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Why was Spook a slur used to refer to African Americans? I understand that the word spook is a racial slur that rose in usage during WWII; I also know Germans called black gunners Spookwaffe What I don't understand is why Spook seems to also mean 'ghos
indefinite articles - Is it a usual or an usual? Why? - English . . . As Jimi Oke points out, it doesn't matter what letter the word starts with, but what sound it starts with Since "usual" starts with a 'y' sound, it should take 'a' instead of 'an' Also, If you say "today was an usual day", unless your pronunciation is extremely clear, you risk being misunderstood as "today was unusual day", which will only confuse your listeners
Why do North Americans pronounce caramel as carmel? Americans don't all use "carmel" Many of them think it's more correct to say "carr-a-mel", so you can find a number of examples of this pronunciation being used, especially in formal contexts Go through some of the Youglish US pronunciations of "caramel" There is a word where a similar syncopated pronunciation is, as far as I know, universal for American English speakers: squirrel
punctuation - Why is there a slash within n a? - English Language . . . jsq29: It provides a justification for why the standard has changed, even if Merriam Webster hasn't caught up Ultimately, language is fluid even though some consider it sacred Thus, slash was once used in place of dot for abbreviations, the letter s was once written as f, just some examples
Why is pineapple in English but ananas in all other languages? The question is: why did the English adapt the name pineapple from Spanish (which originally meant pinecone in English) while most European countries eventually adapted the name ananas, which came from the Tupi word nanas (also meaning pineapple)
Why is a woman a widow and a man a widower? I suspect because the phrase was only needed for women and widower is a much later literary invention Widow had a lot of legal implications for property, titles and so on If the survivor of a marriage was a woman things got complicated before women had many rights If the survivor was a man in the middle ages it didn't really make much difference as he held all the property anyway A similar