Nov 27, 2018 · The author of a book I'm working on insists that a ladle, a serving spoon for soup or stew, is spelled laddle. A quick Google search pulled results of ladle, but most shopping …

Jul 30, 2022 · 1 From ladle to ladle, From verb to verb It was verbing/verbification when it was verbed/verbified. The noun ladle was verbed to the verb ladle long time ago, as early as 1525 …

Words that in Modern English are written ending with -le derive from words ending in -el, -el- or are related with such words. candle Old English candel cattle Anglo-Norman catel ladle Old …

Aug 16, 2018 · There are some really good options available in this question here: replacement-for-this-means-that on english.stackexchange Taking a look through the whole site here might …

Sep 30, 2013 · I have brought you a ladle. —Marlowe's Jew of Malta, III. 4. Marry, he must have a long spoon that must eat with the devil. — [Shakespeare's] Comedy of Errors, IV. 3. >This is a …

Sep 15, 2012 · There is a book titled Off to a Flying Start: Horsing Around the Language. What does off to mean? I did some research on it and I feel it means going to do, but I still need your …

Oct 13, 2015 · There are no special rules for capitalizing the word "state" in ordinary, non-technical English. It should be capitalized when at the start of a sentence, or when it is part of …

Which one would be correct? I wish it weren't raining today. I wish it wasn't raining today. I wish it were raining today. I wish it was raining today.

Apr 9, 2020 · Any more than is a special idiomatic construction that occurs only in negative contexts. Without the not in don't want (however you say or spell it), *I want to do it any …

Aug 6, 2014 · Do so and do it have complex but rather different syntax, as it turns out. There's a famous paper by Lakoff and Ross called, if memory serves, "A criterion for verb phrase …