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Dec 1, 2013 · These results hardly prove that teenager passed teen-ager in popularity in the 1950s, but they do indicate a major shift in proportionate use of teenager and teen-ager in the 1950s compared with the 1940...
Sep 22, 2010 · ADDED: Nohat's response below answers my question: The non-anxious sense of "anxious to" is common enough to have made it into at least some dictionaries. I note that the New Oxford American Dictionary ...
Per the Macmillan dictionary, aged is an adjective: aged, adj. : someone who is aged 18, 35, 70, etc. is 18, 35, 70, etc. years old A woman aged 50 has given birth to twins. Men aged between 18 and 35 are most at risk...
Aug 10, 2023 · @Jay Dictionary definitions only take you so far. People feel outrage when their country or village is attacked, say; it can begin as disbelief that this is actually happening to them, and that disbelie...
Consider this example: People tend to understand and use sarcasm from a young age. People tend to understand and use sarcasm from young age. Which one of these is grammatically correct an...
On a different board, someone referred to a computer language that had achieved popularity beyond the academic world as "used in anger", the way a shot fired in combat instead of on the practice ra...
Feb 27, 2015 · I'm just wondering if we can also use the word aging when describing someone's age as in this example: The study included participants aging 20 to 50.
I have three age groups that I want to distinguish in my research project. They are as follows: 18-45 years - I have called this group young adults 46-65 years - I have called this group adults 66...
Jun 1, 2016 · Compare: He's a man. He's a man ager. The reason for this is that with the word manager, we need to be able to squash the rest of the word in before the next stressed syllable arrives. Reducing the lengt...
Sep 29, 2011 · I am a South-Indian and I was recently confused about this usage - "angry on" vs "angry with" vs "angry at" someone. I understand that "angry with" someone is the correct usage. However I realized that ...
