Teh was used as an example that if every single English word was included in a spell-checker it would decrease (the spell-checker's) utility (very few people know or use "teh", it's auto …

— Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone Hagrid’s pronunciation of to is spelled ter in the book, so teh seems to be an article, at least according to Wiktionary. However, it seems to be an …

Dec 25, 2023 · 0 Follow up on SciFi.SE Pronunciation of teatime: in my answer I argue that "teh-ah" as spelled out once in a discworld novel is a pronunciation-spelling. It is essentially not …

I frequently see statements that refer to something later in the text that use a phrase such as "the below information". Is it more correct instead to say "the information below" (or "the following

Jul 1, 2024 · What is the origin of the phrase the beatings will continue until morale improves? There is a Metafilter and a Quora out on it, but they are inconclusive, and the phrase does not …

Are both expressions "At the beginning" "In the beginning" valid and equivalent? The first "seems wrong" to me, but it has more Google results.

Sep 27, 2013 · Both (taking just the relevant homonym of rest) have quite a few meanings; 'remainder' has some rather more specialist senses. Looking at just one situation where there …

In the United States, a person under examination on the witness stand may "plead the fifth" to avoid self-incrimination. In other words, a person asserts his or her Fifth Amendment right. …

Sep 21, 2015 · Devil is in the details: The details of a matter are its most problematic aspect. The idiom the devil is in the details means that mistakes are usually made in the small details of a …

Oct 7, 2011 · This is my opinion. Family and staff are collective nouns. A collective noun, as we know, may take a singular or plural verb depending on whether we see it as a unit or a …