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Bookmark or Share- Why are there 3 different ways to pronounce "oo"?woo-. This isn’t a useful class of words to memorize, but they’re interesting in terms of etymology. The sequence wu is uncommon in English spelling (the letter w, as its name implies, used to be written as two u’s, which makes “wu” the awkward sequence uuu ). Consider the spelling of the word “wolf” /wʊlf/
- Is there a common abbreviation for "with or without"? e.g. w/wo or w/w/oYes, in the right context it should be pretty easy to deduce. Salad dressing recipes (or any recipes) for which the ingredients may include controversial items such as anchovies, or very spicy ingredients; will often have the potentially offensive ingredients listed as optional.
- What are the words to express sobbing and crying sound?Google doesn't help much. What are the sounds (written in words) that people usually use to express their crying/sobbing emotions such as in chat, social network? For example if I say, "I am sad [
- If not now then when - a saying by Hillel the ElderI don't see anything wrong with that phrase (other than that it's a little cliché), but as an aside, I don't think too many English speakers would attribute that saying to Hillel - both because most English speakers don't know who Hillel was (or might think he's the founder of a Jewish university student organization) and because it seems unlikely that Hillel was really the first person to ...
- Origin of the phrase "That's mighty white of you..."Assessment. Hamlin Garland grew up in the U.S. Midwest, moved to Boston in 1884 at the age of 24, moved to Chicago in 1893, and traveled to the Yukon in 1898 "to witness the Klondike Gold Rush" (according to Wikipedia).
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