
Term for "Every 2 weeks"? - English Language & Usage Stack …
2012年2月23日 · Possible Duplicate: Are there any words I can use to disambiguate “biweekly”? Is there a term two designate a frequency of "every two weeks", like "weekly" for "every week".
How to read exponential expressions, e.g., "2^16"?
2012年7月11日 · Of course there are some special cases: x 2 is "x squared", x 3 is "x cubed". x 1 or x 0 are mathematically jarring if written alone (they are often, when mathematically allowed, written just "x" and "one"), but if forced would be "x to the one" and "x to the zero", never as an ordinal (it is a solecism to say "x to the first" and way too ...
Origin of going "number 1" or "number 2" in the bathroom
Commented Apr 13, 2016 at 2:25 (The claim in that link that outdoor plumbing had been eliminated 60 years prior to 1902 is pure bullshit, by the way. There were plenty of rural schools with outhouses of one sort or another up until probably 1955.)
Comma after "In Section 2", "In what follows", or "In 1999"?
2015年12月19日 · From the intricacy and complexity of Section 2 will arise the clarity of Section 3. Would you put a comma after "Section 2"? CMS will advise no, and for good reason. How about these short introductory prepositional phrases: After Section 2, Section 3 will provide more detail. In Section 2, 21 examples will illustrate the premise.
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grammatical number - No. 1, 2, 3 is right or Nos. 1, 2, 3 - English ...
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Which one's correct - "this two" or "these two"?
2017年8月9日 · 49 1 1 gold badge 1 1 silver badge 2 2 bronze badges. 5. 2. Can you provide a sentence with this two, ...
How did the letter Z come to be associated with sleeping/snoring?
2011年5月26日 · 2. The Scolenius Medius. the largest and longest of the three Scoleni. arises from the posterior tubercle of the transverse processes of the lower six cervical vertebrae, and descending along, ... Boys Life yet again in Nov 1928, this time with an illustration: zzzzzzz. One: What is snoring? Two: Sheet music. Illinois education, Volume 42 in 1953:
grammatical number - What is the plural of "staff"? - English …
2016年6月20日 · Words that are almost always singular can become plural if you talk about varieties. Water, as a non-count noun, is singular until we talk about varieties of water: "In Mexico, where they told us not to drink the water, the connoisseur can find many delicious bottled waters to sip during lazy afternoons at a table in a sidewalk café.
Which spelling is correct: "benefiting" or "benefitting"?
2010年10月15日 · 2. It is the one-t version that appears more often in google searches. What search are you using ...