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grammaticality - Behave as if it was or it were - English Language . . . In [i] we could have as if he had been a Commonwealth citizen, with the perfect marking backshift (or past time) and the preterite marking modal remoteness; it is, however, much more usual in such contexts to have an irrealis or simple preterite after as if though than a preterite perfect
s vs. z in BE vs. AE - English Language Usage Stack Exchange 12 I have trouble understanding why some words change "s"-es to "z"-s from BE to AE and some not For example: analyse -> analyze characterise -> characterize hypnotise -> hypnotize But: compromise -> compromise Is there any rule to this? Slightly related: Why isn't "citizen" spelled as "citisen" in British English?
Difference between civic rights and civil rights The term Civic Rights would have limited use with regard to an individual citizen As to whether the two terms, Civil Rights and Civic Rights, are interchangeable, they are not in most cases Civic applies to rights as a member official with regard to their community Civil applies to inalienable rights of the person
What would be the proper usage of Qua in a sentence? The quotation from Handler is actually the most interesting thing about this entry, because it illustrates that qua continues to be used especially in situations involving exact mirroring of a thing as itself ("scientist qua scientist") and not as often in structurally similar situations involving a thing as something else ("scientist as citizen")
etymology - English Language Usage Stack Exchange The newspaper asserts that the complaints—variously "diabolical lies" and "atrocious lies"—were politically motivated and utterly false So the Pulaski Citizen 's editorial outlook is clearly strongly anti-Reconstruction (as was the Klan's, when it emerged as a powerful political force in the U S South)
Is Yankee derogatory? - English Language Usage Stack Exchange Southern US citizen regarding Northern US citizen -- This can be more refined to "Those who stayed in the Union during the US Civil War" were called Yankees by those who seceded to the Confederacy
meaning - What does a man of leisure do exactly? What is the . . . A man of leisure is a man who has a source of income that does not require him to do any work Running Mr Dorrit's boarding school presumably did not require much of his time Perhaps he employed a headmaster and would only be present a few times each year British National Corpus The British National Corpus finds this use of the phrase in The Economist 1991: "Mr Hoi returned home in August
acronyms - English Language Usage Stack Exchange "British citizen" is the statutory name of citizenship of the UK, so it's not so much a choice of the government (in the sense of the particular set of ministers in place at any given time) as of parliament
How is the word qua used? - English Language Usage Stack Exchange The two nouns (or pronouns) must be present, one denoting the person or thing in all aspects (he), and the other singling out one of his or its aspects (lover, or citizen) " This was the only way in which Fowler preferred the word be used, but in fact (notes Burchfield), it's often used in other ways:
meaning - English Language Usage Stack Exchange What does the statement Once I did bad and that I heard ever Twice I did good and that I heard never mean? In what situations is it meaningful?