Incidences vs incidents - English Language & Usage Stack Exchange
2014年8月8日 · I will analyze the incidences of traffic accidents which occurred last year. You should use singular incidence. I will analyze the incidence of traffic accidents which occurred …
word choice - English Language & Usage Stack Exchange
2010年8月29日 · However, there are 172 incidences in the Corpus of Contemporary American English, and all but a handful are in the “academic” section, representing formal academic …
When to use 'an' and when to use 'a' with words begining with 'h'?
2010年8月14日 · For example, in the Corpus of Contemporary American English, there are 1956 incidences of a historical but only 415 incidences of an historical. However, using an here is …
"Dammit" vs. "damnit" - English Language & Usage Stack Exchange
2012年8月23日 · The usage stats from the British National Corpus (BNC) look as follows:. ALL SPOKEN FICTION MAGAZINE NEWSPAPER ACADEMIC NON-ACAD MISC dammit 125 3 …
"Synced" or "synched" - English Language & Usage Stack Exchange
The Corpus of Contemporary American English has 30 incidences of synced and 14 of synched. Over half of the incidences of synced are from the magazine PC World, though. Synced does …
Is there an alternative to the word "coincidence" to describe when …
Is there a word to describe a scenario where two people having a conversation utter the same word/phrase together, simultaneously, and unconsciously? Something else than just a …
"that" + "would" = "that'd"? - English Language & Usage Stack …
There are many incidences of that’d meaning “that would” in the Corpus of Contemporary American English: SPOKEN 208 (2.39/million words) FICTION 384 (4.7/million words) …
"Email" or "e-mail"? - English Language & Usage Stack Exchange
2016年10月30日 · From these results, we see that e-mail was on a meteoric rise in the 1990s and by 2000 it has locked in at between 70 and 100 incidences per million words. Email , on the …
grammaticality - When should I use "a" versus "an" in front of a …
2010年8月13日 · The number of incidences in the Corpus you have cited says nothing about whether the "an" usage is dying out, increasing, or staying the same. Simply that it is less …
What is somebody who can "predict" or "see" into the future called?
2015年6月16日 · There is the word prognosticator which according to Merriam Webster means one who predicts future events or developments and defined by Lexico (powered by Oxford) …