2. Which is NOT true about Webster’s dictionary? A.It has local words in it. B.It is a 70.000-word dictionary. C.All the words are spelled without “u”. D.Its words are in American-style spelling. 3. What’s the main idea of the passage?
Buckingham Palace spelled it out soon after Sunak’s announcement, announcing that members of the royal family would postpone all engagements that “may appear to divert attention or distract from the election campaign.’’ That meant the king on Friday ditched trips to a Bentley car factory and...
Me: What's the longest English word that can be spelled using just seven different letters? Each letter can be used more than once. ChatGPT: The longest English word that can be spelled using just seven different letters, allowing for repetition, is "uncopyrightable". It consists of 15 lett...
While abortions in Zambia are allowed on the broad grounds spelled out in the Termination of Pregnancy Act of 1972, the same law also severely restricts access to safe and legal abortion services by demanding written consent of three medical doctors including a specialist for a legal abortion to...
But on this occasion it quickly became clear that there was added significance to the message being delivered as Schultz spelled out a ‘Reinvention plan’ designed to take the business into the future amid recognition that the economic and consumer landscape is undergoing dramatic change. ...
I gather this tweet is true, and Matthew notes that there are other examples (as well as jokes) further down the thread: WASP was originally spelled ‘waps’. BIRD was originally spelled ‘brid’. CURD was originally spelled ‘crud’. ...
#Also possibly influenced by French is the Canadian eh. French Canadians use hein (also colloquially spelled han) in most of the same kinds of places English Canadians use eh, and they use it more. The eh of Canadian English is not a Canadian invention; it is used in England and elsewher...
Noah Webster wanted to make American English more direct and have words spelled closer to how they sound. To achieve this goal, many redundancies in British English were reformed or removed to make the language more accessible. As more and more people from outwith the British Isles chose to ...
“Cheers” originated from the old French wordchierewhich meant “face” or “head.” By the 18th century, it meant “gladness,” and was used as a way of expressing encouragement. Today, “cheers,” is simply a symbolic and succinct way of toasting with the wish of good cheer and good...
This piece by Bernd Brunner may not have any particular conclusion to offer (“In the end, beauty in language is just one of those things”), but it’s always enjoyable to think about ineffabilities like “why do so many people think German sounds awful?”— and the fact that the auth...