"More Bored" Vs "Boreder" - English Language & Usage Stack …
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single word requests - What is the name of the area of skin …
Apr 29, 2014 · @Doorknob - Elliot has named it correctly. The upper lip is skin-covered, skin-colored, and hairy. The pink parts are called the upper and lower vermilion, the border …
'the USA' vs. 'the US' - English Language & Usage Stack Exchange
Mar 21, 2014 · Here is an interesting discussion of US versus U.S. versus USA versus U.S.A. from Wikipedia: Manual of Style:. In American and Canadian English, U.S. (with periods) is the …
Origin of the idiom "go south" - English Language & Usage Stack …
Sep 19, 2011 · go south (also head south, take a turn south) 1 v phr by 1940s To disappear; fail by or as if by vanishing [examples omitted] 2 v phr by 1925 To abscond with money loot, etc. …
adjectives - East Coast, East coast, or east coast? - English …
Apr 29, 2015 · Yet the West Midlands is to all intents a proper noun and always capitalised, as is East Anglia. The 'Home Counties' is the collective name given to the six counties which border …
grammar - Should have went vs Should have gone - English …
Mar 15, 2017 · Yes, that's the way the paradigms seem to be falling out: either the participle is the same as the past regularly, or an irregular past participle becomes equivalent to past, like …
What do you call the interconnecting bits of a puzzle piece in …
Speaking as a fully-qualified jigsaw puzzle solver, I can say that the standard word is an outie.Terminology shared with belly-buttons, except normally only jigsaw outies interlock with …
What do you call the land area around a pond?
Jan 15, 2019 · I live adjacent to a pond in New England (specifically, Spy Pond in Arlington, MA). People around here commonly call the area around it the shore, and the border of the water …
etymology - English Language & Usage Stack Exchange
Aug 20, 2011 · having the same border or covering the same area. being the same in extent; coextensive in range or scope. Its definitions of "conterminous": having a common boundary; …
More formal way of saying: "Sorry to bug you again about this, …
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