Improve your bloody grammar!
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Holding forth has specific negative connotations. https://www.macmillandictionary.com/dictionary/british/hold-forth
Googling is cheating!
It's still a good example of how holding something is an idiom for speech in the UK, which was my point there.
I googled it for @Adorno as I know how it's used in my home country. I agree its an example of holding out beyond everyone else's patience.
Hold my dictionary!I googled it for @Adorno as I know how it's used in my home country. I agree its an example of holding out beyond everyone else's patience.
Obviously holding something means engaging in something in several such phrases. You can hold talks, negotiations, an audience, and a fort.
True.
hold | Etymology of hold by etymonline
"to contain; to grasp; to retain (liquid, etc.); to observe, fulfill (a custom, etc.); to… See origin and meaning of hold.
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I think both are okay. It becomes somewhat clearer when you replace "a" with "one", which I assume is the equivalent.
"Many things can be inserted into an anus." is probably just as fine as "Many a thing can be inserted into an anus."
The latter is more precise though, because it specifies that each thing on its own can be inserted into an anus, while the first one may mean that only many things together can be inserted into an anus at once, which can lead to terrible accidents.
"Many things can be inserted into an anus." is probably just as fine as "Many a thing can be inserted into an anus."
The latter is more precise though, because it specifies that each thing on its own can be inserted into an anus, while the first one may mean that only many things together can be inserted into an anus at once, which can lead to terrible accidents.
Those are okay. The possibly difference (and I'm NOT an expert, just chatty) is that the "many good men died" can be a bit more ambiguous than "many a good man died", but practically have the same meaning. It seems that "many a good man died" is a bit more rhetorically pleasing phrasing if you are into showing off.
Let's see what the natives and the experts think.
Not always, and it's kind of poetic / archaic. You would never say it out loud unless you want to sound pretentious, and outside of fiction it comes across as a waste of ink.
Is the spelling alright, instead of all right, considered correct, or is it slang?
Should it be avoided in formal writing, but okay to use in conversational texts?
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Should it be avoided in formal writing, but okay to use in conversational texts?
In Itsaso Arana’s Directorial Debut ‘Girls Are Alright,’ Actresses Take Over the Film
Spanish actress and Jonás Trueba’s regular collaborator Itsaso Arana makes her directorial debut with Karlovy Vary premiere ‘Girls Are Alright.’
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Either are alright IMO.Is the spelling alright, instead of all right, considered correct, or is it slang?
Should it be avoided in formal writing, but okay to use in conversational texts?
In Itsaso Arana’s Directorial Debut ‘Girls Are Alright,’ Actresses Take Over the Film
Spanish actress and Jonás Trueba’s regular collaborator Itsaso Arana makes her directorial debut with Karlovy Vary premiere ‘Girls Are Alright.’
Alright or All Right—What’s the Difference?
Although actor Matthew McConaughey’s cornerstone catchphrase “All right, all right, all right” is a widely accepted part of pop…
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Alright, thanks.
I'm guessing before long there's only the alright spelling.
Just like there's no "well come", only welcome. In alright the second L is also omitted.
I'm guessing before long there's only the alright spelling.
Just like there's no "well come", only welcome. In alright the second L is also omitted.
Probably, but some sticklers hold out for dead usages and dead languages, denying evolution.
It seems informal to me but I dont think there are any contexts you could really use alright *or* all right in formal text. It's like "I have" and "I've got" which, in anglo-english at least, are exclusively for text and speech respectively for phonetic reasons, despite no official prohibition one way or the other.
"The passengers on the mini submarine seemed to be all right after the explosive decompression" is formal enough.
