letter without . . .
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