Discussion Groups / English Usage / January 2007

I recently came across the word auxilium, as a reference to a person
who belongs to an auxiliary organization.
I can't find any reference to this word, so I am wondering if it's
correct or if this is a misspelling of a legitimate word.

It means something like "if you know the problem, you will know the answer"

"I take my stupidity to get good"
I heard this sentence on the radio in an african country.
Is it a good sentence?

I want to ask several common adjectives for the following descriptions.
1) What's the adjective to describe the action of 'using someone' to
accomplish something? I heard people say 'Person A
is using Person B to accomplish the task.'

how would you call a photo, that was taken with a low exposure time
(something around 1/10s) and is therefore not clear?
Is it a:
- wiggly picture

"She had him detail her brand new black Mercedes 560 SL."
What did he do?  Is this AmE?
TIA

My boss said the following, but I think he misspoke:
"It is the career opportunities, the nurturing opportunities, the
events that you get to participate in, and the friends that you get to
make for a lifetime that differentiates this program."

I'm Wojtek from Poland.What means word "baghdaddy".I saw this word on
t-shirts U.S. troops in Iraq.Could You help me?
Regards
Wojtek

Problem posed in another thread (acknowledgements to Tom)
When you buy alphabetti Spaghetti in Iceland, do you get eths and
thorns? Is
there Cyrillic and Greek alphabet pasta? In Japan, do you get katakana

McDonald's has registered as a trademark the phrase "Big N' Tasty."
Capital N, one apostrophe only after the N. The capital strikes me as
very odd and unjustified; but the omission of the first apostrophe for
the omitted "A" in "and" seems almost universal in American signage.

Can you please correct this sentence for me?
This year I get up earlier because my first lesson starts at 8 0'clock.

The devil is the master of this world. Yet he trembles with fear and
aversion whenever he sees the truth. So he doesn't want to see it. He wants
to stunt its development or preferably choke it altogether. He uses all the
tools he possesses to attain his goal. His tools, or those ...

Just as "performance" or "speed" is the noun form of "fast" (or
"quickly"), what is the noun form of "atomic" in the sense of
indivisible ?
"Indivisibility" does not have the right ring to it.

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