What's the difference between "teeter totter" and "seesaw"?
When I first read your question I thought you were asking about the difference between the three verbs teeter, totter, seesaw, all of which mean *sway unsteadily to me. – FumbleFingers Commented Aug 21, 2012 at 13:24
What is the etymology of the word teeter totter?
Seesaw and teeter totter are two names for the same piece of playground equipment. I grew up using the word teeter totter mostly, but was aware of seesaw, as it was used in books. I was wondering whether it is a regional difference or a generational difference.
abbreviations - How should I abbreviate "versus"? - English …
Contemporary usage is unitalicized ‘v.’, although there is a new tendency to use ‘vs.’ in the US press. This is exemplified by an article in the New York Daily News of May 16th, 2015, in which the headline is “Brown vs. Board of Ed. decision…” but the (modern) caption to an original 1954 photo on the same page is “Brown v.
word choice - Is it "biased towards" or "biased against"? - English ...
I don’t think “biased towards” is ambiguous... Understand the meaning of bias, just google the meaning, read both noun and verb (and carefully read google’s examples under noun and verb). From a metaphorical perspective, bias is a teeter-totter that has a push (which is against) and pull (which is toward).
"I'm well" vs. "I'm good" vs. "I'm doing well", etc
2010年8月13日 · The greeting How are you? is asking How are you doing in general? — How are you? I'm well. [Misunderstood the question.] because well as an adjective which means: in good health especially
"Why ...?" vs. "Why is it that ... ?" - English Language & Usage Stack ...
I see a subtle difference, which might be more obvious to anyone into Systems Thinking or NLP. The first has a more passive meaning, in that it implies that a cause exists for everybody's desire to help, without specifying where that cause exists.
Difference between "OK" and "okay" - English Language & Usage …
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word choice - Use of "whatever" vs "whatsoever" - English …
2012年6月7日 · Though I am a novice in this forum, I would like to take a shot at this. Dude, I have to say this is a great question, as this really touches the psychology of the English language in the context of grammatical usage vs colloquial usage. To me, whatever can be thought of as saying what ever in 2 cases. 1.
"to advocate" vs "to advocate for" - English Language & Usage …
2019年11月16日 · At first I wanted to ask this question in "ell.stackexchange.com", but then I came across the next article and understood that using "for" with "to advocate" can cause
"Lunch" vs "luncheon" - English Language & Usage Stack Exchange
Precisely. luncheon: a light meal of more formal character usually for a group of people in a public dining room (as at a club meeting or a business meeting)