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Bookmark or Share- When should "Mom" and "Dad" be capitalized?When you are using the word "Dad" to refer to a specific person, it's standing in place of their name, and thus, like their name, would be capitalized. When you're talking about dads in general, it's a common noun. Say you had a horse named Betsy and were re-writing the sentence to refer to her:
- punctuation - "Oh, dear!" vs. "Oh dear!" - English Language & Usage ...Which is correct, "Oh, dear!" or "Oh dear!"? My understanding is that the word oh is an interjection, and should thus be followed by a comma. However, is the second usage the correct one because ...
- What is the origin of the phrase ‘By the by...’?Merriam-Webster's A Dictionary of the English Language (1864) notes that either by or bye (as a noun) could mean A thing not directly aimed at; something which is a secondary object of regard; an object by the way, and the like; as in on or upon the bye, in passing; indirectly; by implication. The related phrase by the bye, it reports, means in passing; by way of digression; apropos to the ...
- What is the origin of the phrase "beyond the pale"?Pale in this idiom comes from Latin pālus 'stake'; it means a fencepost, and by ordinary extension it also means the fence itselt, and the area it contains or delimits. So beyond the pale just means "outside the boundaries". Normally, of course, the "boundaries" are metaphors for human activities, rather than referring to a physically bounded location.
- 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"?
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