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Bookmark or Share- Difference between "at" and "in" when specifying locationIn can always be used to describe location in a country: in India, in the United States, in Japan. In is also used with cities: in Delhi, in Washington, in Tokyo, but in some contexts, at may also be found. It has long been the practice, for example, to speak of ‘Her Majesty’s Ambassador at [name of capital]’.
- slang - What is the origin of the word "wog"? - English Language ...wog c.1920, "a lower-class babu shipping clerk" [Partridge]; later World War II British armed forces slang for "native of India" (especially as a servant or laborer), possibly shortened from golliwog. Many acronym origins have been proposed, none found satisfactory.
- "Indian" comes from Italian/Spanish "gente in dios" (God-like people ..."inhabit of India or South Asia; pertaining to India," c. 1300 (noun and adjective), from Late Latin indianus, from India (see India). Applied to the aboriginal native inhabitants of the Americas from at least 1553 as a noun (1610s as an adjective), reflecting Spanish and Portuguese use, on the mistaken notion that America was the eastern end ...
- adjectives - East Coast, East coast, or east coast? - English Language ...Is it East Coast, East coast, or east coast when used in a sentence such as, "The airline flies to both the East Coast and the West Coast?"
- Is it a City, Province, State or a District? And How to Properly ...My Address as in my ID would be translated a so, first: Street number Second: My street name third: the neighborhood I live in fourth: mentioning the neighborhood either (eastern or western) So my address would be 20 Ahmed Hamdy St. Eastern Ain Shams, Cairo Is this eligible? or should I write it No 20 Ahmed Hamdy St. Eastern of Ain Shams ...
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