A frequent hedge is arr, but the variations yar, yarr, and yargh are also quite common. Is there a distinction in meaning between arr and the yar variants, or are these simply different spellings of the …

Feb 21, 2025 · Is "tri-quarterly" a real English word meaning 3 times a year? Are there any other words that mean 3 times a year?

In the last year, last year, in the past year How do such things come into being? We may assume that the beginnings were something like this: When was it? - That was in the last year. Then you may …

Is "yay or nay" an acceptable alternative to "yea or nay"? I have seen it several times in recent weeks, enough to make me wonder whether it is an emerging usage or just a common typo.

In the context of the following sentence: "This report gives an overview of x, which took place between the second and final year of my degree from xmonth to ymonth." Should I be using the word y...

The word year when pronounced starts with a phonetic sound of e which is a vowel sound making it eligible for being preceded by an. Yet, we tend to write a year. Why?

A great many style guides address the question of whether or not to separate the month and year with a comma in phrases of the type "January[,] 2018"—and yet, to my surprise, a search of English La...

I know per annum is from Latin, but what are the real-world differences between these two phrases? Dictionary.com appears to suggest that they are synonyms (see definition below), but I wonder if one

Feb 21, 2023 · I recommend "in the year 1908" then. It's hard to argue in any case that the year belonged to or derived from "1908", which would warrant the use of the word "of". AKA "Freud is a …

Jul 29, 2011 · From WordWeb: Annual: Occurring or payable every year What is the corresponding single word for occurring every two year, three year, four year etc. I understand that it's surely not …