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Grammatical abbreviations are generally written in full or small caps to visually distinguish them from the translations of lexical words. For instance, capital or small-cap PAST (frequently abbreviated to PST) glosses a grammatical past-tense morpheme, while lower-case 'past' would be a literal translation of a word with that meaning.
A nerd is a person seen as overly intellectual, obsessive, introverted, or lacking social skills.Such a person may spend inordinate amounts of time on unpopular, little known, or non-mainstream activities, which are generally either highly technical, abstract, or relating to niche topics such as science fiction or fantasy, to the exclusion of more mainstream activities.
a notional source of unexpected or illogical questions, ideas, etc. ("that proposal came out of left field") [585] Defined by the Merriam-Webster online American dictionary as having American baseball-related origins [586]
“The rule is simple: If you say the S, spell the S,” he argued. That puts them on the same side as The New York Times, The Washington Post and The Wall Street Journal — and at odds with AP.
The Nerd, a 1981 Broadway comedy play written by Larry Shue; N.E.R.D., a rock/hip hop group fronted by Pharrell Williams; Nerds 2.0.1, a 1998 documentary film; NERD, a science and technology journal published by students of the Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur
The following is a handy reference for editors, listing various common spelling differences between national varieties of English. Please note: If you are not familiar with a spelling, please do some research before changing it – it may be your misunderstanding rather than a mistake, especially in the case of American and British English spelling differences.
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The word "peeler" of similar origin, is used in Northern Ireland. Bob's your uncle "there you go", "it's that simple". [37] (Some areas of US have the phrase Bob's your uncle, Fanny's your aunt) bod a person [38] [39] bodge a cheap or poor (repair) job, can range from inelegant but effective to outright failure. e.g.