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Some usages identified as American English are common in British English; e.g., disk for disc. A few listed words are more different words than different spellings: "aeroplane/airplane", "mum/mom". See also: American and British English differences, Wikipedia:List of common misspellings and Wikipedia:Manual of Style#National varieties of English
Choice architecture is the process of encouraging people to make good choices through grouping and ordering the decisions in a way that maximizes successful choices and minimizes the number of people who become so overwhelmed by complexity that they abandon the attempt to choose. Generally, success is improved by presenting the smaller or ...
Most of the pairs listed below are closely related: for example, "absent" as a noun meaning "missing", and as a verb meaning "to make oneself missing". There are also many cases in which homographs are of an entirely separate origin, or whose meanings have diverged to the point that present-day speakers have little historical understanding: for ...
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Good morning! There’s a new phrase permeating the anti-DEI spaces online. “MEI,” an acronym for “merit, excellence, and intelligence” was coined earlier this month by Alexandr Wang ...
The variants that change '-æ' or '-ae' to '-s' are not variants in spelling, but the same meaning of the word with a different way of forming plurals. ^ "caesium" (see article) is preferred by the IUPAC. Also, ligatures may be used in personal names as well, i.e. Maecenus as Mæcenus etc.
Two people have been charged with murder and fraud after the death of a 71-year-old woman. Chelsea Grant, 27, and Xyaire Howard, 22, were arrested after Susan Hawkey’s body was found by ...
"Eeny, meeny, miny, moe" – which can be spelled a number of ways – is a children's counting-out rhyme, used to select a person in games such as tag, or for selecting various other things. It is one of a large group of similar rhymes in which the child who is pointed to by the chanter on the last syllable is chosen.