Dec 6, 2018 · Archaic Syntax in Indo-European: The Spread of Transitivity in Latin, Brigitte Bauer (2011) The nominal form of a transitive verb that has only the prefix mang... does not differ from the stem …

As Henry Higgins observed in Pygmallion, the best grammarians are often those who learned English in school as immigrants. My parents, who were first-generation Americans in the early 20th century, …

I saw emails from English people with Many Thanks as a signing off phrase. Is that proper usage? Or is it a phrase created by continental English speakers due to the influence of their native langu...

Nov 15, 2015 · @SvenYargs: From 1845 to 1883 "BB" meant Brigitte Bardot. It was changed to mean ball bearing in 1883.

Apr 15, 2017 · I checked Garner's Modern American Usage; although BG doesn't address free of vs. free from, he writes that the distinction between freedom of and freedom from is that the former …

Nov 22, 2010 · I like the look of filename, however, when you end up talking about other attributes of that file, which happens in programming a lot, for example, it is often much better to use file name …

it refers to a discrete life form that has properties of mind (i.e. experience and character, cf. sentience)

May 27, 2012 · What's the feminine version of womanizer? Your title and question are a bit contradictory. Reading the title, I inferred that the question was a man womanizes a female so what …

Jan 2, 2019 · This is a matter of style, not grammar. There may be style guides that say you shouldn't add a comma after British Columbia. (Although I'm not aware of any.) If you follow such a guide, then …

Jan 19, 2014 · Someone told me that I shouldn't use the phrase discuss about, but should say, instead, discuss (the topic). He said discuss means talk about and using discuss about is like saying talk …