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One suggests "Ps and Qs" is short for "pleases" and "thank-yous", the latter syllables pronounced like the letter "Q". Another proposal is from the English pubs and taverns of the 17th century: bartenders would keep watch over the pints and quarts consumed by the patrons, telling them to "mind their Ps and Qs". [5]
1973: The logic of politeness; or, minding your P's and Q's. In: Papers from the Ninth Regional Meeting of the Chicago Linguistics Society, ed. C. Corum, T. Cedric Smith-Stark, A. Weiser, pages 292–305. Chicago: Department of Linguistics, University of Chicago; 1975: Language and Woman's Place. ISBN 0-19-516757-0
The title needs to be changed. Wikipedia's style for article titles is sentence case, so neither p nor q should be capitalized. This title would properly be styled as follows, according to CMOS 7.59 (16th edition): Mind your p's and q's The title needs to be changed to 'Mind your Ps and Qs.'. RdCrestdBreegull 21:43, 10 March 2008 (UTC)
The missing letter effect is influenced by the proficiency of language when proficiency differs across two or more languages for one person. [3] An experiment by Bovee and Raney recruited people who speak English proficiently and have a low proficiency level in Spanish to take part in a letter detection task with comprehension questions to ...
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Personally, I would never add an apostrophe to a plural abbreviation as I was taught that they should be avoided at all costs, unless referring to lower case letters, as in "Mind your p's and q's." Again, Ask Oxford states that the apostrophes are unnecessary if written in capitals ("Ps and Qs"), which to my mind is the preferable way of ...
From January 2008 to December 2012, if you bought shares in companies when Kenneth M. Duberstein joined the board, and sold them when he left, you would have a -32.1 percent return on your investment, compared to a -2.8 percent return from the S&P 500.
Overconfidence effect, a tendency to have excessive confidence in one's own answers to questions. For example, for certain types of questions, answers that people rate as "99% certain" turn out to be wrong 40% of the time. [5] [44] [45] [46] Planning fallacy, the tendency for people to underestimate the time it will take them to complete a ...