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"More Bored" Vs "Boreder" - English Language & Usage Stack …
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single word requests - What is the name of the area of skin …
Apr 29, 2014 · @Doorknob - Elliot has named it correctly. The upper lip is skin-covered, skin-colored, and hairy. The pink parts are called the upper and lower vermilion, the border between the skin and the vermilion is called the vermilion border, the wet, shiny inner portion of what people call the "lips" is called the wet vermilion or the mucosa.
adjectives - East Coast, East coast, or east coast? - English …
Apr 29, 2015 · Yet the West Midlands is to all intents a proper noun and always capitalised, as is East Anglia. The 'Home Counties' is the collective name given to the six counties which border London, but I am always at a loss as to whether to apply capitals.I think I will compose a …
Origin of the idiom "go south" - English Language & Usage Stack …
Sep 19, 2011 · go south (also head south, take a turn south) 1 v phr by 1940s To disappear; fail by or as if by vanishing [examples omitted] 2 v phr by 1925 To abscond with money loot, etc. [examples omitted] 3 v phr underworld by 1950 To cheat, esp to cheat at cards [examples omitted] 4 v phr by 1980s To lessen; diminish [examples omitted] Probably from the ...
phrases - English Language & Usage Stack Exchange
Aug 5, 2012 · Based on what I understand of the words, verge seems to suggest the border between two things or a line between two spaces. Think of the word converge. That means basically to come together at the verge. So the verge has two sides.
meaning - English Language & Usage Stack Exchange
Aug 13, 2018 · Latin margo means "edge, border". The margins of a page are the white spaces at the edges of a page around the text. Because pages are rectangular, there are the side margins (left and right), the top or upper margin, and the bottom or lower margin (also called the foot(er) ).
etymology - English Language & Usage Stack Exchange
Aug 20, 2011 · having the same border or covering the same area. being the same in extent; coextensive in range or scope. Its definitions of "conterminous": having a common boundary; bordering; contiguous. meeting at the ends; without an intervening gap: In our calendar system, the close of one year is conterminous with the beginning of the next. coterminous.
word choice - English Language & Usage Stack Exchange
Dec 23, 2014 · I use yessir as a slang form of yes, sir all the time. Is it even a word? Would the slang version, yessir, be deemed as derogatory, offensive, or simply disrespectful to someone your senior?
What is a word that describes both "entry" and "exit"?
Jun 30, 2020 · If you had to describe two locations, an "entry" and an "exit", what one word would encapsulate both meanings? For example, I would describe them as "access locations"...
terminology - Word for the back side of a letter - English …
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