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- suffixes - Is it appropriate to use ish-suffix with languages? (ex . . .
Is it appropriate to use ish-suffix for “it's sort of English but not quite”? Standard Russian order is “surname, first, patronymic”, because there is special abbreviation "ФИО" “first, patronym
- Addressing a former office-holder by that offices title
An ex-ambassador is not Ambassador Anybody However, these days, no one pays attention to such niceties, which means that everybody pretty much gets called whatever Just ask them how they wish to be addressed; that guarantees that you won't address them in a way contrary to their own preferences
- Do you capitalize both parts of a hyphenated word in a title?
Given the huge difference between how likely people are to capitalise the second component in Ex-wife compared to Co-Founder, I think choose a rule and be consistent with it is terrible advice Whichever rule you choose and stick to, you'll be swimming against the linguistic tide with much of your text!
- punctuation - Using the ex prefix on a multiple word subject . . .
"ex-school" seems awkward It looks as if he is a bus driver for ex-schools "ex" by itself (no hyphen) doesn't seem right either Is it? "ex-Fish" just sounds ridiculous Is this correct usage? Can each part be hyphenated, or the hyphen dropped altogether? Is there another way to make this more clear while still keeping the "ex" prefix?
- Using the words post facto - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
"Post facto" is almost always part of "ex post facto" "Post hoc" is currently about as common in Ngrams, but more common in Google search results In this case "after-the-fact" approval works well, too
- The difference between former, previous and last
The word former refers to state It means that the person or object was something, but no longer is The word "former" only refers to sequence in special cases where it is contrasted with the word "latter" (in which it means the first of two given items) The word previous refers to sequence It means that the person or object was did something before something else took over or replaced it
- word choice - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
What is the correct way of writing previous surname when married? E g John Johnson (former Davis) Is it correct to use 'former' or should it be 'previous' or any other word, or just '(Davis)' wit
- Whats the difference between ex- and former [closed]
Conversationally, I agree that ex-wife seems much more common that former wife In writing, though, the use of former doesn't seem so rare Here's an interesting Ngram
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