Why does "droid" take the article "an", shouldn't it be "a"?

It is not an article, the original term is android, droid is a later variant. Android: "automaton resembling a human being," 1837, in early use often in reference to automated chess players, from Modern Latin androides (itself attested as a Latin word in English from 1727), from Greek and...

Olá... I'm a Brazilian native, let me see if I can help you with this. When we give a pet name to someone using a word that doesn't inflect for gender, such as "o açúcar", for example, the correct form would be to keep the gender as it is. If you want to call a girl little sugar, you would say: ...

I would like to say a sentence with and the imperative verb at the end. How can I do this. For example: "Start the topology with 4 things." should be transformed to something like "Topology with 4 things, start." (which sounds strange). Another option might be "Start topology with 4 thing, now....

Can anyone help with this sentence? Is my punctuation here correct? If you sell bicycles, sell as many accessories as you can; water bottles; pumps; and biking gear, such as shoes, gloves, caps and more.

Well, and here's the perception of someone from Portugal. You say tu és o meu amor, a minha paixão, o meu tormento no matter whether you’re addressing a male or a female. With meu/minha + vocative only (no tu és o/a) sticking to the noun’s gender sounds natural. I’d say it is compulsory when the...

I am curious as to whether English had any plural articles like in French with "les" and "des".

Your reader's intuition about the word "backpack" seems right on; that word appears to have skyrocketed in popularity after the 1960s: You can use ngrams and a thesaurus to identify words that didn't seem popular, or to verify which of several words were more popular during a certain period. No...