Wight and Wiht is white? - English Language & Usage Stack …
2019年3月12日 · Wight is etymologically unrelated to white. The former is pronounced /waɪt/; the latter is pronounced /waɪt/ (the same as wight) or, in certain conservative accents, /hwaɪt/ or /ʍaɪt/ (the transcriptions /hw/ and /ʍ/ don't contrast; the difference is just that the transcription /hw/ implies analyzing the "wh" sound as two phonemes, …
Origin of the phrase "That's mighty white of you..."
2023年12月19日 · Assessment. Hamlin Garland grew up in the U.S. Midwest, moved to Boston in 1884 at the age of 24, moved to Chicago in 1893, and traveled to the Yukon in 1898 "to witness the Klondike Gold Rush" (according to Wikipedia).
Correct usage of lbs. as in "pounds" of weight
2013年5月4日 · I suggest writing 2.3 kg instead of any of 5 lbs., 5lbs., 5 lb. or 5lb. Historically, however, the forms “5 lb” and “5 lbs” appear to have been used more than either of the others (according to ngrams for 5 lbs,5lbs,5lb,5 lb,5 lb .
What do we call the “rd” in “3ʳᵈ” and the “th” in “9ᵗʰ”?
2014年8月23日 · @WS2 In speech, very nearly always. In writing, much less so. I think what may be going on is that one just assumes that “June 1” is pronounced “June First”, or “4 July” as “the Fourth of July”.
differences - Isle vs. Island - Isle vs. Island - English Language ...
2013年10月16日 · 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. (No one says simply 'Wight' to refer to the Isle of Wight, nor 'Man' to refer to the Isle of Man.)
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. Chambers defines it as "man (archaic or dialect ...
Should it be 10 US$ or US$ 10? - English Language & Usage Stack …
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What is a good proverb in response to "two wrongs don't make a …
2020年9月9日 · Consider a specific case: if a 'wrong' was 'damage to a ship' on the starboard side - causing said ship to list - and another, intentional but measured/controlled 'wrong' was judiciously affected to the port side such that the list was corrected, the ship 'righted', lives saved, etc. - it would be true that 'two wrongs make aright' (the ship in this case).
etymology - What is the origin of the '7 8 9' joke? - English …
2021年1月8日 · Barry Popik, in "Entry from May 09, 2016", mentions the joke is in the 19 January 1986, Chicago (IL) Tribune. I observe an appearance of a version of the joke in The Central New Jersey Home News (New Brunswick, New Jersey) of 20 Dec 1980:
What is the rule for adjective order?
2014年12月15日 · Michael Swan (Practical English Usage, Oxford University Press, 1997) writes: "Unfortunately, the rules for adjective order are very complicated, and different grammars disagree about the details" p. 8
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