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Bookmark or Share- on site / at site | WordReference ForumsDec 13, 2010. #3. For all the examples, you either say "on site" or "at the site." For the purposes you listed, they are interchangeable. The only time I can think of where you would use "at the site" and not "on site" is if you were going to be more specific about the site later in the sentence. For example, "I am at the site of the accident."
- headquarters & head office - WordReference ForumsJun 8, 2006. #7. Headquarters would most likely be plural when the word is used to refer to the people. For example, if the important people from headquarters were coming to inspect the troops in some outpost somewhere, it would be "HQ (Headquarters) are coming on Thursday at noon," or similar. I should add that this is a very uncommon usage in ...
- 'headquarters is' vs 'headquarters are' - WordReference ForumsSenior Member. British English. Feb 16, 2014. #3. Depends whether "headquarters" is singular or plural. If you're talking about the headquarters of one company (singular) for example, you would say: The headquarters of Company X is in Location Z. If it's 2 or more companies (plural) then: The headquarters of Companies X and Y are in Location Z.
- dar la chapa/vara/lata | WordReference ForumsAs well, beware that in Spain "chapa" is used coloquially to referr to the occupation of male-to-male young prostitution as in "hacerse una chapa". Young male prostituted ones are "chaperos". Dar la chapa: to be annoying and all the others already mentioned before. Hacer una chapa: to wank.
- traffic light or traffic lights | WordReference ForumsKeith Bradford said: The traffic light is either a single lamp, or more rarely a set of three (red, amber, green) on one post. Most Americans, like Hitchhiker, would use "traffic light" to mean a triple light, so that use is much more common due to the relative quantities of single and triple lights.. And, of course, the word traffic is ...
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