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Whats the equivalent phrase in the UK for I plead the fifth? There is no such equivalent phrase that I know of for any English-speaking country However thanks to the prevalence of US media, the phrase "plead the fifth" or "take the fifth" is widely recognized outside the US, and is frequently used in general conversation In most jurisdictions that derive from the British system, a defendant may decline to testify in court However once they have agreed
range inclusion - English Language Usage Stack Exchange In my opinion "starting on" and "till" don't really go together so I wouldn't use option 1 The phrasing "on leave from X till Y" can be misinterpreted to mean that Y will be your first day back at work, so I wouldn't use option 3 without adding " (inclusive)" Also phrasing it as a range from one date to another sounds odd to me when you're talking about only two days in total Option 2
pronunciation - How to write out dates correctly - English Language . . . "5th May" would be the most traditional way to write this date I have never seen "of" used in a written date, except in extremely archaic constructions such as legal contracts "signed and witnessed this 5th day of May 2012" (Parenthetically, I note that in English law this makes absolutely no difference to validity
In sex talk, how many bases are there and what do they all mean? I always hear people say "I hit the third base" or "I hit the second base" (sex related) I am not 100% sure what they all mean Additionally, in one of the House MD episodes, there was a dialogue
1st percentile, 2nd percentile. . . But how to say 2. 5th percentile? 5 It is necessary for me to write about the 2 5th and 97 5th percentiles of a data set What is the correct way of writing this? This post talks about "zeroth", "n-th" and even "epsilonth" as generalisations of the -th suffix, but I haven't found any guidelines for non-integers I feel that 2 5th percentile sounds better than 2 5-percentile
phrases - Third wheel or fifth wheel? - English Language Usage . . . Conclusions The rapid rise of "like a third wheel" indicates that this version of the idiom has gained considerable momentum in popular usage since 1970 Still, usage of "like a fifth wheel" remains quite popular, too, so if we are in a transitional phase from having "like a fifth wheel" as the dominant form to having "like a third wheel" as the dominant form, we are only now at the crossover
How to refer to a specific floor of a building Capitalisation implies that the name has been elevated to have meaning in its own right, not just as a literal description For example, if the mezzanine between the 1st and what was the 2nd floor was converted to be the 2nd floor, what had been the 4th floor would become the 5th floor but might be referred to as "the 4th Floor" Similarly, say a company owned two bookstores, and in the