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Put more weight on something - English Language Usage Stack Exchange Idiomatically, most people prefer to (metaphorically) give more weight to [some contributory factor] rather than put more weight on it But both versions are perfectly natural, and semantically they're equivalent (attach greater importance to some factor) Note that both "conscious agents" (people) and "abstract concepts" such as data, arguments, lines of reasoning can give or put weight on
Isle vs. Island - English Language Usage Stack Exchange In modern everyday use 'Isle' tends to be included in the name by which the place is known, such as the ones you mention plus the Isle of Skye, Isle of Mull, Isle of Wight etc
Correct usage of lbs. as in pounds of weight Assuming it's not casual usage, I'd recommend "All items over five pounds are excluded," instead Most style guided recommend spelling out numbers of ten or less, and in such a case I'd spell out the unit, too
greetings - Whats an appropriate response to a British person asking . . . You are correct, there are two meanings which you mention The first one has a couple of possible responses: 1 - yes, yeah or something else short and semi-positive 2 - a response of 'alright' itself can be appropriate for passing, which means "yes, thank you, and yourself?' That could just be a Northern thing though For the barman waitress service person, you can either keep things short as
single word requests - What is the male equivalent of damsel . . . Wight is a near-equivalent, going by the dictionary The problem is that damsel has heavy connotations of pretty but useless, and (obviously) there are no men who could be described so Edit: the word is Anglo-Saxon, and since man means pretty much the same, wight was never very common
synonyms - English Language Usage Stack Exchange I have been using the following sentence for all my official communication, but I have become bored by its monotony With reference to the subject above I am looking for a total change over of my
british english - Whats the etymology of the military slang word . . . OED gives the noun variant 'jipper' (and 'jippo') as the etymology of 'gippo' The earliest attestation of those noun variants is for 'jipper', in 1886, when it appears in William Henry Long's A dictionary of the Isle of Wight dialect: Jipper Juice, or syrup of anything, as of a pudding or pie