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- In British English, should it be licensee or licencee?
We all know that quot;license quot; in American English is quot;licence quot; in British English But what about the person to whom the licence is given? Various dictionaries show the 'c' versio
- Whats the difference between licensing and licensure?
On the new Engineering SE, we field questions about professional engineering registration The tag categorizing these questions is "licensure" and I usually find myself referring to the topic by that
- When and why did an historic gain widespread usage?
This question and nohat's answer address the general case of words starting with h with an unstressed first syllable and says that now either a or an are used, but traditionally it was an You can also read about the etymology of an in many places and see the question: When did the a an distinction happen
- What is the verb for receiving a licence? [duplicate]
The verb for granting someone a license (such as a copyright license) seems to be "license", as in "we licensed the software to Foo" What is the verb for receiving a license? Also "license"? A
- Will I vs. I will - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
As in the following sentence: When I have the time, I will watch a new episode of one of the aforementioned Netflix shows, though rarely I will watch one of the shows below: vs When I have the
- What is the difference between illicit and illegal?
I like this answer best because it's brief and to the point About the only relevant information missing is mention of the finer nuance as to why people ever use illicit rather than illegal I think it's normally either because the writer wishes to emphasis that the debarring authority is something other than law, or to indicate less than total endorsement of the particular law involved
- Why does law use assigns instead of assignees?
Assign is typically a verb Only in legal writing do we see it used as a noun, meaning "the entity to which something is assigned," and usually as part of a "successors and assigns" clause Every
- Thru vs. through - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
Slang is “very informal usage in vocabulary and idiom that is characteristically more metaphorical, playful, elliptical, vivid, and ephemeral than ordinary language” Since thru is the exact same word as through, it cannot possibly be considered slang Spelling is always an approximation anyway; spoken language is primary Now, if you and your friends used bazinga to mean "through", that
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