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Word to call a person that works in a store I seem to always have a trouble with this one; what do you call a person that works in a store? A clerk? A sales person? Neither of these sound right Saying "person that works in the store" doesn'
prepositions - Why is it “tuck in” and not just “tuck”? - English . . . 1 tuck verb (tucks, present participle tucking; past and past participle tucked) (transitive) To pull or gather up (an item of fabric) [From 14thc ] (transitive) To push into a snug position; to place somewhere safe or somewhat hidden [From 1580s ] Tuck in your shirt I tucked in the sheet He tucked the $10 bill into his shirt pocket
Whats the origin of flipping the bird? - English Language Usage . . . Flipping seems pretty straightforward, so the real question here is, where did "the bird " come from? Here's one account: bird (3) "middle finger held up in a rude gesture," slang derived from 1860s expression give the big bird "to hiss someone like a goose," kept alive in vaudeville slang with sense of "to greet someone with boos, hisses, and catcalls" (1922), transferred 1960s to the "up
If it was or if it were? [duplicate] - English Language Usage . . . In your specific case, neither 'was' nor 'were' is best; you should say "if it is running" "If it were running" is subjunctive case, used to describe hypothetical situations: "If it were running, I would stop it first, but it's already stopped " "If it was running" is a common corruption of subjunctive case, or, as described in the other questions, a way to express an option that occurred in
I am on it vs. I am at it - English Language Usage Stack Exchange I am on it in your first example sounds like a shortened version of I’m on the case, a colloquial way of saying that the speaker is dealing with it In the context of some kind of dispute, as in your second example, they’re at it again means that they have started doing again whatever it was that was a component in the dispute
verbs - Information on the word scower - English Language Usage . . . I would like some more explanation on this [scower vs scour] Why is the word 'obsolete' as well as not being more widely used? The explanation is actually very simple Scower is not an obsolete word; as you point out, it's still used Rather, it's an obsolete Spelling There's only one verb with those meanings, it's pronounced skawr , and it's usually spelled scour But it has also been