The word is so offensive here, they couldn't figure out how to even talk about it indirectly, so the incident didn't become public until years later. In an American context, calling Cindy a cunt in front of strangers was so disrespectful and humiliating that I thought it was only slightly less shocking than if he'd punched her in the face, and ...

This article is very extensive, so to highlight what they have to say about the term "tuppence" (which here falls under the "money" category): FGTs contained both explicit (e.g., tuppence, thruppeny bit, Mrs Penny), and implicit (fur purse, pocket book) references to money.

So to many of them, it's just another blinking, blooming, freaking, flaming, flipping mild "cuss word". Brits, on the other hand, were using it a generation earlier - back in the days when using even relatively mild curse words was generally considered a "bad thing".

2021年10月5日 · addendum: A compromise outside confines of plain-text is to combine both, "(/s)", but with the parentheses shrunk slightly; this would be only marginally longer than "/s" (but shorter than "(s)") and convey more explicit+accurate meaning than either of the other options by its respective self.

2020年2月10日 · If I say "have had", I connect the event to the present, so it is possible that I might have more homework, and I could say something like this on, e.g., a Wednesday (in the middle of the week). Another example will illustrate the importance of the connection to now: I had a lot of homework last year. *I have had a lot of homework last year ...

2023年4月18日 · So we wondered: Are these both examples of proverbs from African countries? What we found is that it takes a lot of phone calls to track down the origins of a proverb. And in the end, the answer might be: We just don't know.

2024年7月4日 · So a male equivalent would be an older man seeking younger women. While we have a term for women, it seemed to me that it was historically assumed that older men sought out younger women. In other words, men who pursued women, "womanizers" "philanderers" etc. were also going after younger women so a separate term was not required.

2014年8月28日 · If, in a contract fr example, the text reads: "X has to finish the work by MM-DD-YYYY", does the "by" include the date or exclude it? In other words, will the work delivered on the specified date

2014年8月23日 · In writing, much less so. I think what may be going on is that one just assumes that “June 1” is pronounced “June First”, or “4 July” as “the Fourth of July”. So your perception that they are not so much used in America may be from the lazy or abbreviated or “assumed” written versions not the actual oral ones.

Use a comma before Jr. and Sr., but treat II and III according to the person’s preference. Within a sentence, always use a comma after Jr. and Sr., but use a comma after II and III only if they are preceded by a comma.