i's and t's are not acronums.  They are the plural form of the letters i and t.  The reference about school children refers to writing in a hurry and forgetting to put a dot over the letter i and to remember to cross the t.  It admonishes

Thank you, Clive. I thought the article would be inappropriate because of the related noun (idioms) which is in plural...

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I'm not sure what you mean by 'what caused the error?', errors have many causes. 1. I "walk-id" to school today. - Should be pronounced walkd . The speaker assumes that the written form 'walked' has two syllables. 2.

"Mind your own business" is an idiom. It means "do not interfere in my affairs". Business is not made plural. "The children's lives" is correct. In a group of many people, there are many lives.

Hi, I'm translating some text, and I'm quite doubtful about a few sentences. I'm confused whether two parts of the sentence should be "has" or "have" or "had": events (plural) have formula (singular) has

#2. in a hurry Why is hurry countable in #2? English is weird enough for a to be used with un countable nouns in idioms now and then. A need not mean that the noun following it is sometimes used in the plural. One of the most common of

I feel so much better having shared all this with you. I feel so much better having shared this all with you. (adjective ) (pronoun ) (prepositional phrase) Thanks for jumping in, verbatim. The next step was to do

Sorry for the late response. I've been thinking about what you said and I'm still not entirely convinced that the form "something as as " is incorrect. It is certainly not uncommon. I found the following sentence in a review by

Usually,"string" is plural. "No strings attached" is an idiom. It means that there are no tricks, limitations, hidden conditions, or other things that you have to do to get what is being offered.