word choice - What is the name of the symbols - and gt;? I know that ^ is called a caret, but this doesn't seem to apply to the similarly shaped but nonetheless different < and > symbols The only names I've heard them called is the less-than sign and the greater-than sign, but those names seem rather informal and apply only to their use in math
What is it called when you buy something for free? For example, imagine some food company decides to make their fruits permanently free Online, you can quot;order quot; them (for free), but in person, what do you do? What would be the professiona
etymology - Why is muscle cramp called a “charley horse”? - English . . . The history told me nothing why an involuntary, extremely painful spasm, is named after a horse called Charley Charley in the UK is often spelled Charlie, a diminutive of Charles, and it's also used to call a foolish or silly person Who was Charley; was it the name of a horse?
Named vs called - English Language Usage Stack Exchange Over on Stackoverflow, I keep seeing questions wherein posters say: *I have an item named SoAndSo (a table, a file, etc ) Shouldn't it be: *I have an item called SoAndSo Is "named" an accepta
word choice - What Is the Real Name of the #? - English Language . . . Called the pound sign, number sign and more recently the hashtag, it actually developed as a scribble for the abbreviation of pound in latin: lb, where lb is an abbreviation of libra, itself a shortened form of the full expression, libra pondo - literally “pound by weight” in Latin (though the Roman pound was only 12 ounces, not 16 )
What do you call words such as “the, an, a, to, and”? Welcome to EL U I think most of the contributors here would take issue with the notion that words like the or and "serve little purpose"; an evening with the Queen would probably be rather different from one with Queen — or with a queen for that matter Are you simply referring to very common words, for example, to ignore when indexing text?
Why is pineapple in English but ananas in all other languages? The European explorers who discovered pineapples were undoubtedly Spanish or Portuguese, since they are South American in origin But since they're also called piña in Spanish, this answer is probably close to correct
What is it called when someone implies something without directly . . . What is it called when someone implies something without directly saying it, so they can deny they said what they were implying Example: "Only a certain type of people put raisins in potato salad and you know who they are"