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Is targetted a standard British English spelling? Here is an Ngram chart that matches targetting (blue line) and targetted (red line) against targeting (green line) and targeted (yellow line) in British English publications over the years 1950 through 2000: The most striking thing about the chart (aside from the low frequency of all of these forms as late as 1970) is the continued low frequency of targetting and targetted
to target at on for towards - English Language Usage Stack Exchange I can easily use "to target on" in a sentence, but come up empty trying to think of an instance where one would use "to target at", "to target for", or "to target towards" Is it because use of the word target as a verb means the same as shoot toward? If that is the case, then we place a target "on" where we wish to shoot or focus our aim Thus "to target on" means to place a target on a goal
Antonym of target - English Language Usage Stack Exchange For things like poisonous mushrooms, or other undesirable items amongst a mix of desirable and undesirable items, an appropriate word could be bogeys In terms of physically shooting at a target, the non-target area could be considered the wild or the rough Also, usually a "target" is conceived as a relatively small area of a much larger environment If the general situation is the opposite
Words to describe the person who made the complaint and the one who is . . . A person who made a complaint is a complainant A person who is being complained about is a complainee Edit : I've had a good look on the internet and can't find a definition of complainee other than those used in contracts for housing associations (worldwide) and similar not strictly legal enforcement entities, however the word is used very widely in the meaning of the person who is complained
Focussed or focused? Rules for doubling the last consonant when . . . There's an interesting post on this site about the spelling of the word "target (t)ed": Is "targetted" a standard British English spelling? Words ending in c, which are uncommon, sometimes follow a different rule of adding k This mainly happens with words ending in unstressed -ic, such as panic > panicked
Which spelling is correct: benefiting or benefitting? Which spelling is correct: benefiting or benefitting?Actually, from Google Ngrams, benefitting seems to be used slightly more frequently in American English than it is in British English I believe this is because, in American English, the rule is to double the consonant if there is stress on the last syllable, and in American English, benefit has secondary stress on the last syllable
What is a term for saying something without actually providing any . . . However to someone who understands 'business strategy', 'targetted initiatives' etc it does say something, sure it's generic by one measure, and doesn't say how these things have been or will be achieved but it does state an action undertaken from a high level perspective and what the goal of that action is and expresses a belief that the
Do you use a or an before acronyms initialisms? The important point to remember is the following: Written language is a representation of the spoken word Thus, the answer is "If the word following the indefinite article begins with a vowel sound, use an; if it begins with a consonant sound, use a " In the case of initialisms and acronymns, use the exact rule above For initialisms (e g "US"), the individual letters are pronounced With