May 6, 2011 · @Lefteris Gkinis Orthography is an English word that had origin from a Greek word; translating a word in Greek, and reporting what that means in Greek is essentially wrong …

My company gives out free promotional items with the company name on it. Is this stuff called company swag or schwag? It seems that both come up as common usages—Google …

I was at a museum in London yesterday, and one of the items on exhibit is a document from the eighteenth century. It uses the letter f a lot where s should be used—for example, in Majefty. …

Oct 13, 2020 · In German it causes back vowels /a/, /o/ and /u/ to shift forward in the mouth to /ɛ/, /ø/ and /y/, respectively. In modern German orthography, the affected graphemes a , o and u …

I don't know enough to attempt a proper answer, but my sneaking suspicion is "yes, there are a lot of rules, with a lot of exceptions, which in turn create further rules and exceptions, to the point …

Jun 30, 2017 · This fallacy arises from the incorrect application of the rules linking orthography to phonology 1, resulting in an argument that 'ghoti' should be pronounced similarly to 'fish': gh, …

Feb 25, 2017 · That's how native speakers do it (or, in the case of certain native speakers, never do..). In other words: don't try to predict the right answer: English orthography is notoriously …

Apr 13, 2017 · Okay, since now we know what is the origin of OK (I like the Oll Korrect version), I have another question about it's relative: What is an "Oki-doki" or "Oki-dokie" or "Okay-dokay"?

Jan 11, 2021 · If you take a makeup test, is it correct to call it a makeup, make up, or make-up test? I know that makeup is also what some people put on their faces to look different. I think …

FWIW in my 68+ years this is the first time i've seen "whereas" with a diaeresis; for that reason, i'd not call “Whereäs” as an alternative spelling of “whereas” a duplicate of this thread or vice …