Aug 7, 2015 · Which is the proper spelling? "I am just gaging interest" "I am just gauging interest" Google searching is giving me inconsistent results. Also: If the answer is "gaging", why does the 'u' …

Aug 4, 2011 · Regarding the issue of whether the initial consonant is a soft or hard g, it is funny enough to note that while the English word, with it hard g, comes from the Old French (which had soft g), the …

Sep 18, 2014 · But I'm not sure about prime. We will have multiple items with the label prime, and I am not sure if prime should only be used with a singleton. Are prime, major, minor, and slight the best …

Jan 4, 2017 · Hi didn't mean for you to heat it it, you hinfernal rogue you!" It seems to me extremely likely that the blushworthy "bloody hell" of the 1800s was rendered in some quarters as the …

Apr 10, 2015 · It seems fairly clear that the controversy over focusing on standardized testing as a means of gauging the quality of education that a school offers has caused this small geyser of pig …

Apr 30, 2014 · In the OED, the last listed usage of "dice" as a singular noun occurred in 1751. If that makes me a fashionista for looking down on "dice" as a singular noun, then so be it! It's a little …

Therefore and returning to the case of re-establish vs. reestablish, it comes down to a question of popular usage and somehow gauging if one spelling trumps the other. On ELU, we do this by …

Mar 30, 2021 · Just as most parents think their kids are smart, when definitional reality says half of all kids are below average, personal assertions of one's "averageness" are not at all useful in gauging …

Jun 7, 2018 · To effect the same [gauging a means of conveying water over a distance of 1,000 yards] by the Water or Spirit-Level, you are to stand at the Spring-head, and having turn’d your instrument …

Dec 2, 2014 · Moreso and more so are both correct, but in different contexts. Example: Anna's performance was good, but Emma's more so. In this example, the "so" in more so relates back to the …