2011年5月26日 · According to Wikipedia : Zzz or zzzz is used in writing to represent the act of sleeping. It is used because human snoring often sounds like the pronunciation of the letter.

In old cartoons and even now in other such media, often the letters 'zzz' are used to indicate that a person is sleeping. What is the origin of this? It seems that the sound that someone makes when they are snoring isn't zzz at all, but rather, as a friend put it, a series of rolling rrrrrs.

What is the most common or correct spelling of "zzzzz"? (1) zzzzz (5 letters) (2) zzzz (4 letters) (3) zzz (3 letters) My question stems from when I first wrote it as "zzzzz" (5 letters) in an English text, but a friend told me it should have been written as "zzzz" (4 letters) so I decided to ask here.

2014年1月23日 · I think it is a good question. When there is yesterday morning and tomorrow morning, why have an exception for this morning (which means today's morning)? Yes, idiom, but I actually do like idiomatic extensions like these - as long as everybody knows what is meant and no grammar or semantic rules are violated...

2014年12月13日 · "I have already seen that movie" does not necessarily mean you watched it many times on separate occasions. It never has meant this. This is incorrect.

The word sleeping is sometimes used to refer to being in bed and going to sleep without concern for whether the person has actually fallen asleep yet. So if somebody called for someone, and I knew they were in bed, I'd be much more likely to say "they're sleeping" than "they're asleep".

2016年2月18日 · The word ending spelled apostrophe "s" is a phonemic /z/ in all the instances I can think of. (But English spelling is not very regular, so there could be exceptions.) However, English has a morphophonemic rule that converts a voiced obstruent (e.g. /z/) to the corresponding voiceless phoneme (for /z/ that would be /s/) when the /z/ is immediately …

2015年6月4日 · The original word cuckold was derived from "cuckoo", the bird that lays its eggs in other birds' nests so that they raise the hatchlings as their own. A cuckold (man) could end up in the position of unwittingly raising another man's children as his own. Since that would never unknowingly happen to a woman, there is no female equivalent of the word cuckold.

2018年5月18日 · I've always been told that verbs can show action and state of being . Can anyone of you folks tell me what a state of being is ?

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