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The Italian words that only exist in the plural: the defective nouns from holidays to weddings and surrounding areas

Wedding, holidays, dishes, darkness, surroundings: they are the so-called plurality once (“only plural”), or defective nouns, ...

On ‘less’ vs ‘fewer’: the grammar pedants have got it wrong

Nothing gets a pedant’s blood boiling more than the apparent distinction between “less” and “fewer”. Queuing in a supermarket ...
Greek Reporter

The Unique Eccentricities of the Modern Greek Language

The Modern Greek language has some aspects that would totally baffle a native English speaker for various reasons.

Miss Manners: You might not want to yell ‘folk!’ in a crowded cafe

Some months ago, you asked your readers for a way of addressing strangers whose gender is not obvious, but I have not seen ...

Miss Manners: Have we found the words to replace ‘sir’ and ‘ma’am’?

Some months ago, you asked your readers for a way of addressing strangers whose gender is not obvious, but I have not seen the answer. We need it, so as to keep from insulting unknown people when we ...
BBC

Grammar Reference

However, there are many types of nouns and noun phrases in English, and it can be difficult to know if a particular noun takes a singular verb (such as DOES / HAS / AM / IS ) or a plural verb (DO / ...
Smithsonian Magazine

How Does a Bilingual Speaker’s Brain Process Two Languages? New Research Suggests That Both Rely on the Same Neural Wiring

The new work contributes to a broader shift in bilingualism research, which is moving toward the view that grammar is supported by a shared, flexible brain mechanism that operates across all languages ...

Miss Manners: I need a gender-neutral way to get a stranger’s attention

Some months ago, you asked your readers for a way of addressing strangers whose gender is not obvious, but I have not seen ...
Tech Times on MSN

AI feature labels from geometry, not text: Tsinghua posts SAEVerbalizer preprint

Sparse autoencoder feature labeling is AI interpretability's scaling bottleneck. Tsinghua University researchers posted ...

Miss Manners: Still in search for a perfect gender-neutral greeting

“Cer” was suggested by a Gentle Reader as “a neutral derivation of ‘Ser,’ a Latin contraction of ‘Senhor,’ having been assured by a daughter that it is used in science fiction — and if it is good ...
Tribune Content Agency on MSN

'Hey, peep! Peer! Noble! Human! Your grace!'

DEAR MISS MANNERS: Some months ago, you asked your readers for a way of addressing strangers whose gender is not obvious, but I have not seen the answer. We need it, so as to keep from insulting ...
BBC

Grammar, spelling and punctuation

Trudeau, who has been prime minister since 2015... Any post mentioned without reference to the post-holder should be in lower case - e.g. The prime minister will be out of the country for several days ...