word choice - What is the name of the symbols - and gt;? 22 They can also be called chevrons, or angle brackets While these terms can be interchangeable in a layman's context, and would not look so different when written by hand, there are 4 different symbols in the Unicode standard, and they have different usages In mathematics, "greater than" and "lesser than" would be the correct precise terms
What is it called when you buy something for free? For example, imagine some food company decides to make their fruits permanently free Online, you can quot;order quot; them (for free), but in person, what do you do? What would be the professiona
Named vs called - English Language Usage Stack Exchange Over on Stackoverflow, I keep seeing questions wherein posters say: *I have an item named SoAndSo (a table, a file, etc ) Shouldn't it be: *I have an item called SoAndSo Is "named" an accepta
etymology - Why is muscle cramp called a “charley horse”? - English . . . The history told me nothing why an involuntary, extremely painful spasm, is named after a horse called Charley Charley in the UK is often spelled Charlie, a diminutive of Charles, and it's also used to call a foolish or silly person Who was Charley; was it the name of a horse?
What do you call words such as “the, an, a, to, and”? Welcome to EL U I think most of the contributors here would take issue with the notion that words like the or and "serve little purpose"; an evening with the Queen would probably be rather different from one with Queen — or with a queen for that matter Are you simply referring to very common words, for example, to ignore when indexing text?
What is it called when someone implies something without directly . . . What is it called when someone implies something without directly saying it, so they can deny they said what they were implying Example: "Only a certain type of people put raisins in potato salad and you know who they are"