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- What is the short form for little ? Is it lil or lil?
The form lil is used, but the most common variant seems to be lil' (capitalized when it is a name) Wikipedia "Lil" is a kind of prefix and is the short form of "little" It is often spelled with an apostrophe as "Lil'" or "Li'l" When used as a prefix in comic or animation it can refer to a specific style of drawing where the characters appear in a chubby, childlike style These are normally
- Is there a logical umbrella term for onboarding and offboarding?
FumbleFingers - that would be fine, really Onboarding offboarding are pretty common in the context we're using them, but joining and leaving make good sense I still can't think of a decent umbrella term, though : ( Yoseph - there are more activities than just granting or obtaining access - I'll update the question to reflect that, sorry
- Why are black people referred to as colored people?
When someone calls a black person quot;a colored guy quot;, I can't help but think about the question quot;are white people colorless? Isn't white a color too? quot;
- Idiom or better yet a word for loss of fidelity by copying
Is there a word for describing the loss of fidelity or quality by repeated copying I'm thinking of a xerox of a xerox, or a copy of a copy, or of the phenomena that happens when playing the game of
- When should I use a vs an? - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
In the following example, is it appropriate to use a or an as the indefinite article, and why? He ate __ green apple I know that in the case of just "apple", it would be "an apple," but I've heard
- Why is karma a bitch? - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
Also used as the rhetorical question Ain't karma a bitch? Synonyms: What goes around, comes around Getting his just desserts He had it coming and strongly related to Payback's a bitch It is likely a mix of having bad Karma and the idiom Payback's a bitch, where Payback is performed by someone wronged by the now punished person, but Karma just happened to the person for some seemingly righteous
- punctuation - When do we need to put a comma after so at the . . .
I noticed that most of the times when the conjunction "so" is used at the beginning of a sentence, it is followed by a comma: So, this gets published but the fact that it is inaccurate gets moder
- orthography - Is there a rule for “‑ance” vs. “‑ence”? - English . . .
Yes, this is for real No, there really is no rule There used to be a rule in Latin, though Etymonline explains in more detail: -ance suffix attached to verbs to form abstract nouns of process or fact (convergence from converge), or of state or quality (absence from absent); ultimately from L -antia and -entia, which depended on the vowel in the stem word As Old French evolved from Latin
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