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The following article on "respectively" appeared in the original edition (1926) of Modern English Usage by H.W. Fowler, p. 500. Its copyright has expired and it is now in the public domain. I couldn't put it better. The original was tightly formatted; I have reformatted it for legibility. --Macrakis 00:17, 1 February 2021 (UTC)
Use of a misspelled endonym is perhaps more problematic than the respectful use of an existing exonym. [citation needed] Finally, an endonym may be a plural noun and may not naturally extend itself to adjectival usage in another language like English, which has the propensity to use the adjectives for describing culture and language. [citation ...
Its use often conveys lighthearted informality in which many speakers intentionally use a dialect or colloquial construction they would probably not use in formal written English. The colloquial usage is widely understood by British speakers. Similarly, stood may be used instead of standing. To Americans and still to many Britons, those usages ...
The interest rate on Direct Subsidized and Direct Unsubsidized federal student loans is currently 5.50 percent and 7.05 percent for undergraduate and graduate students, respectively. Usage ...
It is usual in North American English to use full stops after initials; e.g.: A. A. Milne [16] and George W. Bush. [17] British usage is less strict. [18] A few style guides discourage full stops after initials. [19] [20] However, there is a general trend and initiatives to spell out names in full instead of abbreviating them in order to avoid ...
Analysts expect it to report that its revenue and earnings grew by 21% and 52%, respectively, in 2024. For 2025, the analysts expect Meta's revenue and earnings to rise by 15% and 12% ...
Similarly, other important places, such as Wall Street, K Street, Madison Avenue, Silicon Valley, Hollywood, Vegas, and Detroit are commonly used to refer to the industries that are located there (finance, lobbying, advertising, high technology, entertainment, gambling, and motor vehicles, respectively). Such usage may persist even when the ...
The English language was introduced to the Americas by the arrival of the British, beginning in the late 16th and early 17th centuries.The language also spread to numerous other parts of the world as a result of British trade and settlement and the spread of the former British Empire, which, by 1921, included 470–570 million people, about a quarter of the world's population.