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Consistency is irrelevant when this isn't what it's called! It isn't a degree that gives the title of associate; it's an associate degree. Different thing. -- Necrothesp 13:14, 11 July 2023 (UTC) Oppose The WP:COMMONNAME appears to be associate degree, although associate's degree does have some usage. Associate degree is also recommended by the ...
Does not need to be written out in full on first use, nor provided on first use in parentheses after the full term if written out. pm or p.m. post meridiem: Should not be written out in full in times and does not need to be linked. It should not be written PM or P.M. radar: radio detection and ranging: scuba: self-contained underwater breathing ...
The first associate degrees were awarded in the UK (where they are no longer awarded) in 1873 before spreading to the US in 1898. In the United States, the associate degree may allow transfer into the third year of a bachelor's degree. [1] Associate degrees have since been introduced in a small number of other countries.
The Chicago Manual of Style (15th edition): "The possessive of most singular nouns is formed by adding an s, and the possessive of plural nouns (except for a few irregular plurals that do not end in s) by adding an apostrophe only...The general rule covers most proper nouns, including names ending in s, x, or z, in both their singular and ...
They’re not getting confused about whose running mate Tim Walz is.” If she wins in November, Harris would become the fourth U.S. president with a last name ending in S and the first since Rutherford B. Hayes, who was elected in 1876 — 130 years before the founding of Twitter — and was spared the social media frenzy over apostrophes.
Fo'c's'le may also take a possessive s – as in the fo'c's'le's timbers – giving four apostrophes in one word. [59] A word which formerly contained two apostrophes is sha'n't for shall not, examples of which may be found in the older works of P. G. Wodehouse and "Frank Richards" (Charles Hamilton), but this has been superseded by shan't.
Originally the second of three degrees in sequence – Legum Baccalaureus (LL.B., last conferred by an American law school in 1970); LL.M.; and Legum Doctor (LL.D.) or Doctor of Laws, which has only been conferred in the United States as an honorary degree but is an earned degree in other countries. In American legal academia, the LL.M. was ...
Timothy Pulju, a senior lecturer in linguistics at Dartmouth College, said that until the 17th or 18th century, the possessive of proper names ending in S — such as Jesus or Moses — often was ...