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Are w o, w , b c common abbreviations in the US? I remember when staying a few months in the US years ago that I saw some people using the abbreviations below However, I can't exactly remember in which contexts I encountered them, (whether I saw
Would have had to have been vs would have had to be for past event . . . Both would have had to have been and would have had to be are pointlessly complex for most contexts Just would have to have been (with the first have pronounced haff) is all you need And even that's only if you need Past Tense - if not, it would hafta be like this
The difference between be aimed at and aim to? The difference is between two different uses of the verb to aim One is literal and means to direct something at a target while the other is more figurative and means to have the intention to carry out a course of action or achieve a certain goal In the first case this means that we can say "I saw a man holding a gun, the gun was aimed at me"; "The stone was aimed at the window but fell short
How did the letter Z come to be associated with sleeping snoring? Edit: Another Wikipedia page: The big Z It is a convention in American comics that the sound of a snore can be reduced to a single letter Z Thus a speech bubble with this letter standing all alone (again, drawn by hand rather than a font type) means the character is sleeping in most humorous comics This can be seen, for instance, in Charles Schulz's Peanuts comic strips Being such a long
When is it necessary to use have had? I have come across a few sentences that contain "have had" I would like to know in what kind of situations we should use this combination
Synced or synched - English Language Usage Stack Exchange Which is correct: synced or synched? Is one of these American and the other British spelling or are they interchangeable? I have only ever seen sync used in the computing industry
As on 16 May vs. as of 16 May — which is correct? They are both correct for different situations For example, As on 16 May, he again failed to arrive at work on time and As of 16 May he will have worked here for a full year
grammaticality - Said objects or The said objects - English . . . Legal writing authority Bryan Garner says the following about “the said”: The said As used in legal writing, the word said is a Middle-English sibling aforesaid, having the sense "above-stated " Originally legal writers would write the said defendant -and still do in BrE-just as they would write the aforesaid defendant or the above-stated defendant In AmE, however, the was dropped before