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1. The words, "e'er," "ne'er," and "o'er" appear mostly in poems and songs. The omission of the letter v in each word changes them from two-syllable to one-syllable words. Sometimes that one syllable makes a difference when making the lines of a refrain or stanza a certain length. Share.
. . . and just got time enough to the boat to save my passage;—and e’er I had sailed a hundred yards, the Rhône and the Saôn met together, and carried me down merrily betwixt them.. . .e’er twice twelve months are pass’d and gone, thou mayest grow out like a pumkin, and lose thy shapes—— I understand that "e'er" means "ever."
15. There are a few examples of pairs of words ending with -ee/-er like employee and employer or advisee and adviser. What I was curious about is if there was any rule that would describe the relationship of the objects in a pair like this and situations when it's appropriate to create a counterpart for a given word. I'll give you an example.
I don't think any rule based on meaning will be reliable as a guide to using -er vs. -or. To give counterexamples to some alleged rules that I've sometimes seen: Words ending in -er can be animate (runner, worker, speaker, reader) or inanimate (washer, dryer, circuit breaker, holder).
1 Answer. Noah Webster on '-er' and '-re' word endings (chiefly '-ter' and '-tre') One dedicated opponent of - re endings of the type that the poster has in mind was Noah Webster. Here is his discussion of such words in A Compendious Dictionary of the English Language (1806): re sceptre theatre metre mitre nitre lustre sepulchre spectre e re ...
Compare hand tools, e.g. hammer and screwdriver with hand tools, i.e. those able to be held in the user's hands. Print both in lower-case roman, with two points and no spaces, and preceded by a comma. In OUP style, 'e.g.' and 'i.e.' are not followed by commas, to avoid double punctuation; commas are often use in US practice.
The question really ought to be whether to say "clearer" or "more clearly." That's the confusing one. I believe it is correct to say that "I see more clearly now that I've wiped my windshield", and incorrect to say "I see clearer now that I've wiped my windshield."
"-er" implied something passive (eg, "receiver") while " -or " implied an active component (eg, " selector "). The explanation here is that THERE IS NOT such a " selecter " word, thus the " selector " IS VALID because the " selection " process is ALWAYS a one-shoot thing and differentiates among different options as options differentiate one to ...
1. From the Wikipedia article on 'Comparative': ... monosyllabic adjectives generally form their comparative form with -er in English, whereas polysyllabic adjectives prefer to use more. That is to say, adjectives with one syllable will usually use "-er", and anything else will use "more". So you would expect the comparative form of "fun" to be ...
As you can see, the /e/ in British chart is in the position " mid-near front " whereas the /e/ in standard IPA is in the position " close-mid-near front ". The confusing things are in the dictionary. See the word "bed", some American pronounce it as /ˈbɛd/ (Source: learnersdictionary.com), other American dictionaries write it as /bed/ (Source ...