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Bookmark or Share- Why does 'coed' only mean female coeducational students?Even though logically both males and females in a co-educational environment could be called 'co-eds', only females were. At the time of adoption of this word (the late 19th c), most colleges were predominately male, and for the college to become 'co-educational' the newer students who were also much fewer in number, were the females.
- usage of "only ever" - English Language & Usage Stack ExchangeSome occurrences of 'only ever' from the period 1900–1951. The upsurge in occurrences of "only ever" is quite clearly a phenomenon of the past seventy years, as this Ngram chart for the period 1700–2019 vividly suggests: However, modern use of the expression dates to the early twentieth century at least.
- Correct position of "only" - English Language & Usage Stack ExchangeAn Ngram chart of "can only do so much" (blue line) versus "can do only so much" (red line) for the period 1850–2005 shows a rather remarkable increase in the frequency of the first expression since about 1970, a period during which the frequency of the second expression has increased only slightly:
- meaning - "If" vs "Only if" vs "If and only if" - English Language ...It is only redundant because you misinterpret it. You say it's the same as "only if". But it is not. "Only if", as you say, means "no guarantee he will yell if you fall". The first if provides just that guarantee. In other words, 3 is a combination of 1 and 2, and you simply failed to combine your correct reasoning for 1 and 2 into the correct ...
- Is there a word to describe someone who does nice things for others ...I'm looking for a word that can describe a person who does nice things for other people (e.g holding the door open, carrying someone's things) but only for self gain; this person only does nice things to make themselves look good in the eyes of others, but doesn't actually care about the well-being of the people they're helping.
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