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Bookmark or Share- Words for ordinal 5-point scale from normal to severeIn my opinion, it is fine. Also, if you make a quick Google search about "mild, moderate and severe", you will find many examples of them used to describe different degrees of severity when talking about diseases. I would say that, by adding "normal" and "extreme", you are just adding two additional levels, one at each end of the scale.
- hyphenation - English Language & Usage Stack ExchangeIn English, there are three types of compound words:. the closed form, in which the words are melded together, such as firefly, secondhand, softball, childlike ...
- What is the etymology of the idiom "To stink/smell to high heaven?"High Heavens is situated at 'end of the line' when the new railroad was finally completed so someone commenting on the stench from the Tanners yards in West London at the time might well have coined the expression "to High Heavens," the town, rather than the ethereal realm.
- What do we call the “rd” in “3ʳᵈ” and the “th” in “9ᵗʰ”?However, as in the second and third examples, the rd & st simply come from the right-end of the word for the ordinal number: 3 rd: thi rd. 301 st: (three-hundred-) fir st (shouldn't that be 301 th?, I'm not going there).
- etymology - Origin of "the wrong end of the stick" - English Language ...If you get the wrong end of the stick, you are the recipient of the blows from the lucky master who holds the right end. To say that you get the wrong end of the stick simply implies misunderstanding or wrong facts. To say that you have the short (or dirty) end of the stick is to have the least desirable part of a bargain or the worst end of a ...
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