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Are names of chemicals not proper nouns? - English Language Usage . . . Product names which are derived after an inventor's name will often remain capitalized, though not always (e g the petroleum distillate used to power trucks and locomotives is called "diesel" rather than "Diesel" even though it's named after the inventor of the four-stroke compression-ignition engine for which that fuel was formulated)
Throttle is to slow down, but full throttle is max speed? Originally, throttle meant throat So "full-throttle" for a motorized vehicle is like a lion's full-throated roar - the throttle throat is opened as wide as possible (for maximum throughput of fuel or air) It's just that the verb to throttle came to have the meaning choke (fatally cut off someone's air by squeezing their throat), which led to "throttling back" meaning "reduce the fuel supply
When did the insult “up yours” come into existence? The movie Blazing Saddles used everything and anything to get a laugh When the African American sheriff, newly assigned to a rural town, patrolled the main thoroughfare he happened upon an elderl
If it works, it works - English Language Usage Stack Exchange I suppose a more realistic example is the development of powered pumps, locomotives etc Newcomen's atmospheric engine did a vital job, but was bettered by Watt's improvements Trevithick's locomotive of 1804 hauled a load, but modern diesel engines work far more efficiently and reliably I'm not sure this is really an English language question
Origin of the phrase, Theres more than one way to skin a cat. There are many versions of this proverb, which suggests there are always several ways to do something The earliest printed citation of this proverbial saying that I can find is in a short story by the American humorist Seba Smith - The Money Diggers, 1840: "There are more ways than one to skin a cat," so are there more ways than one of digging for money Charles Kingsley used one old British
gerund phrases - English Language Usage Stack Exchange Even with uncountable nouns, for specific instances types, we have nouns preceded by indefinite articles as in the following examples It is cold outside! I could do with a hot tea! The old diesel
capitalization - English Language Usage Stack Exchange For example, we have: diesel, in diesel fuel and diesel engines, for inventor Rudolf Diesel (Wikipedia) leotard, for performer Jules Léotard (Wikipedia) voltaic pile, for physicist Alessandro Volta (Wikipedia) Popularity makes lowercase more likely, but shifts in usage are arbitrary and vary between individual words
on time in Chess Jargon - English Language Usage Stack Exchange Note there is a much more common non niche meaning of 'on time' (with stress on both words "Please be on time for work in the morning " meaning arrive at a specific clock time In the chess phrase 'winning losing on time", the word 'time' is stressed
saxon genitive - English Language Usage Stack Exchange The natural form of description for a multiply produced device named after its inventor does not use the genitive: a Faraday cage, a diesel engine, a Tesla coil, a Phillips screwdriver, etc Probably, a Rubik's cube is more common than a Rubik cube because the former is easier to pronounce I would still prefer the latter, though, especially in writing