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Bookmark or Share- "one of A and B" or "one of A or B"? - English Language & Usage Stack ...If your answer to the question is “(one of) A or B and/but only one”, then you should say so in your answer — but I believe that you can’t treat “one of” as a parenthetical. As in my example, “One of the team will be promoted to team leader.”, you can’t just omit “One of” and say “the team will be promoted to team leader.”
- "One-to-one" vs. "one-on-one" - English Language & Usage Stack ExchangeYou may use one-to-one when you can identify a source and a destination. For eg., a one-to-one email is one sent from a single person to another, i.e., no ccs or bccs. In maths, a one-to-one mapping maps one element of a set to a unique element in a target set. One-on-one is the correct adjective in your example
- pronunciation - Why is "one" pronounced as "wan", not "oh-ne ...one and once are pronounced differently from the related words alone, only and atone. Stressed vowels often become diphthongs over time (Latin bona → Italian buona and Spanish buena ), and this happened in the late Middle Ages to the words one and once , first recorded ca 1400: the vowel underwent some changes, from ōn → ōōōn → wōn ...
- "None of us is" vs "None of us are", Which is Correct?One respondent here wrote "But the accepted etymology of 'none' corresponds to 'not one', which is therefore not singular." It seems this writer wants to interpret "not one" to mean that if something is "not one" the number must be "more than one" (justifying him saying "therefore not singular"). I disagree:
- Does "but one" mean "only one" or "except one"? [duplicate]Normally the NP is quantified (e.g, one/thirteen/a few of them). However, if the phrase is all but NP, then it means 'all except one/thirteen/a few of them'. Make sure you know which idiom you're talking about. There are a lot of them, and some have more words than others. –
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