This can be ambiguous because these words are each formed from two different senses of the prefix “bi” meaning either “occurring every two” or “occurring ….
Month: May 2021
It’s “beyond the pale” and not “beyond the pail.” The phrase has nothing to do with buckets. https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/pale https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/pail To go “beyond the pale” is ….
When I say “I better run to the grocery and get some eggs,” I mean “I had better,” abbreviated to “I’d better” and further abbreviated ….
If the question had been, “Why do you tend to write characters in desperate circumstances?” I could have answered that question without the soul-searching. But this question was, “Why is it important to you to write characters in desperate circumstances.
So, here’s the thing. You can try to be “as good as” you can be or do something “as well as” you can do it. ….
BLUF: (Bottom Line Up Front) The plural of belief is beliefs. belief: a state or habit of mind in which trust or confidence is placed ….
Using “being that” or “being as how” to mean “because” or “since” is, well let’s just say, nonstandard. Using “being that” as a subordinating conjunction ….
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“Shallow men believe in luck or in circumstance. Strong men believe in cause and effect.” ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
The rarely used verb beggar means to reduce to poverty, or the practice of asking for charity. You beggar people by impoverishing them, thus reducing ….
Dear Weeping Editor, I am one of those writers that… makes you cry sometimes. Lately I’ve struggled with ellipsis… or ellipses… however it’s spelled. I ….