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pronunciation - Why is Sean pronounced Shawn? - English Language . . . Sean (written "Seán" or "Séan" in Irish) is a Hibernization of the English name "John"; that is, it's a transliteration of "John" into a form which can be pronounced in Irish and written with the Irish alphabet (which nowadays is simply a version of the Roman alphabet)
When should Mom and Dad be capitalized? - English Language Usage . . . When you are using the word "Dad" to refer to a specific person, it's standing in place of their name, and thus, like their name, would be capitalized When you're talking about dads in general, it's a common noun Say you had a horse named Betsy and were re-writing the sentence to refer to her: The one thing I learned from my horse was that it was good to earn the trust of one's children
Invite vs. invitation - English Language Usage Stack Exchange Invite has been in use as a colloquial form of invitation since at least the mid-seventeenth century There’s nothing wrong with it in the right place, but in formal contexts such as a printed card invitation would be the word to use
Is it acceptable to drop the comma in Thanks, John? The main difference between lying and not using a comma in "Thanks, John", in your analogy, is that lying is a deliberate act of deception that often has negative consequences for the person being lied to, whereas dropping that comma is unlikely to have any negative consequences for the reader and is often not done deliberately It's a poor analogy
tenses - English Language Usage Stack Exchange To add to Martha's answer: The simple past ("Did you see this") refers about an event in the past The present perfect ("Have you seen this") suggests a link with the present time If "this" is something you could have seen but cannot anymore (you should have been there seeing "this" at the time, but it wouldn't have the same impact if you see it again now), then "Did you see" is more