By Expressions, Dates

Just my impression (I'm way out of date on this.) In my experience, industrial products, especially lubricants, were purchased in 55-gal. steel drums - sometimes 30-gal. These were cylindrical, with two ridges formed into the circumference for reinforcement.I think of barrels as wooden,...

The preposition is indeed sometimes dropped before the days of the week in newspapers: He will arrive in Cairo Wednesday. The resultant Wednesday becomes what in some other languages is called an accusative of time. Dropping the preposition is also fairly common in informal style, which has led...

Most of what we call "capes" are big enough to accomodate a town or two or three - Cape Canaveral, Cape Cod. In New England, Cape Cod is simply referred to as "the cape." The ones you're referring to are usually called "points," or "a point of...

I agree too, and have for all of my adult life, except for three or four hours last night, when I understood that the definition from the questioner's dictionary was the correct one. When I found that MW Unabridged defined the expression as "at or on (a specific time or date),"...

Stephen Conway 1995 Literature and Virtue in Sidney’s “Apology for Poetry” In "An Apology for Poetry" Sir Philip Sidney attempts to reassert the fundamental importance of literature to society in general as well as to other creative and intellectual...

I'm not a rabid fan, but I've never heard it applied to a pitch. But there are many, many expressions used to describe "specialty" pitches. I tend to think of the expression as describing flies on which the umpire calls the "infield fly rule," but I guess it also...

A: Let's go over there and see whether they rent kayaks. B: It seems like nobody is guarding the booth. Maybe they are closed today. (what conjuction word/phrase should I use here). It has been raining for the past 3 days and there still are rain clouds in the sky. A: We'll see. I...

Each of us is molded by whatever culture in which we grew up. As we grow and mature, we naturally become used to the style of dress, the types of food, hygiene, and the general cultural norms of our environment. By the time we are adults, we have become molded to the customs and lifestyles of...

Hello. Sorry to hear you're feeling uncomfortable with this type of activity. But you're not alone: I would be, too!The sentences lack context, which makes it difficult to tell when tense changes are necessary and when they are not (among other things).There is one sentence that is wrong...

I found found this on Wikipedia:In Canadian law, a Reference Question is a submission by the federal or a provincial government to the courts asking for an opinion on a major legal issue.Perhaps reference mean somewhat the same as a reference question.I would have taken when, as and if as when we...