The pronoun I began to be 'capitalized' around the middle of the 13th century. But this was not true capitalization. Note that it was long before the printing press: all texts were in manuscript. Before the 11th century, the letter i was normally just a short vertical line, without a dot. The j ...

Can I also use in when referring to someone who is already a member of Facebook?

We are providing an app which manages your finances — like a housekeeping book. Our space is limited; therefore, we want to use the slogan "Housekeeping App". Would an English speaker know what is meant by that?

We've been getting a rash of questions asking, essentially, what a programmer should name methods or properties. One such was a request for a word that meant both "add" and "remove" because the programmer wanted to have a method that could add or remove an element. Does this really fall under E...

Here is a quote from a book on C++ ("for", "while" and "do" are keywords in many languages, and in most languages they have to be in lower case. The C++ language is one of those.): Simply put, algorithm names suggest what they do. "for", "while", and "do" don't. One cannot write "For" inste...

This post is probably only tangentially related to the subject of the board (English language and usage), but I don't know where else to place it. I'm looking for some details regarding ISBNs. Are ISBN codes (International Standard Book Number) used for anything other than books? Maybe diploma...

As for the grammaticality of this phrase, in Portuguese we have an expression that is exactly a translation of “good people”, “gente boa”. It is pretty common in the informal register of the state of São Paulo. Unfortunately, as far as I know, there are no ngrams for Portuguese, so I can’t say f...

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While typing a post on SO, I noticed that the word "ok" (when used in the sentence "I'm still learning so it is ok") was marked as misspelled (got to love spellcheck!) The first suggestion, however, confused me. The suggestion was "OK" (as apposed to "ok"). Then I thought, what about "okay"? So,...

I'm confused about the differing pronunciations of words that end in "-b". For example, I remember being some of earliest teachers that the "-b" in limb was meant to be silent, and one should properly pronounce it as lim. Now, that seems to me in contrast with the pronunciation of the word ...

How do I refer to something that belongs to both myself and someone else? Example: - My friend's and I's party. - Mine and my friend's party. - My friend's and my party. I can't figure it out :/

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...