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Bookmark or Share- What's a word for someone who does what they say?A person who does what they say they will do is a person who honors their commitments and keeps their promises. So I would describe such a person as honorable and trustworthy. If you want to go a bit exotic use mensch, which is a Yiddish term meaning a person of integrity and honor. mensch. Someone to admire and emulate, someone of noble character.
- How do they express the time, in American and British English?Example - "It is 6:30" or if you know it is 6-something you say "half past". 6:31-6:59 would normally use till. After and past could be used and understood. They just normally aren't - "40 minutes after" isn't used much. Example - "It is 6:40" or if you know it is heading towards 7 then you would say "20 till".
- Was "The 'F' Word" in common usage in the 1800s?The only way to convey the potency of their oaths is to have them use modern swear-words, even if they're anachronistic. That's the approach taken by the HBO series "Deadwood," set in a South Dakota mining camp in the 1870's.
- Can someone explain the phrase "All is fair in love and war"?For what it is worth, this last point is probably more of a causality (i.e., an unintended, natural consequence) of the individual words in the phrase than any original intended meaning. Most people probably don't immediately think of this type of behavior as matching up with the phrase until after they need an excuse for their actions.
- pronouns - *they say*, who say? who are "they"? - English Language ...They doesn't refer to something that the speaker has already mentioned, instead it means "some people". The literal meaning is "There are some people who say that we Scots are a pessimistic ..." It is implied that this is common knowledge, that the pessimistic nature of the Scots is a widely held opinion, and that the hearer will know this.
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