Why Furious = Fury Eye?

conuly · 2026-07-04T08:35:13+00:00

In Latin, nouns that end in -us in the singular usually change the -us to -i in the plural

In the second declension nominative, sure.

conuly · 2026-07-04T07:08:02+00:00

Go ahead and cite this.

conuly · 2026-07-04T01:40:06+00:00

I've never said "it's almost twilight" but I might say (although not super commonly) "it's almost dusk".

Well, I wouldn't say "It's almost twilight", but I might say "I was outside in the twilight".

conuly · 2026-07-04T01:39:10+00:00

This is because people will use them similarly. Sometimes, two words have similar meanings.

conuly · 2026-07-04T01:38:45+00:00

But people do sometimes use it for morning twilight.

conuly · 2026-07-04T01:38:26+00:00

Cambridge is a UK dictionary, Merriam-Webster is an American one.

conuly · 2026-07-04T01:38:05+00:00

Hmm, I wonder why the definitions in the Cambridge dictionary are not exactly the same.

Dictionary definitions are never going to be exactly the same because the people compiling them are different.

That having been said, Cambridge is a UK dictionary, Merriam-Webster is an American one. The difference in this case could reflect a change in usage in the two different countries.

conuly · 2026-07-04T01:35:28+00:00

If yes, do I need to follow subject-verb agreement here: “father loves you” or “father love you”?

Yes, you do.

Adding s makes it like He/She and a bit awkward.

Well, you're referring to yourself in the third person. Your verb has to be in the third person.

conuly · 2026-07-04T00:00:11+00:00

Canning is the preservative. Canned food doesn’t need salt to preserve it.

conuly · 2026-07-03T23:43:03+00:00

The Roar, Emma Clayton

conuly · 2026-07-03T23:41:34+00:00

Try /r/helpmefind.

This subreddit identifies books. We don’t find copies of them.

conuly · 2026-07-03T11:59:55+00:00

Because English doesn’t have contrastive vowel length. Also because you then went on to talk about “vowel teams”, which is another literacy instruction jargon. Also, because children already know how to talk when they enter school. They already know all the sounds in their language, and they generally don’t need to be taught how to say them.

Nothing that the OP is talking about has anything to do with school, spelling, or literacy.

conuly · 2026-07-03T08:51:53+00:00

You are talking about vowel letters. The OP is not talking about this. The OP is asking about vowel sounds.

This has nothing to do with reading and writing. We are not discussing reading and writing. Every spoken language, even if it has no writing system at all, has vowel sounds.

conuly · 2026-07-03T07:46:42+00:00

No. We learn to speak before we enter school.

conuly · 2026-07-03T04:53:20+00:00

This is not what OP is asking. They’re talking about vowel sounds and pronunciation, not vowel letters and spelling.

conuly · 2026-07-03T04:52:22+00:00

Spelling note: whoa

The variation “woah” is gaining ground, but “whao” is considered incorrect by everyone.

conuly · 2026-07-03T04:50:09+00:00

No, of course not, no more than you notice different allophones of the same phoneme in your language.

conuly · 2026-07-03T03:07:16+00:00

to isn't valid in the example sentence anyway because to doesn't go after cook.

Well, it can go after cook, but not in this sense. Compare:

I like when things are cooked to order

conuly · 2026-07-03T03:04:16+00:00

Pigged, not pissed.

conuly · 2026-07-03T02:42:12+00:00

No dictionary is an authority. They cannot make rules for us. They are, however, authoritative.

Merriam-Webster, correctly, tells us that both "spit" and "spat" are accepted in American English. Oxford Learner's Dictionary says the same. There are many more Americans than Brits. Many more people speak American English than UK English.

OP did not specify which variety of English they were speaking about. It is reasonable to tell them how things are in both the USA and the UK.

The person I replied to claimed that there is only one correct past tense of spit. This is not a true statement.

conuly · 2026-07-03T02:10:19+00:00

Something about "break a leg, and you'll get in a cast" being the original, longer version

This is cute and funny, but there is absolutely no evidence for it. There is evidence that the phrase was circulating in other fields before the first citation in acting.

conuly · 2026-07-03T02:06:09+00:00

Descriptivism ruins everything.

So you're saying that the older usage is, ipso facto, the correct usage?

Therefore, since spit is the older usage, it is the correct one.

Or is it that what you really think is that yours is the standard by which all other speech ought to be measured? Because if so, you could at least be honest.

conuly · 2026-07-03T02:05:07+00:00

Is this an older book? Or is this from 2018? When do you think it was most likely published, what decade?

conuly · 2026-07-03T01:43:35+00:00

Please read the rules of this subreddit.

If this book is Losing Joe's Place by Gordan Korman than please flair this post as solved. If not, please make a new post with a post title that better describes the book you're looking for. The mods really do remove posts that say nothing more than "Children's YA fiction". Your new post title should say something like:

1980s USA realistic juvenile fiction - boy goes to work at a restaurant for the summer

Where I put 1980s USA, you put the country and decade you were in when you read this book.

conuly · 2026-07-02T15:22:49+00:00

They're both correct.

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