Correct abbreviation of "engineer" - English Language & Usage Stack ...
Jun 3, 2012 · What is the correct abbreviation of engineer? In my organization, some of my colleagues use Eng. and some use Engr.
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phonetics - English words ending with -enk/-eng - English Language ...
Nov 28, 2021 · 3 Mostly because -eng, -enk didn’t survive Middle English We don’t have native words in -eng, -enk because of a regular sound-change that any such words underwent in their evolution from …
Gay (homosexual) and gay (happy) - English Language & Usage Stack …
Feb 12, 2021 · When did the main meaning of the word 'gay' shift from happy to homosexual? How did the meaning evolve, if there is a relation between the two?
Renumeration vs Remuneration (reimbursed financially), which is correct?
According to the OED renumeration / remuneration are interchangeable. So too are the associated verbs - renumerate / remunerate. However, some commentators have strong feelings about …
pronouns - Is it ever correct to use “the both of them,” or is it ...
Jun 15, 2025 · It does not seem to be an archaic usage. The English Dialect Dictionary, from 1898, characterizes it as var. dial. uses in Irel. and Eng. And Ngrams shows that its usage started …
Using the expression "the same" for a previously mentioned item
Dec 21, 2012 · 1966 G. W. Turner Eng. Lang. in Austral. & N.Z. vi. 135 A different influence of written language is seen in the use of same as a pronoun equivalent to it, as in ‘put the tailboard up and …
Why does "corn" mean "maize" in American English?
Jan 3, 2013 · In British English, "corn" can mean any type of "grain": increasingly not really true today; the en-US usage meaning "maize" is increasingly the meaning (at least without context suggesting …
"Speak to" vs. "Speak with" - English Language & Usage Stack Exchange
Aug 14, 2010 · 1622 in W. Foster Eng. Factories India 1622–3 (1908) 10 They both retired themselves to there privacy, soe that wee could not then speake with them. 1675 City Mercury 18–25 Nov. 2/1 …
abbreviations - Should I write "PhD" or "Ph.D."? - English Language ...
May 17, 2011 · Question pretty self-explanatory. Should the abbreviation of the Latin term philosophiae doctor be written as PhD (no periods) or Ph.D. (with periods)?