One of the most coveted players in the NHL is a right-handed defenseman. Add to that great size, durability and offensive talent, and you get Czechian blueliner David Jiricek. The draft prospect is ...
The question is: why did the English adapt the name pineapple from Spanish (which originally meant pinecone in English) while most European countries eventually adapted the name ananas, which came from the Tupi word nanas (also meaning pineapple).
Why the voiced /z/ won out over the voiceless /s/ is not clear to me. Modern French mostly uses /gz/, as in xénophobie, but I don't know the history of how the modern French pronunciation of word-initial x became established.
Most is defined by the attributes you apply to it. "Most of your time" would imply more than half, "the most time" implies more than the rest in your stated set. Your time implies your total time, where the most time implies more than the rest. I think "most" leads to a great deal of ambiguity.
What does the word "most" mean? - English Language & Usage Stack Exchange
Which one of the following sentences is the most canonical? I know most vs. the most has been explained a lot, but my doubts pertain specifically to which one to use at the end of a sentence. Do...
"most" vs "the most", specifically as an adverb at the end of sentence
The adverbial use of the definite noun the most synonymous with the bare-adverbial most to modify an entire clause or predicate has been in use since at least the 1500s and is an integral part of English.
grammar - When to use "most" or "the most" - English Language & Usage ...
I've recently come across a novel called A most wanted man, after which being curious I found a TV episode called A most unusual camera. Could someone shed some light on how to use "a most" and wh...
superlative degree - How/when does one use "a most"? - English Language ...
Here "most" means "a plurality". Most dentists recommend Colgate toothpaste. Here it is ambiguous about whether there is a bare majority or a comfortable majority. From the 2nd Language Log link: I searched on Google for the pattern "most * percent", and picked out of the first 150 hits all the examples like these:
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Welcome to the most wildest show on earth. Someone pointed out the most wildest and I was wondering if it was OK to use most with a word that ends in -est together.
grammar - Is it correct to use "most" + "-est" together? - English ...
1 If your question is about frequency, in both the Corpus of Contemporary English and the British National Corpus there are three times as many records for most as for the most.
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I was always under impression that "most important" is correct usage when going through the list of things. We need to pack socks, toothbrushes for the trip, but most important is to pack underwe...
During most of history, humans were too busy to think about thought. Why is "most of history" correct in the above sentence? I could understand the difference between "Most of the people" and "Most
These are questions that most people could answer. Another way to look at it: "What TV show do you spend most of the time watching?" is a loaded question. It already implies that I spend most of my time watching TV. Compare it to "What spills do you spend most of the time cleaning up?" which will annoy me because I don't spill anything.
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Possible Duplicate: What is the difference between “speaking” and “talking”? I'm often befuddled when I am reading an article and the author uses talked with when referring to a conversation he/she had. I've always used spoke with in such a case and sounds odd to me when used otherwise. When is it proper to use talked with or spoke with?
I thought we talked about this before. Meaning: Why are you bringing this up again? We talked about ___________ before. On the other hand, imagine the same two people conversing, and one of them, in looking back on an incident which occurred, say, a day ago, says I thought we had talked about this before.
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I'm trying to find the grammar rule or term that explains these types of sentences: The movie was about how we all need to love each other. She talked about how there is a great fear of technology...
A Strange Conditional: "I couldn’t have talked to her that day if I ...
- "The more he talked of his honor" 2 (the more suspicious he was and sounded like a thief) 3) then follows "the more we counted our spoons" (silverware) to make sure they were still there.
The louder he talked of his honor, the faster we counted our spoons
We just talked over the phone. Is what I've always used. I believe by "phone" we mean the phone lines, or phone system, rather than any physical phone.
For example, nobody likes to use the restroom after they take a shower because you slide around on the seat, but that's not something commonly talked about between persons. Or the well understood,...
You've known each other for years. You've talked for hours at a time before. You regularly interact in person and/or online. It's not that you don't like them. You're just neutral to them. You neit...
For example: "Have you talked to my mom today?" is a common question we ask. Now the discussion came up when some of our friends pointed out that it was weird and incorrect for us to say "my mom" since we share the same mom and are siblings and that we should just say "mom".