"We don't "say" GBP": many people do, actually, at least in contexts where one normally uses ISO codes. "British citizen" is the statutory name of citizenship of the UK, so it's not so much a choice of the government (in the sense of the particular set of ministers in place at any given time) as of parliament.
The word stat is an abbreviation of the Latin word statim, which has the meaning "instantly/immediately". This usage was then generalized beyond the domain of prescriptions to refer to any action that needed to be taken immediately.
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Can anyone explain what the difference between status and state is when I talk about the condition or situation of an object? Here's what I got from Longman English Dictionary. status: a situati...
There are no special rules for capitalizing the word "state" in ordinary, non-technical English. It should be capitalized when at the start of a sentence, or when it is part of a proper noun. The state (3) of affairs is that the State of Washington (proper noun) is a state (2) within the sovereign state (1) known as The United States of America (proper noun).
The use of -stat as a suffix usually means that it will make something come to rest, to stop, to stand still. Hemo stasis is the act of stopping bleeding. A tool to clamp a blood vessel is called a hemo stat. A bacterio stat stops bacteria from replicating, in contrast to a bacterio cide, which kills the bacteria.
They also argued that the same would have to hold true for a word like 'temp' or 'stat', if that were the case for 'mini'. The other argued that it has become a word in its own right, as it has been used for so long apart from its parent word.
What is the correct word order between have/had, been, and already in statements like the following: By the time the product was officially announced, I had already been using it. Or: By the ti...
I have before me a photo- stat copy as reproduced in the Dartmouth Free Press for March 17. Part of the daily orders reads as follows: There will be no leave until morale improves. The words "no leave until morale improves" have been underlined by the person who sent this excerpt to the Dar [t]mouth Free Press.
9 1) Please tell me why is it like that. [grammatically incorrect unless the punctuation is changed. Please tell me: Why is it like that? The question: "Why is [etc.]" is a question form in English: Why is the sky blue? Why is it that children require so much attention? Why is it [or some thing] like that?