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- Correct abbreviation of engineer - English Language Usage Stack . . .
What is the correct abbreviation of engineer? In my organization, some of my colleagues use Eng and some use Engr
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- abbreviations - Should I write PhD or Ph. D. ? - English Language . . .
Question pretty self-explanatory Should the abbreviation of the Latin term philosophiae doctor be written as PhD (no periods) or Ph D (with periods)?
- phonetics - English words ending with -enk -eng - English Language . . .
3 Mostly because -eng, -enk didn’t survive Middle English We don’t have native words in -eng, -enk because of a regular sound-change that any such words underwent in their evolution from Old English to Middle English to Modern English For example, Old English had a verb lengen meaning to lengthen (transitively) or to linger (intransitively)
- What does provision exactly mean in a legal document?
Now I'm asked to look at a legal document (here) and answer the question that which provisions apply to a certain case However, I don't know what the word 'provision' means in a legal context (Eng
- Which is correct Dr. or Dr? [duplicate] - English Language Usage . . .
Recently, I was reading articles on the net and realised that there is a lot of ambiguity over the usage of Dr and Dr, Er and Er etc I usually prefer the dot while writing Doctor (Dr ) or Engin
- Renumeration vs Remuneration (reimbursed financially), which is correct?
According to the OED renumeration remuneration are interchangeable So too are the associated verbs - renumerate remunerate However, some commentators have strong feelings about renumeration being used with its first-cited meaning (i e remuneration, see below) " to be avoided at all costs is the metathesized form renumeration " (R W Burchfield New Fowler's Mod Eng Usage (1996) 666
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