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Does yar (or yarr or yargh) in Pirate English imply an affirmative? A frequent hedge is arr, but the variations yar, yarr, and yargh are also quite common Is there a distinction in meaning between arr and the yar variants, or are these simply different spellings of the same exclamation? For instance, is yar a contraction of yes and arr, therefore implying an affirmation or agreement?
Which is it: 1½ years old or 1½ year old? [duplicate] It would come much more naturally to a native speaker to say not "That man is a 50-year-old" [note also the hyphenation here] but "That is a 50-year-old man"; similarly, not "That kid is a one-and-a-half-year-old today" [a construction I have never heard anyone use when referring to half years as part of someone's age], but "That is a one-and-a-half-year-old kid" (omitting the 'today'), or
When to use “in the last year”, “last year” and “in the past year”? In the last year, last year, in the past year How do such things come into being? We may assume that the beginnings were something like this: When was it? - That was in the last year Then you may assume that this was shortened to: That was last year The omission of self-evident "in" does not change the meaning Then "last year" alone can be used as an adverbial group in a sentence So "Last
Which is correct — a year or an year? [duplicate] The word year when pronounced starts with a phonetic sound of e which is a vowel sound making it eligible for being preceded by an Yet, we tend to write a year Why?
What is the difference between Per year and Per annum? From the Oxford Corpus of English: PER ANNUM For 30 years, it had gone remorselessly ahead, at about 80% per annum An Elan bond, where the bondholder can exercise the right to be repaid in 18 months, currently yields 19 per cent per annum With this fresh impetus, the total edible oil processing capacity, including vanaspati, is expected to cross 20 million tonne per annum PER YEAR We can