What is the correct abbreviation of engineer? In my organization, some of my colleagues use Eng. and some use Engr.
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According to the OED renumeration / remuneration are interchangeable. So too are the associated verbs - renumerate / remunerate. However, some commentators have strong feelings about renumeration being used with its first-cited meaning (i.e. remuneration, see below) "... to be avoided at all costs is the metathesized form renumeration." (R. W. Burchfield New Fowler's Mod. Eng. Usage (1996) 666 ...
I remember being told that "teh" (a common misspelling of "the") is actually a proper (though very old and no longer in common usage) English word. Teh was used as an example that if every single
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playing A guitar - is wrong, but why? how does it sound to an Eng.speaker?
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A close, suffocating atmosphere, a choking vapour or smoke, a smoky sulphurous smell (Dmf. s.Sc. 1825 Jam.; Rxb. 1923 Watson W.-B.; s.Sc. 1971). Also in n.Eng. dial. This would seem to apply to smoking cooking oil. In other words, something that stifles; the word is apparently a back formation thereof. OED attests it as far back as 1636.
I read a sentence containing the word thy, but I cannot find the meaning of that word. Is it older English, or is it still used in contemporary English today?
1966 G. W. Turner Eng. Lang. in Austral. & N.Z. vi. 135 A different influence of written language is seen in the use of same as a pronoun equivalent to it, as in ‘put the tailboard up and secure same with a length of wire’ from New Zealand (Wally Crump, 1964), a facetious borrowing of lawyer's English which is quite common.