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What is the correct abbreviation of engineer? In my organization, some of my colleagues use Eng. and some use Engr.
3 Mostly because -eng, -enk didn’t survive Middle English We don’t have native words in -eng, -enk because of a regular sound-change that any such words underwent in their evolution from Old English to Middle English to Modern English. For example, Old English had a verb lengen meaning to lengthen (transitively) or to linger (intransitively).
playing A guitar - is wrong, but why? how does it sound to an Eng.speaker?
A.xxii) in R. Morris Old Eng. Homilies (1868) 1st Ser. 223 He com þa anedren hiwe toðam twam mannum, erest toðan wife. But the usage of "man" and "men" to refer to a generic human or humans in general, irrespective of gender, continued well into the 20th century.
1966 G. W. Turner Eng. Lang. in Austral. & N.Z. vi. 135 A different influence of written language is seen in the use of same as a pronoun equivalent to it, as in ‘put the tailboard up and secure same with a length of wire’ from New Zealand (Wally Crump, 1964), a facetious borrowing of lawyer's English which is quite common.
I remember being told that "teh" (a common misspelling of "the") is actually a proper (though very old and no longer in common usage) English word. Teh was used as an example that if every single