2011年3月1日 · The APA style of referencing, which I have most frequently used, requires that p. is used for single page references or citations (Book Title, p. 13) while for multiple pages you must cite it as (pp. 35-40). So p stands for page, pp stands for pages. I have not encountered pg to be used, but I do use it in informal note taking.

It was 4:46 PM when I wrote the comment. It was 4:46 p.m. when I wrote the comment. Of those 4 sentences, I find "It was 4:46 pm when I wrote the comment" to be the most pleasing. When I read a time, I assume that the meridiem period is going to follow. In that context I don't need 2 periods to remind me that a.m. or p.m. is an abbreviation.

2011年4月4日 · So, per Lois, an en dash, not a colon and not any other punctuation, always follows a “P.S.” She also has a 2-sentence paragraph following the above: Post-Postscripts. If a second postscript is added, it may bear the abbreviation "P-PS." or "P.P.S." meaning post-postscript. BLAHBLAHBLAH

"What does {holding nose} P.U. mean?" my son asked me tonight. I told him I didn't know, and he laughed and said "It means stinky, Mommy!" Very funny and well said, but it left me wondering. A search of Wikipedia and Etymology Online came up wanting and my etymological dictionaries are packed in boxes.

The prefix un is commonly used to negate a word, but is is quite rare with words that start with the letter p; the prefix im seems more common. For example: Impossible; Implausible; Imperfect; But there are certain p words whose opposite is prefixed …

2014年9月16日 · cup­board; rasp­ber­ry; black­guard; back­ground; post­doc; post­dat­ed check; sub­poe­na; next-door neigh­bor; last-ditch ef­fort; best dog­sit­ter; It is not al­ways the first of the two that is sup­pressed. For ex­am­ple, no­tice how in back­ground noise, it is the g that ap­pears to get lost: it sounds more like back round.

2011年5月13日 · P denotes the set of unitary polynomials. becomes. the set of unitary polynomials is denoted by P. Of course, people tend to shorten things: the form “denoted P” is actually used both in oral and writing, but is the minority according to a couple of quick Google Scholar searches: “is denoted by x” vs. “is denoted x”.

There were two p, t, and k sounds in ancient Greek. The softer (aspirated) sounds were transliterated in Latin as ph, th, and ch. Then, in Greek, all three sounds weakened; respectively they sounded like f, th (as in think), and the soft throaty sound in German ich or the x in Spanish Mexico. Neither Greek nor Latin changed the way the sounds ...

2016年11月25日 · happy (without the double p would be [hāpi] instead of [hapi]) watt (without double t would be [wat] instead of [wɒt]) As with vowels i think it will be: feet and fit are differently pronounced [fiːt] longer i and [fɪt] shorter i. Same works for teen, beetle, tree. hoop, spoon have a longer sounding u. [huːp], [spuːn].

2023年9月25日 · The suggestion that Pommy is actually a respelling of P.O.M.E., standing for the reputed term Prisoner Of Mother England, or P.O.H.M.I.E, standing for Prisoner Of Her Majesty In Exile, and other variations on this theme, are implausible on phonetic grounds and are in themselves anachronistic as acronyms were not a common feature of English in ...