2011年7月12日 · Small can also convey such other meanings, but this is less common, IMO. In the OP example: A small typo generally means that the fix involved few character changes (e.g. Levenshtein distance). A little typo can as easily mean (a) the same thing as a small typo or (b) that the typo or the fix was not very important.

2014年8月23日 · Just a small remark: According to the English typography, the ordinal indicators are not written in superscript. In French or Spanish you do that, not in English. It's only Microsoft Word that implemented the feature years ago and since then, people think it's correct. –

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Small and little mean literally the same thing, and refer to physical size. Therefore, there is no such thing as a small or little question, unless you’re referring to the physical length of a written question—a question which is 1 cm long as apposed to one which is 10 cm long. Both small and little in this context are grammatically incorrect.

2016年7月31日 · Prov. Small packages often contain valuable things. (Sometimes said of petite or short people.) Jill: I'm upset at George. He only gave me this tiny box for my birthday. Jane: Don't get upset till you know what's in it. Good things do come in small packages. Child: I hate being so short. Grandmother: You shouldn't. The best things come in small ...

2017年1月16日 · The culture and the format of the hours does not matter. The wee hours ~ midnight to 04:00hrs are, as you say, "wee/small" numerically. OED small hours the early hours after midnight denoted by the small numbers, one, two, etc.; cf. …

These usage stats suggest that overall, slim is somewhat preferred over small, and both are clearly preferred over low, on both sides of the pond. Further candidates range from poor to little to remote to slender to once-in-a-lifetime, but see for yourself. I will leave it as an exercise to the reader to figure out which of these does or does ...

2015年11月7日 · The expressions 'on a small/large scale' are common and use a different preposition. I'm guessing that 'at' is chosen in 'at the production scale' etc by analogy with 'at the highest level', the level/height metaphor, indicating the …

Other people have touched on the first two questions—that the use of small caps and all caps have become less popular in American English and American style guides. You can read more about the Chicago Manual of Style's (CMOS) decision to adopt their current recommendation (i.e. 9 …

2014年7月3日 · I worked in banking for 27 years (Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta and Bank of America), and my experience in financial services was that M and MM were consistently used for thousands and millions, respectively.