A frequent hedge is arr, but the variations yar, yarr, and yargh are also quite common. Is there a distinction in meaning between arr and the yar variants, or are these simply different spellings of the same exclamation? For instance, is yar a contraction of yes and arr, therefore implying an affirmation or agreement?

For the word 'year' to be preceded by 'an' it must sound like it's beginning with a vowel. The reason why it is a tad tricky is because of the difference in the way people pronounce it.

2015年2月1日 · It would come much more naturally to a native speaker to say not "That man is a 50-year-old" [note also the hyphenation here] but "That is a 50-year-old man"; similarly, not "That kid is a one-and-a-half-year-old today" [a construction I have never heard anyone use when referring to half years as part of someone's age], but "That is a one-and-a-half-year-old kid" (omitting the 'today'), or ...

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From the Oxford Corpus of English:. PER ANNUM. For 30 years, it had gone remorselessly ahead, at about 80% per annum.

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2017年9月15日 · Quarters divide years by four. I am looking for the terms dividing years by 2, 3 and 6. Does there exists terms to express other parts of the years like quarters?

2011年3月13日 · E.g. is short for exempli gratia, and is in common use to introduce an example within a sentence. Submit a sample of academic writing, e.g., a dissertation chapter. However, some authors use ex. ...

2015年5月7日 · Instances of the wording 'before Christ' A Google Books search finds instances of "[year] before Christ" from as early as John Higgins, The Mirour for Magistrates: Wherein may bee seene, by examples passed in this Realme with how greeuous plagues vices are punished in great Princes and Magistrates (1575/1587).

2014年12月28日 · @tchrist "year-old" is a compound. "fifteen–year-old" is a compound created not by combining the words fifteen, year and old with each other on an equal footing (like "vis-a-vis") where one uses hyphens or where one is a prefix (like "non-English-speaking") where one generally uses hyphens but with one part is already a compound and hence some styles favour the dash to keep the compound ...