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| What year will it be next year? | 25 Mar 2010 13:51 GMT | 5 |
What year will it be next year? I refer to the common era calendar,
although "other calendaring systems are available".
In the common era calendar, next year will of course be "2010". But my
question is: will we stick with the "noughties" habit where it will
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| Definite article before a band's name? | 24 Mar 2010 19:43 GMT | 11 |
A friend of mine used the phrase "Worship and Music by 13 A.D." Here
13 A.D. is the name of the band. Shouldn't it be "Worship and music by
the 13 A.D. ?
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| linguistic question: 'e' ending + 'able' suffix | 21 Mar 2010 20:35 GMT | 19 |
how can I call in English a thing which e.g. "cannot be closed"?
Uncloseable or unclosable? Are they any rules for leaving or throwing
away the final letter E while adding the -able suffix?
Btw. unclos(e)able or inclos(e)able?
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| Captain Jack Sparrow's florid style | 07 Mar 2010 17:14 GMT | 4 |
I am having trouble to get the meaning of this 'weasely black guts'
piece in the sentences I cite below. Does 'guts' in this case mean
something like 'fortitude' or 'attitude', perhaps? But to pilfer it
out? If my assumption as to the meaning of 'guts' was correct I'd
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