BLUF: (Bottom Line Up Front) The plural of blood is blood. Blood is a non-countable noun. It has no plural. blood: the fluid that circulates ….
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BLUF: (Bottom Line Up Front) The plural of bison is bison. bison: any of several large bovine mammals (genus Bison) that have a long, broad ….
A bite is a portion that is taken away by the rasping of teeth or the wound left from the rasping of teeth. A bite ….
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 ….
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 ….
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 ….
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 ….