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  1. Name for 'mmm' sound - English Language & Usage Stack Exchange

    Oct 13, 2015 · The Mmmm syllable can be several syllables, with many conventional meanings, like MMM-mmm or mmm-MMM, which can respectively be 'no' and 'yes' in many contexts. It's …

  2. meaning - How much mmmm should be in hmmmmmmm

    hmmmmmmmmm, well, I think you should do as many mmmm's as the moment takes your fancy. One day might be 3 mmm's yet another day may well be 12. It's all depending upon the …

  3. punctuation - AM/PM vs a.m./p.m. vs am/pm - English Language …

    It was 4:46 PM when I wrote the comment. It was 4:46 p.m. when I wrote the comment. Of those 4 sentences, I find "It was 4:46 pm when I wrote the comment" to be the most pleasing. When I …

  4. slang - What’s the origin/etymology of “mm-bye”? - English …

    Jul 28, 2020 · The first h-sound is simply a substitute for breath, and the second m-sound, since the mouth is closed, is symbolic of the fact that we're not quite sure what to say [Live Science] …

  5. word usage - English Language & Usage Stack Exchange

    Jul 10, 2015 · I think there is a distinction to be made, though. Units that are stuck together like kilowatt-hours are usually indicative of multiplication, that is "kilowatts x hours," since it's …

  6. What is the term for when a person repeats a phrase or word …

    Apr 19, 2023 · eg. Doctor McCoy on original Star Trek would be defined by his phrase, "Damn it, Jim. I'm a doctor, not a (insert profession or object here).." The Merriam-Webster dictionary …

  7. grammaticality - Is "my bad" a correct English phrase? - English ...

    @ thesunneversets - mmmm, and "homeless", and "tempest-tost"? It looks to me like a list of six noun phrases. And what about "lonely are the brave"? "The wild and the innocent"? "The fast …

  8. English Language & Usage Stack Exchange

    Stack Exchange Network. Stack Exchange network consists of 183 Q&A communities including Stack Overflow, the largest, most trusted online community for developers to learn, share their …

  9. What do we call the “rd” in “3ʳᵈ” and the “th” in “9ᵗʰ”?

    Aug 23, 2014 · 301 st: (three-hundred-) fir st (shouldn't that be 301 th?, I'm not going there). Of course, in general, we call all these superscripts 'ordinal indicators,' and "suffixes," 'ordinal …

  10. Should it be "mid 80s" or "mid-80s"? - English Language & Usage …

    Jan 11, 2021 · Mmmm OK, why exactly do you consider it "more correct", then? Unless you think that (a) God stipulates this kind of thing, or (b) the use of the apostrophe in a particular place is …

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