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Bookmark or Share- a better way to express "an idea/thought suddenly came to me"What are some grandiloquent, or simply better, ways of expressing "an idea/thought suddenly came to me", or "an idea/thought struck me", or "I was struck by an idea/thought"?
- "Can/may/will you help me with this?"Yes: "May" contrasts with "Can" in the first person, and generations of children have been told off for saying "Can I" when grown-ups held that they should have been saying "May I". But in the second person, "May you" is very unusual.
- Is grownup, grown up, or grown-up the correct usage (as a noun)?Grown-up is the proper noun and adjective form. Grown up is the past participle of to grow up. Grownup is a frequently used form, but more dictionaries prefer grown-up. In fact, if you google grownup definition it returns a definition for grown-up. One source of many
- Are the words "sillily", "uglily", "friendlily", "livelily", etc ...I'm sorry, but who cares about popularity contests? That does not decide whether something has been used in English, or is well formed. Just because there is currently a politically charged taboo against the U-word being spoken in front of grown-ups amongst the immigrant preteens temporarily housed on the Isle of Man does not matter at all.
- Do you capitalize both parts of a hyphenated word in a title?Capitalization of hyphenated words in general is really more a question of style than anything else. In other word, choose a rule and be consistent with it:
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