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+1, I like that this is the first answer to address the multiple Unicode code points involved. However, I think you might mention that regardless of the characters' names or official prescriptions for use, the less-than and greater-than signs are commonly used as a type of brackets, probably because they can easily be typed and their display is more widely supported than that of the other symbols.
Which is the left arrow? A or B? To completely avoid ambiguity, you can describe Arrow A as "a right-pointing arrow on the left side of the diagram", and Arrow B is "a left-pointing arrow on the right side of the diagram". If that seems a little too long, "left-pointing arrow" is also perfectly acceptable for Arrow B (and vice versa).
from C0 Controls and Basic Latin: LEFT CURLY BRACKET = opening curly bracket (1.0) = left brace Share.
On dry land, the left and right sides of a building are usually just that, left and right. However, those sides can always be called for the directions they face towards (like east and west sides for buildings whose front and rear facades face north and south), with the term "wing" being added in cases where sections of the structure branch out ...
She left less than ten minutes ago. ii. Less/Fewer than thirty of the students had voted. iii. He made no less/fewer than fifteen mistakes. iv. You pass if you make ten mistakes or less/?fewer. v. He took less/*fewer pains to convince us than I’d expected. vi. He made fewer/less mistakes than the others. Both [i] and [ii] have than + numeral.
Top left vs. upper left, lower-left vs bottom left, which are more common? Or all of the combinations are right to use in any text?
As for the movies using "fire!", I don't know about Frozen but at least in the other two the people involved would have been using a different language, not English, so any speech in the movies can be considered as a modern translation and, as long as you consider the use of "fire an arrow" acceptable in modern times, it should be acceptable in ...
Historically, the left side, and subsequently left-handedness, was considered negative in many cultures. The Latin word sinistra originally meant "left" but took on meanings of "evil" or "unlucky" by the Classical Latin era, and this double meaning survives in European derivatives of Latin, and in the English word "sinister".
I would guess these developed similarly to words like furrow (from ME forwe among other forms < OE furh), arrow (from OE earh/arwe), and sparrow (from OE spearwa). That is, the final h or g was replaced with the semivowel w, which subsequently developed into an oaw sound. For some speakers, the current pronunciation has developed further to a ...
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