2014年8月23日 · Just a small remark: According to the English typography, the ordinal indicators are not written in superscript. In French or Spanish you do that, not in English. It's only Microsoft Word that implemented the feature years ago and since then, people think it's correct. –

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2011年6月23日 · Small can also convey such other meanings, but this is less common, IMO. In the OP example: A small typo generally means that the fix involved few character changes (e.g. Levenshtein distance). A little typo can as easily mean (a) the same thing as a small typo or (b) that the typo or the fix was not very important.

These usage stats suggest that overall, slim is somewhat preferred over small, and both are clearly preferred over low, on both sides of the pond. Further candidates range from poor to little to remote to slender to once-in-a-lifetime, but see for yourself. I will leave it as an exercise to the reader to figure out which of these does or does ...

Small and little mean literally the same thing, and refer to physical size. Therefore, there is no such thing as a small or little question, unless you’re referring to the physical length of a written question—a question which is 1 cm long as apposed to one which is 10 cm long. Both small and little in this context are grammatically incorrect.

2014年9月22日 · Prov. Small packages often contain valuable things. (Sometimes said of petite or short people.) Jill: I'm upset at George. He only gave me this tiny box for my birthday. Jane: Don't get upset till you know what's in it. Good things do come in small packages. Child: I hate being so short. Grandmother: You shouldn't. The best things come in small ...

2020年3月24日 · Small-caps variant Small caps are sometimes used to make the run of capital letters seem less jarring to the reader. For example, the style of some American publications, including the Atlantic Monthly and USA Today, is to use small caps for acronyms longer than three letters[citation needed]; thus "U.S." and "FDR" in normal caps, but "nato" in ...

It's a small car, yet/still it's surprisingly spacious; He has a good job, and yet/still he never seems to have any money; The weather was cold and wet. yet/still, we had a great time. So my question is when should I use yet and when should I use still, when using it as a conjunction, and what is the correct option for sentences above?

2016年9月6日 · What's the appropriate general word for all informal events in which a few (let's say, 3-10) friends meet at home or in a pub for a beer, dinner, coffee, card game etc., and have a conversation?

I'm looking for an idiom or saying that I could use when people are focusing too much on small details and not seeing the big picture. A couple that come to mind are "being penny-wise and pound foolish" and "rearranging deck chairs on the Titanic". However, the former doesn't fit what I'm thinking of because the present activity might not be wise.