Possible Duplicate: Why does my location in stackoverflow profile change? If you currently check my profile, it says my location is "Andøy, Norway". I'm sure Andøy, Norway is a lovely place (løvely?) and have nothing against it, but I certainly didn't set that location myself, so I ...

We're doing a best-guess match on locations across the network in an effort to get more consistent location formats for all the users, for example mine would be "Winston-Salem, NC", "City, ST", or "Something, Ontario" for Canada, "London, United Kingdom". To do this we needed to perform a backfi...

Metadata is "data about data". Are there another words with the similar meaning?

I am trying to figure out the meaning of prefix "Meta-" in English. Quoted from Wikipedia Meta- (from Greek: μετά = "after", "beyond", "with", "adjacent", "self"), is a prefix used in English (and other Greek-owing languages) to indicate a concept which is an abstraction from anot...

A while back I was talking about it with friends. Another question indicates a few meanings of the "meta-" prefix. Considering that "meta" means, in simple words, "about itself" (like how metadata is data about data), what would be the appropriate prefix to mean the opposite relationship? It se...

I'm creating a database that includes so-called Sites. Those Sites have an address and furthermore a shipment address. Those addresses include phone numbers but the postal part is the most important. On the other hand there are Service people you can call on the cellphone. (They don't necessaril...

How does one diagram this sentence: Who made him jump into the pit?

Is it correct to say something like Could you please review Matt and I's document?" I am trying to show possession for two people, but it just doesn't sound right.

I just stumbled upon a Reddit post titled: My wife and I's seafood collaboration dinner. How does it look? Sure enough, the top comment immediately points out that it should be "my wife's and my". However, a cross-post to the Grammar subreddit produced the following comment: It's fine a...

Why? Because you don't want to scare off all the semi-professionals and countless lay people who are performing in choirs and ensembles all over the country. They are hard pressed to get their notes right, without worrying about whether they are preparing three "choruses" for the next concert or ...

The verb to be does not take an object, so subject and complement are the same [nominative] case. This means that subject and complement can be reversed without doing great violence to the meaning. "I was the captain" or the slightly stilted "The captain was I" say the same thing. So in this case...

Quite a few words are mispronounced by under-educated people, or people learning English as a second language. Some words are often mispronounced by quite educated people who read, and began reading high-level literature before they heard the vocabulary spoken. This can lead to a vocabulary diss...

Short answer Yes, this argument does have a basis in linguistic fact, which is why some people do it in the first place, but that doesn't mean it must be correct in Standard English (and it isn't). Longer Answer This argument does hold water in the linguistic sense. "My wife and I" is, in fac...

With words that indicate portions—some, all, none, percent, fraction, part, majority, remainder, and so forth How can we cdecide the Verb will be singular Or Plural> None of the garbage was/were picked up. None of the chairs was/were comfortable. She inspected all of the plates and none wa...

In English, the number 0 is treated as plural. It is then: 0 seconds 1 second 1.2 seconds 2 seconds Shouldn't it be "nobody want to go there," instead of "nobody wants to go there"? I also saw in TOEFL that "any __" should be used with a singular. But I see it very common that it is ...

In my grammar book (English Grammar, HarperCollins Publishers), I read that none is occasionaly treated as plural, but it is usually regarded as singular. Can you give me an example of sentence where none is used as plural pronoun?

Possible Duplicate: None as plural indefinite pronoun because none of them sound/s like the obvious choice to me

Today I came across the following sentence: We asked for help and were given none. It feels and sounds right to me. However, after decomposing none into not one, it becomes apparent that you can't have one help in this context. So is none the right word to use originally? If so, what doe...

Possible Duplicate: None as plural indefinite pronoun I was programming when it suddenly struck me that I did not know if "none" should be singular or plural. Fore instance, should I write "none is yellow", or "none are yellow", if I know nothing more about what "none" refers to? In ...

I got an email today Medical will be sending some people over to give a talk, namely Joe Foo and Bob Bar. I know the dictionary says namely means adverb /ˈnāmlē/  That is to say; to be specific (used to introduce detailed information or a specific example) - to me there is only one ...

If you define a direction on a plane as either positive or negative, what would you call its positive/negativeness? Its orientation? I feel like there is a better word out there for this. So like, if there is an arrow that starts at (0,0) and has a slope of 1, and there is another arrow that ...