The next plural rule is that if the noun ends with ‘-y’ and is preceded by a consonant, you add ‘-es’ suffix and change the ‘-y’ to an ‘-i’. For example: cherry – cherries puppy – puppies However, if there is a vowel before the letter ‘-y’ (ey, ay, oy), sim...
defined by lunar cycles, with some years having a thirteenth month so that seasonal festivals stay aligned with the solar year. For religious purposes Nisan is the first month, but the New Year is celebrated in Tishri.The Islamic calendar is based on the lunar year and contains 354 or 355 ...
How to Keep Skin Tip-Top around the Clock; the Collective Noun for Ferrets Is a BusinessSCIENTISTS now say skin needs specific care at different stages of the 24-hour day. Apparently synchronising your skincare with the clock will get the most from your creams. So what should you do to ...
How people wake up and regain alertness in the hours after sleep is related to how they are sleeping, eating, and exercising. Here, in a prospective longitudinal study of 833 twins and genetically unrelated adults, we demonstrate that how effectively an individual awakens in the hours following ...
5.A story by Robert Louis Stevenson contains the sentence“As the night fell,the wind rose.”Could this be expressed as“As the wind rose,the night fell?”If not,why?Does this indicate a degree of non-arbitrariness about word order?(Bolinger,1981:15) Yes.It is a case in point to ...
No, you’re not seeing things, campers: this is indeed the last Queryfest post. It’s been a long time coming, as the song would have it, and we’ve wandered down a few side paths along the way, but this is, as they say, it. Yes, I’m relieved, too...
WordBowl readers (you wonderful people) may note it has been a bit since I last posted a piece. I’ll admit to feeling a bit under-motivated — not from the intriguing words you’ve submitted, this is ennui is entirely on me! — and in an effort to haul myself out of this funk,...
The parts had detached from each other and drifted away to prove it wrong. As they reunite with the acrobat’s head, they say in unison, “No, little acrobat, the three red dots squatting your head are crowding your memory. Motion as a tool of expression is not exclusively limited to ...
is morning alertness, which is calculated by averaging the alertness ratings that were made within the first three hours after breakfast start (n = 6,744 observations). Family ID and participant ID were defined as nested random effects of the linear mixed model. Predictors with a positive...
and then I offer a different theoretical proposal, FN, which (I claim) vindicates it. The full package I offer – kinds defined by constitutive rules, enforced by social norms – is similar to theirs, so in that respect we are fundamentally in agreement. But our disagreement is not merely...