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- In British English, should it be licensee or licencee?
We all know that quot;license quot; in American English is quot;licence quot; in British English But what about the person to whom the licence is given? Various dictionaries show the 'c' versio
- Whats the difference between licensing and licensure?
Suppose I remove "issues" and "issues of" in the third example: "The organization deals with professional [licensing|licensure] " Isn't that a legitimate construction with the words being nouns in either case?
- Havent we? vs Dont we? - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
We have plenty of time, don't we? We have plenty of time, haven't we? Which is correct - 1 or 2? They have already sent you the invitation, didn't they? They have already sent you the invitation, h
- What is the difference between illicit and illegal?
I like this answer best because it's brief and to the point About the only relevant information missing is mention of the finer nuance as to why people ever use illicit rather than illegal I think it's normally either because the writer wishes to emphasis that the debarring authority is something other than law, or to indicate less than total endorsement of the particular law involved
- Why does law use assigns instead of assignees?
Assign is typically a verb Only in legal writing do we see it used as a noun, meaning "the entity to which something is assigned," and usually as part of a "successors and assigns" clause Every
- Thru vs. through - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
Slang is “very informal usage in vocabulary and idiom that is characteristically more metaphorical, playful, elliptical, vivid, and ephemeral than ordinary language” Since thru is the exact same word as through, it cannot possibly be considered slang Spelling is always an approximation anyway; spoken language is primary Now, if you and your friends used bazinga to mean "through", that
- phrase requests - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
Suppose there are 3 options available to the President He is going to choose to wear a blue tie, a red tie, or a green tie Those options are "mutually exclusive", because he can only realistica
- capitalization - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
Relevant example of genericisation: the derringer Once upon a time the Philadelphia Deringer was a specific firearm made by Henry Deringer, but since then "derringer" (sic) has become a generic term for a specific kind of firearm regardless of manufacturer By contrast, "Uzi" is still associated with a specific manufacturer and its licensees
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