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An orthography is a set of conventions for writing a language, including norms of spelling, punctuation, word boundaries, capitalization, hyphenation, and emphasis. Most national and international languages have an established writing system that has undergone substantial standardization, thus exhibiting less dialect variation than the spoken ...
English orthography does not always provide an underlying representation; sometimes it provides an intermediate representation between the underlying form and the surface pronunciation. This is the case with the spelling of the regular plural morpheme, which is written as either - s (as in tat, tats and hat, hats ) or - es (as in glass, glasses ).
There may be regional variations in grammar, orthography, and word-use, especially between different English-speaking countries. Such differences are not classified normatively as non-standard or "incorrect" once they have gained widespread acceptance in a particular country.
Grammar Guy Curtis Honeycutt takes a stand against verbification of proper nouns. Think "Google it" or "Venmo me." Grammar Guy: Fight the trend of using nouns, such as 'Skype' and 'Google', as verbs
Flow chart on how nouns are derived from verbs in Occidental-Interlingue using De Wahl's Rule. Both Occidental-Interlingue and Interlingua are naturalistic constructed languages based on common Western European vocabulary, and share approximately 90% the same vocabulary when orthographic differences and final vowels (filisofie vs. philosophia for example) are not taken into account. [9]
English Grammar in 1634 by Charles Butler, vicar of Wootton St Lawrence. [7]: 17–18 These proposals generally did not attract serious consideration because they were too radical or were based on an insufficient understanding of the phonology of English. [7]: 18 However, more conservative proposals were more successful.
In British English (BrE), collective nouns can take either singular (formal agreement) or plural (notional agreement) verb forms, according to whether the emphasis is on the body as a whole or on the individual members respectively; compare a committee was appointed with the committee were unable to agree.
A former TD Bank employee based in Florida was arrested and charged with facilitating money laundering to Colombia, New Jersey's attorney general said on Wednesday, in the first such arrest since ...