hi,"the terms you use are "coined phrases" not frequently used by the average English speaker,or the speaker of average english, however there is a practical approach to the usage of English, i.e. it is more than likely that 98% of

We already often informally use 'k' (kilo) for 1000, and, ... clearly-defined meanings and so there is no risk of confusion. Well, the "informal" use of K for 1000 very neatly

Markus Kuhn wrote on 20 Aug 2004: Have a look at http://www.icnirp.de/documents/broadband.pdf That's a 1.6Mb download. Don't you have an HTML version? as a good example of why capitalising titles of papers ... milli and micro unit prefixes

} }> As I've said before, and as you can gather from American usage }> guides, the word "use" with ... come up with another example of a fully conjugable verb that } isn't usable in all of its tenses? "Ought"? How

} }> As I've said before, and as you can gather from American usage }> guides, the word "use" with the sense "make it a practice" or "be }> accustomed" can be quite conveniently regarded as an ordinary

Acceptable in published work and acceptable in Scrabble are very different things. True. I would assume any Scrabble dictionary is very much proper a subset of English. One wouldn't think so, judging from the comments made by passers-by on

But if it be thought that, either now, or at ... 1790 Note that this was before the metric system existed, Not really. The form the metric system should take had been nearly decided by then, and practical preparations were well advanced. The key

http://channel9.msdn.com/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=9769 The word combobulated appeared in a reply to my ... Google and Yahoo, and all the dictionaries I know of: It is probably an error for discombobulate: It is probably a (jocularly intended, though

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