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- Whats the proper way to handwrite a lowercase letter A?
I believe every one of the images that came up for me has some form of the OP's version 2 for a printed a (At some point as an adult I switched over to the other a (fig 1), perhaps thinking there was less chance of my a being mistaken for an o )
- Is there any reason to prefer the AIC or BIC over the other?
There is no such constraint on Akaike's original derivation, or, to be clearer, on the derivation using the AIC as an estimator of the Kullback-Leibler divergence In fact, in a paper that I'm working on, I show somewhat "empirically" that the AIC can even be used for model selection of covariance structures (different number of parameters
- grammar - Pick up someone vs Pick someone up? - English Language . . .
Oxford Learner's Dictionary provides this notation for the relevant meanings of pick up: pick somebody <-> up pick somebody something <-> up The <-> means that the word before and after can appear in reverse order Technically, in example 1 I can either "pick the baby up" or "pick up the baby "
- Acronyms and Initialisms- Uppercase, Lowercase, or either
The Chicago Manual of Style, sixteenth edition (2010) briefly addresses the question of whether the spelled-out form of an initialism or acronym should be initial-capped if the short form is capitalized, at 10 6 Capital versus lowercase for acronyms and initialisms:
- adjectives - East Coast, East coast, or east coast? - English Language . . .
When it's used as a name, you capitalize it: I'm going to the East Coast this summer There are lots of farms in the Midwest When you're using it as a general description of a place, it's not capitalized: The east coast of the U S is a popular destination for tourists Illinois is a midwestern state
- Apostrophe s or ss - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
In this sentence should I use Apostrophe as s's or s'? I am always confused with what exactly the rule behind s' and s's The sentence is: Hours later Fadnavis's resignation, the the NCP-Congress leaders combined met Governor and staked claim to form the Government Fadnavis is the name of the Chief Minister (for your understanding)
- capitalization - Capitalize fields of study? - English Language Usage . . .
The University of Ottawa’s writing guide: Subject areas and disciplines Subject areas like biology, sociology, engineering, women’s studies and psychology are common nouns and don’t normally take a capital letter The University of Ottawa has programs in an array of disciplines, from mathematics and medicine to chemistry and criminology
- pronunciation - Whats the rule for pronouncing “’s” as z or s . . .
If the last sound in the base is an unvoiced consonant, we use s However, if the last sound in the base form is another sibilant of any description— s, z, ʃ, ʒ, tʃ, dʒ —we need to insert a vowel ɪ to make the ending audible Because this vowel is voiced the very last sound will be z
- Difference between under, underneath, below and beneath
"The child's ball rolled under the couch," and "The rat ran under the porch " (Most would not say "The rat ran below the porch") You could also say "The rat ran underneath the porch," really emphasizing the feeling in the listener's or reader's mind that the rat is now hiding under the porch
- Is it CoViD? Or COVID? Covid? How should the word be spelled?
Official nomenclature and journalistic practice A recent item by Elisabeth Ribbans, "COVID or Covid?The comfort of pedantry at a time of national crisis," in The Guardian (April 19, 2020), asserts that initial-capping acronyms (abbreviations pronounced phonetically as approximately the sum of their letter sounds, rather than as as a series of names of the constituent alphabet letters) is the
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