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How did “acker” come to mean friend in West Country English? acker a friend Somerset usage; the jazz musician Acker Bilk, born in Pensford, Somerset, took his professional name from this dialect word But the lack of any recorded mention of acker in this sense before the rise of Acker Bilk is striking—and somewhat puzzling The slang term may be older than Mr Bilk, but if so it led a remarkably
Why is t sometimes pronounced like d in American English? Consonant softening (voiceless plosives becoming voiced, etc ) is normal in human language, although it is more likely (or, probably, simply faster to occur) between unstressed vowels
noone, no one or no-one? - English Language Usage Stack Exchange "no one" is the correct one noone is the common misspelling of "no one" "Noone" is formed for consistency with "nobody", and also its opposites "anyone" and "everyone", but it is still considered nonstandard because of the doubled vowels creating a temptation to read and pronounce it as "noon" ( nuːn )
What is the difference between and and in writing? The choice as to which to use comes down to the degree of formality of your text, and possibly also how much space you have available (e g when putting together a PowerPoint slide)
grammar - Complete sentences with no subject? - English Language . . . Many -- perhaps most -- actual utterances are not complete sentences Listen to any conversation between people who know each other it's full of elided subjects and objects and verbs because they're taken for granted and people who already understand them don't feel like dotting all their I's and crossing all their T's in private conversation
Difference between etymologies of allocable and allocatable Mr KRUTTSCHNITT There was a good deal in his [Mr Acker's] testimony about the segregation of passenger and freight expenses—a good deal said about expenses on the Lehigh Valley road I am one of those who long ago ceased trying to do that Just to show you how little that amounts to, I read the Atchison testimony of Mr Kenna very carefully
Is it always necessary to use and or or at the end of a list? The conjunction can be omitted if the series is perfectly clear without it Words Into Type (Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1974) gives an example: “We noticed the misery, the suffering, the hardships, that lay hidden in the neighborhood ”