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Asked on March 12, 2021 in Single word requests.
Do all twelve months of one page calendars work? One website calls it a yearly calendar, whereas a calendar divided into months is called a monthly calendar. The official dates are 13, 15, and 24 of 2019 and have been revised. There is also a 3 years calendar. I just double checked and Google retrieves 494,000 results for “yearly calendar”.
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Asked on March 12, 2021 in Single word requests.
Do all twelve months of one page calendars work? One website calls it a yearly calendar, whereas a calendar divided into months is called a monthly calendar. The official dates are 13, 15, and 24 of 2019 and have been revised. There is also a 3 years calendar. I just double checked and Google retrieves 494,000 results for “yearly calendar”.
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Asked on March 12, 2021 in Single word requests.
Do all twelve months of one page calendars work? One website calls it a yearly calendar, whereas a calendar divided into months is called a monthly calendar. The official dates are 13, 15, and 24 of 2019 and have been revised. There is also a 3 years calendar. I just double checked and Google retrieves 494,000 results for “yearly calendar”.
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Asked on March 11, 2021 in Other.
What used to be the homely advice close one’s eyes and think of England as a first time UK virgins went for their first sex exchange on the eve of their
wedding night?
At least that is the sentiment behind a biting your lower lip, don’t think about what is happening (shudder), just endure it until the act is over. Unfortunately, it’s not the single word requested by the OP but most native people would understand its meaning,
Wiktionary says
Supposedly advice given to women whose husbands were soon to attempt to have sexual intercourse with them, encouraging them to think about how beneficial children were to England.
TV Tropes lucidates
It’s possible the phrase was invented as a joke on the assumption that Victorian and Edwardian ladies were prudish in the extreme. After life began, a girl of a high class was told that a strange woman had to marry a man whose interest she denied but would now have to remain single. She had significant societal problems going through her life and their death, and she would be left alone at the end of her life. What would have been the best way of thinking of England under the circumstances?
In The Phrase Finder, the person who uses the phrase ‘Lie back and think of England’ has been
attributed to Queen Victoria. He or she has said many times that it is ‘close your eyes and think of England’. As in advice given by mother to her daughter on her wedding night. Historically, there was, or later dramas have portrayed that it was, advice given by a mother to her daughter. In the early 20th century, sex education was not all that it might have been.
In other contexts, the advise is of advice given by a female friend to a loveless wife.” Marriage was a route to economic security for women in Edwardian England but many must have seen the granting of sexual favours as an unwelcome price to pay for it.
How were the photos of the Queen Victoria embrassing
her husband?In the OP’s sample sentence, it wouldn’t sound out of place.
“I often thought about what I felt. If possible to describe England, it would be close one’s eyes and think of England but essentially I made love to him not because I enjoyed it, quite the contrary, I did it because I cared about him and wanted him to have a good time even though I didn’t like it. ”
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Asked on March 11, 2021 in Single word requests.
What are the most used terms in Ngrams of Google Books: the scent and the smell seem to have the most popularity.
In order to determine how neutral these terms were I selected the following criteria.
- smell of *
- scent of “smiles
- of the* smells great
- smells bad). “The
- asterisk representing
- any term
that follows the last term which Google Books has a record of”
Context of verb smell
(in English): How is the verb better than bad? However, if one notes the different terms used with smell of ; smoke, death, burning, and blood along with fresh, the sea,the earth, etc., the smell is similar. That both unpleasant and pleasant odours are collocated with smell is clearly clear. Whereas (as opposed to) noun scent tends towards positive collocations such as: roses, pine, fresh, the sea, jasmine, the plants, algivity (see further). The fragrance tends towards positive collocations such as: rosa, the daisies, jasmine, and the flowers which are flower scents.
How could the OP’s decision of choosing scent for her proposal be a sensible decision.
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Asked on March 10, 2021 in Meaning.
I wouldn’t say the idiom, good-for-a-giggle is derogatory. Though its construction may resemble good for nothing, its meaning is very distant from that.
Instead “good for a joke is undoubtedly related
- to the following for a lark : for a joke; as something
- done for fun for a laugh : for
fun and amusement The expression suggests a person who is able to see the funny side of a situation, someone willing to share a joke of the “mild” sort, not one that would seriously hurt or offend anyone. The governor of Ohio may be gullible, but he is kind and considerate.
Substituting “laugh” with “giggle” is probably for alliterative purposes, so an alternative interpretation is that playing practical jokes (pranks) or tricks on him was enjoyable, i.e. playing football, etc. Good for giggles.
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Asked on March 9, 2021 in Single word requests.
My “best friend”, “BFF”, “closest friend (dearest) friend”, or my “blood
brother” FF. If
this means a person’s best friend, your best
friend may be blood brother. Or two or moremen not
related by birth who have sworn loyalty to each other. This in modern times is usually done in a ceremony, known as oath, where having each person make a small cut.Usually on a finger, hand, or the forearm. Then the two cuts are pressed together and bound, the idea being that each person’s blood now flows in the other person’s veins. In modern times, some gangs have also been rumored to make blood pacts.
In terms of English terms, see the Cambridge Dictionary.
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Asked on March 7, 2021 in Meaning.
- Travel (n): uncountable’ ) and travelling are used to mean the general activity of moving from place to place. Is that correct? When we use it as a verb, we talk about how we travel to work; abroad; school, etc. When we use it as a verb, it also indicates what we know and why. And we might mention the means of transport, e.g. Why don’t children travel by bus to school? As a noun, travel is often collocated with holidays. If we say, “I love travelling” or “He had fond memories of his travels to India’, in those cases it is not interchangeable with journey “. Why
we chose to travel by car (our driver is a taxi driver)? I travelled through France and into Germany.
How much did you spend travelling on my college trips? Source-
trip, n. may be used for going out somewhere; it could be taking a short vacation, travelling some distance for business purposes, and staying in a hotel overnight; very often it is a short journey away. A business trip ; a weekend trip ; a day trip, and a school trip. We often say.. a business trip, a weekend trip, a college trip. We often say: a business trip, a weekend trip, and a school trip. But you can also take a long (plane/road/boat) trip’to somewhere else.
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Journey, n. usually a long trip of some kind; it can be any kind of trip, but the implication is that it may be arduous and discoveries might be made along the way. Your journey to work in your car can be incredibly long or wrought with delays such as roadworks, heavy traffic, etc. As a commuter, you can talk about this.
The trio has been in Oman for the last two weeks preparing for the journey.
As we set off on time we were warned that the train would be late into Liverpool Street – the estimate was 30 minutes.. What is the effect of signal failure and points failure when the connection has been delayed by two incidents? Just after 11pm, we got to London? What is the longest journey in time? I
don’t think the source is valid source would be well or not.
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Asked on March 7, 2021 in Grammar.
Can Moors fly up and out of something but the real annoyance is they can bite.
What are some of the uses for the simple future ( will
) to predict future events for future predictability and warnings?
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Asked on March 6, 2021 in Word choice.
The term memory is both a countable and uncountable number. (Rachel & O’Neill, 2002).
When we speak about one’s capacity to retain information we can speak about having a memory
for something. And if you are not, what can you do? The OD provides these examples of usageI’ve a great memory for faces
She still has a great memory for all the old Irish songs and poems. I need it!We can have one or more memories of the past
( sing ) What happened during that week was just a bad memory in the past
( pl ) I have no recollection of my past memories, except periodic flashbacks of my previous life.The noun memory is singular when it means “mind”. How is it taken out of the plural?
Williams searched his memory, trying to remember what he did in this situation eleven years ago.
As a mass noun we are remembering or honouring the life of dead person. At first sight there is a lot of something on the body by that instant but now we have a higher priority. This can be a good reason to remember the life of someone.
A candlelit vigil took place in Huyton last night, one week after the alleged assault, to honour the deceased teenager’s memory
and when we speaking about a certain length of time
After one of the most hectic holiday season in recent memory, many of us have settled in for equally hectic work schedules.
If we were talking about our childhood and we retold delightful stories about the past the listener might say
- To you what lovely memories you have had?
What can be shortened to
- What memories?
If we were talking about a single incident that happened over fifty years ago, when we were three years old then I would not be going so far as to blame you. Let me explain it. Uninterrupted admiration is created.
- What a great memory you have?
- What an impressive and rich memory!
Is there a way to make reference to a memory or to an actual recollection of something that happened so long
ago?
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