Sep 1, 2011 · Which of real time, real-time and realtime is correct when you are talking about seeing something as it happens?

Dec 16, 2010 · I'm in the "on-time" camp when it comes to describing, for example, delivering something by the deadline. Is this the correct usage?

Dec 17, 2010 · This is an interesting topic. To add to bikeboy389's response: the purpose of something is the reason it exists. The purpose behind something is the reason in the mind of whoever was …

Feb 21, 2011 · This is called " complimentary close ". As reported by Oxford Handbook of Commercial Correspondence: If the letter begins with Dear Sir, Dear Sirs, Dear Madam, or Dear Sir/Madam, the …

Nov 14, 2019 · I know that Mr. is short for Mister and Mrs. is short for Mistress. Is there any comparable way to abbreviate "Master" that is distinguishable from Mister? Or would it just be Mr. again?

Dec 29, 2022 · Do we use articles with the names of celebrations? Maybe we can but haven't got to, that is, it's optional? I shan't have written my essay by the time [the] New Year begins.

Jun 9, 2011 · What is the origin of the phrase shit-eating grin? How did it come to mean showing smugness or self-satisfaction of an individual's actions?

Dec 6, 2010 · Pale in this idiom comes from Latin pālus 'stake'; it means a fencepost, and by ordinary extension it also means the fence itselt, and the area it contains or delimits. So beyond the pale just …

May 17, 2011 · Question pretty self-explanatory. Should the abbreviation of the Latin term philosophiae doctor be written as PhD (no periods) or Ph.D. (with periods)?

Aug 17, 2011 · Some people do have an informal contraction this’s, with a much reduced or non-existent vowel in the second syllable, contrasting with a more formal this is with a full vowel in the second …