Okay, so in School I was always tought that when we want to abbreviate, we must use a full stop "." inbetween each letter, and if it's at the end of a sentence, a full stop at the end also (duh). But, everywhere I go now, I am faced with having to put up with bad grammar, incorrectly-spelled wor...

It depends on the type of abbreviations. USA is an initialism, and as such, does not require periods. The style of acronyms and initialisms no longer requiring periods is now becoming more prevalent. Abbreviations, generally, still require abbreviations (e.g. Prof. — Oh, and e.g.) Although there...

i want tell to some one i love you but not in that manner (indirectly but to get that idea) how can i do it with modern way? :) may be this is good for most of others even

I have noticed various marks in example sentences to denote incorrect examples of English: This is correct. *This incorrectly. The former is left alone; the latter has an asterisk marking the sentence as a bad example ‐ something to avoid and not repeat. Is this notation widely a...

What does Henry David Thoreau mean here when he says, "the Catskills and Highlands have hardly sunk to them": We get a dim notion of the flight of birds, especially of such as fly high in the air, by having ascended a mountain. We can now see what landmarks mountains are to their mi...

AAVE — African-American Vernacular English AE, AmE — American English AHD — American Heritage Dictionary BE, BrE — British English BNC — British National Corpus CGEL — Cambridge Grammar of the English Language COCA — Corpus of Contemporary American English COHA — Corpus of Historical American En...

Usual expedient: go to their profile, find a deserving question or answer of theirs and vote for it. Extra fun when you can bump them into a badge.

Speaking as someone who edits a lot, I don't need thanks, and I don't want to clutter up the comments with such thanks. Frankly, as long as you aren't rolling back my edits because you insist your mangled version was better, you've already thanked me.

I understand the phrase "believe you me" to be an emphatic version of "believe me" but how did it come to be? Is it a poor translation into English?

I want tell to someone "I love you", but not in that manner (indirectly but to get that idea). How can I do it in a modern way?

I often hear people use the word "jive" when I'm pretty sure they mean "jibe." It's a subtle sound difference so it's hard to catch. Is this something worth pointing out to the speaker?

I would say a simpler and more succinct answer is "Well put" or "Well said." By the way, that's a terrible example in question.

While we're are at full speed discussing various tags, I would like to bring to everyone's attention that we currently have 15 questions tagged english. I don't think that that tag serves any meaningful purpose on a site that is all about English. I took the liberty of removing the tag from quit...

Is this OK? You couldn't know how existing I know you. Minimal edit to make the question agree with the title: You couldn't know how exciting I know you. Well. Thanks for all. You are all so kind. If I get this Japanese girl, you are all my good friends!

I give up dating with girls and stay in home.

Since there is no "phrase-request" (and I had to fight for keeping the single-word-request), I would say that your best bet right now is to tag the question with both single-word-request and phrases. At least that's what I do in those cases. First of all, that makes it easy to search for this ...

Is anyone aware of a rule behind which nouns can be combined with a preceding "a good" to become an adjectival phrase. For example "He's a good shot" meaning he has good aim. How many more examples of this construction can EL&U think of?

This is a small point (some would say pedantic) concerning the following diagram that currently appears on the About page of Stack Overflow and other Stack Exchange sites: (This is an attachment. Here is the original link.) It is labeled as a Venn diagram, both by the name of the file (venn-d...

Is the word "who" an adverb? If not what is it? If it is an adverb w, what type of adverb is it?