2017年3月25日 · The pronunciation that would be expected for "bury" if it had a completely regular spelling would actually be /bjʊəri/, because there is only one R after the U (compare fury, jury and bureau). But "bury" doesn't have a completely regular spelling. Rather, the spelling is based on weird details of its historical development.

2022年10月2日 · How did the phrase "bury one's head in the sand" meaning "to ignore a bad situation hoping it will disappear" (coming from the misbelief that ostriches do this to hide from predators) end up being part of English? At what time did the idiom and perhaps stereotype enter general knowledge among English speakers?

I am curious to find out about the etymology of the suffix -by in proper nouns such as the following: Hornby, Gatsby, Bartleby, Barlby, Selby, Osgodby, Keisby, and Hanby

2014年3月27日 · Some people write bloated books and long essays with skilful use of hooks, e.g. Jared Diamond; some others speak in long-drawn sentences with torrents of words, e.g. Noam Chomsky. It reminds me of a

2017年4月8日 · In civil engineering, the words invert and obvert are used in the context of pipe elevations. I gather that invert means: interior bottom elevation of pipe, and obvert means: interior top elevation...

2016年2月4日 · This is quite confusing! In the Standard IPA vowel chart, there are /e/ and /ɛ/. See the below picture: (Source: Wikipedia) However, many American English vowel charts don't have /e/.

It isn't so much a grammatical issue, as an historical one. To make a very long story short, between the 1300s and 1700s, English underwent a change in pronunciation called the Great Vowel Shift.

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