- etymology - Baby needs a new pair of shoes! - English Language . . .
African golf, as we have painstakingly described, is played with small cubes The possessor of the cubes calls upon the gods on high to witness that the baby needs a new pair of shoes and implores certain numbers, particularly the seven and eleven, to disport themselves in public
- What should I call a person from New Zealand?
SUMMMARY Someone from New Zealand should, technically be called a Neozealander, and the English spoken in New Zealand should be called Neozealandic English, or wow, step back, Neozealandico-english New Zealand's prefix is Neozealandico- For example, consider: Franco-german war = French German war Afro-american person = African American person
- Should you always start a new paragraph when starting a new speaker . . .
When a new speaker starts a new line of dialogue you start a new paragraph at the same time Does this rule still hold true if the sentence before the dialogue starts relates directly to the dialog
- Is New and Improved an oxymoron? - English Language Usage Stack . . .
Among these definitions of new, there certainly seems to be a notion of something that is the next iteration, or a refurbished remade product So, "new and improved" could be argued to be redundant, but not an oxymoron (unless you intentionally ignore some meanings of new)
- word choice - Newly found vs. New Found - English Language Usage . . .
"New found" is an idiom, which is used only in precisely this form It means "new", but with a connotation of surprise, or of a significant change of view I would find "newly found" strange (except in the literal sense of something that has just been discovered)
- Word for sadness at something ending, but excited about new
Is there a word that describes the combination of feeling sad for an ending of something, but excited at new prospects The closest I had was "bittersweet change" Examples: 1) At the end of a h
- adjectives - Is it correct to say a new or the new? - English . . .
a new version is the case of the noun modified with the descriptive adjective, therefore, the indefinite article can be chosen the new version -you are telling the reader which thing we are talking about
- Substitute X for Y - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
You substitute the new thing for the old thing, and you replace the old thing with or by the new thing There is also simply to substitute X, without a Y: Petrochemical oil is a very useful type of fuel with a high energy yield; if we substitute vegetable oil, we may have less pollution, but we'll need larger fuel tanks
- Is Yankee derogatory? - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
Where I live, in the Boston area, the term New York Yankees is somewhat offensive, but only because of that team's rivalry with the Boston Red Sox, and the term yankee by itself connotes hard-headed practicality and common sense There is, or was, a TV show called The New Yankee Workshop There was even a Broadway show called Damn Yankees!
- “A new pair of ” or “A pair of new” - English Language Usage . . .
A new pair of scissors implies that the pair is new, but not necessarily the scissors For example, having tried to cut something and failed I might "try with a new pair of scissors"
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