Sep 2, 2014 · The form lil is used, but the most common variant seems to be lil' (capitalized when it is a name). Wikipedia "Lil" is a kind of prefix and is the short form of "little". It is often spelled with an …

May 1, 2014 · The crime is known as 'soliciting a murder' or 'conspiracy to commit murder'. The legal term for asking or paying someone to commit a crime is solicitation. I don't think there is a word …

Dec 25, 2025 · I’m a little confused… the question itself mentions two other rhyming binomials (hither and thither and high and dry), and comments adduce many more common ones, so how are there …

Generally, persons is a decent substitute for individuals, and appears more in legal contexts that demand precision. People is the ordinary plural of person. Asking for a table for two or a table for two …

Jul 22, 2016 · More eloquent idiom/expression for the phrase "cut it at the roots/source to prevent the problem from growing/escalating "

Jun 4, 2024 · What is the correct spelling of this word? See the discussion at (Codespell) false positive: unparseable.

Apr 21, 2017 · In "She had long black hair," I don't think commas are necessary by order of adjectives. However, with regard to commas with adjectives, I have also found that in all cases where "She had …

May 24, 2025 · I'm sure there is a good history, as it were, of the lolcats thing. "I can haz..." is something that the cats in these pictures often say. As to the strange grammar, that's the point, that kittens …

Sep 1, 2021 · The origin is still unclear as suggested by the following article and its possible origin from “mug” appears to be inconsistent: Muggins appears as a family name several times in eighteenth …

Jul 12, 2018 · Prefixes in-, im-, ir-, il- are all forms of the same thing, which to use depends on the beginning of the following word. Of course un- is different.