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When "Why" is used as an exclamation, it would normally be followed by a comma instead of an exclamation mark, it's an interjection used to express surprise, disagreement, indignation, hesitation, impatience etc:  //Why, don't be silly! (Collins) //Why, here's what I was looking for! (Merriam Webster) In J. B Priestley's An Inspector Calls, when Arthur Birling talked about the greatest technological progress of the time such as airplanes, automobiles, and ships, he said: And then ships. Why , a friend of mine went over this new liner last week – the titanic – she sails next week – forty-six thousand eight hundred tons – new york in five days – and every luxury – and unsinkable, absolutely unsinkable.  He use "Why" to express surprise. Arthur was born into a humble background and became a prosperous manufacturer, he was pompous but rather " provincial " in his speech. 

"PEMDAS" - parentheses, exponents, multiplication, division, addition, subtraction, is the "order of operation" in a single math expression.

"Appendices" is a section giving extra details at the end of a book, part of a book, or document, In this sense, the plural form of appendix is appendices. “Appendixes” is the plural form of the now functionless part of the large intestine causing people to be rushed into hospital for its removal.

The British English spellings are often related to their French and Greek spelling, while American spellings often reflect the Latin. 1. ae/e, oe/o, ou/o, iu/u aetiology / etiology anaemic / anemic anaesthetic / anesthetic caesium / cesium faeces / feces foetus/foetal fetus/fetal haemo- / hemo- oedema edema mould mold aluminium aluminum 2. gue/g analogue / analog catalogue / catalog dialogue / dialog 3. se/ze, ce/se analyse / analyze catalyse / catalyze dialyse / dialyze electrolyse / electrolyze hydrolyse /hydrolyze paralyse /paralyze defence defense 4.our/or behaviour / behavior colour / color favour / favor harbour / harbor labour (laborious) / labor (laborious) neighbour / neighbor odour / odor tumour . tumor 5. re/er centre, centred / center, centered fibre / fiber litre / liter metre (100 cm) / meter meter (measuring device) / meter 6. l/ll channelled, channelling / channeled, channeling fulfil / fulfill labelling, labelled / label...

 if you’re from the UK you would write a Master’s dissertation and a Doctoral thesis. If, on the other hand, you lived in the USA, you would write a Master’s thesis and a Doctoral dissertation. If you’re writing your doctoral thesis in British English, call it a thesis; if you’re using American English, call it a doctoral dissertation.

Spandex or elastane is called Lycra in Uk, US, Canada, Holland, and Brazil, Neolon in Japan, Dorlastan in German, Anlun (氨纶) in Mainland China. Spandex is a synthetic fiber known for its exceptional elasticity. It is stronger and more durable than natural rubber. It was first discovered by Bayer Company in German, and mass-produced by DuPont in America 1959.

There is only one spelling for panic ; the verb is inflected 'panic, panics, panicked, and panicking’. The form panick is used for progressive tense, past tense and past participle. We don't write panick today, though English speakers from a few hundred years ago might have (in the same way they might have written musick). When the alternate spelling “panick” is used for the past participle: "I panicked last night at the disco." When it’s use for progressive tense: “Invariably, when markets are panicking, they sell the stocks quickly.” It's the rule for root words ending in "c" is that you have to add “k”, so the spelling is related with the pronunciation. If we don't add the <k>, it looks as if the <c> has to be pronounced /s/. If the "k" was not there, “panicing” would look like the word which is supposed to be pronounced as if it is ended in "sing," while “paniced” would be pronounced like “panised”. The same ...

Zebra Crossing's distinguishing feature is alternating dark and light stripes on the road surface. The similarity of these markings to those of a zebra give the crossing's name.  A zebra crossing typically gives extra rights of way to pedestrians. A Pelican Crossing is a type of pedestrian crossing featuring a pair of poles each with a standard set of traffic lights facing oncoming traffic, a push button and two illuminated, coloured pictograms facing the pedestrian from across the road - a red, stationary person to indicate that it is not safe to cross, and a green, walking person to indicate that it is safe to do so. The name is derived from PELICON, a portmanteau of pedestrian light controlled. Puffin crossings are electronically controlled. Sensor sensure that the red light shows until the pedestrianhas safely crossed the road. These crossings don’t have a fashing amber light; they have a steady amberlight, like normal traffic lights. Its name is an abreviation of pedes...

This everyday word has undergone several changes in its history. It began life in the late 1500s as god be with you (or ye) , spelled variously as god be wy ye , god b'uy , and so on. The first part changed to good either on analogy with such other greetings as good day, good morning and good night , or as a euphemistic deformation to avoid the blasphemy of saying god (taboo avoidance) - or due to a combination of the two. The various independent words in god be with you were amalgamated into one, goodbye , and ultimately even this was shortened (clipped) to bye . (L. Campbell, historical linguistics.)

A jackeroo is an apprentice to a sheep farm in Australia. The big estate on which sheep or cattle are reared in large numbers are always called "station," and not farms; the owner is always the "boss"; and the men who work for them are "stockmen," and never shepherds or cowmen, although you are quite in order if you speak to them as "hands". The land over which the sheep roam is the "run". A large station will probably be divided into what should be called in Britain "fields," but which the jackeroo soon learns to call " padocks". The life of a jackeroo of Australia, likes the rancher of Canada and the veld-rider of south Africa, if we may say. Sent from my BlackBerry® wireless device

What highwaymen were to England and outlaws to America, the bushrangers were to Australia. Sent from my BlackBerry® wireless device

BBC - mble Ask a question - booth and kiosk : "the difference between the Booth and kiosk" 'via Blog this' "Kiosk" originally came from Iran or  Turkey; In America, a public telephone booth is not a kiosk, while in London it's called public telephone kiosk.

The merchant is de jure an ignoble fellow; de facto, he is rich and great. The husbandman is, on the other hand, de jure an honourable man; de facto, a beggar.

Stanza is the proper word for a verse. A couplet is a two-line stanza A triplet is a three-line stanza. A quatrain is a four-line stanza. Alliteration is the repetition of consonants. Assonance is the repetition of vowel sounds. Onomatopoeia is a word that sounds like what it means. Caesura is a pause in mid-line, often with commas. Enjambment helps emphasize meaning by extending a sentence from one line of poetry into the next one. Rhythm is the arrangement of words alternating stressed and unstressed elements. Simile is a figure of speech that expresses a resemblance between things of different kinds (usually formed with 'like' or 'as'). Metaphor is a figure of speech that expresses a resemblance by comparison not using like or as. Syntax is the order of words. Pace is how quick/slow/clunky/graceful the words actually sound. Tone is what feeling the words are spoken with (e.g. anger, happiness, fear, etc...). A dramatic monolo...

There are different types or forms of poems. Different structures and styles are chosen for different kinds of poem: Ballads have a regular rhythm and are usually in four-line verses. They usually tell an epic or dramatic story, and often have a chorus. Elegies are written for someone who has died, and is usually quite a slow, thoughtful poem. Sonnets are usually 14 lines long, with a regular scheme. Popular with Shakespeare himself, and many other traditional writers. Free verse has lines of irregular length that do not have to rhyme. Some poets think it's more like the way people talk, while other poets think it's an excuse to be lazy.

Killibinbin is a word the ancient Aussies used to describe anything extremely bright or shining. Saw this word in the Subway advertise for Aussie hair shine product. Sent from my BlackBerry® wireless device

Means, plural, but usually treated as single. Notably, article a/the is used in front of 'means': These pledges are a means to avoid prosecution. The pigtail was imposed by the victorious Manchu-Tartars when they finally established their dynasty in 1644, not so much as a badge of conquest, still less of servitude, but as a means of obliterating , so far as possible, the most patent distinction between the two races, and of unifying the appearance, if not the aspirations, of the subjects of the Son of Heaven. <Phrases> By all means: of course, certainly (granting a permission). May I make a suggestion? By all means. By any means: in any way, at all (following a negative). I am not poor by any means. By no means: not at all; certainly not. The outcome is by no means guaranteed.

Many 18th century books or newspapers have curious long s, and ligatures. Long s is used where s occurred in the middle or at the beginning of a word, except that in the combination sf  a short s is used instead. long-s Long s is derived from Roman cursive medial s, so it is also called medial s. The long s has a f-like nub at its middle, but on the left side only, thus many OCR (Optical Character Recognition) technology misread the long-s as an "f". There was no nub in its italic typeform, which gave the stroke a descender curling to the left, thus it is also called descending s. Long-s Italic typeform The character c in quaint ligature ct looks like Greek letter epsilon, or a French cedila on head of c. ct ligature

This BBC GCSE Bitesize post says, BODMAS stands for 'brackets', 'other', 'division', 'multiplication', 'addition' and 'subtraction'. It's the order in which we carry out a calculation. But another article says, the order of operations in Maths called BIDMAS. BIDMAS stands for Brackets, Indices, Division and Multiplication, Addition and Subtraction. The difference is that the second substitute 'o' with 'i', and we can understand that teacher normally chooses easy way to explain whose pupils can understand, exponent or power or indices are out of reach of foundation students, so teachers uses 'other' instead. And in this article , 'o' actually stands for 'order', as far as my memory can go, my English teacher never teach me 'order' actually means 'Powers and Square Roots, etc.' In United States, the mnemonic fo Order of Operation is PEMDAS, because brackets are called pa...

A weathervane has four steady arms. Each arm bears a letter telling in which direction in points, E, S, W, or N. Above the four arms is an arrow that turn about with the wind. When the west wind blows it turns the arrow round so that its point points to the west. When an east wind blows round goes to the east. The "point" of the arrow always points to whatever wind is blowing. If you look at the arms you can tell in what direction the arrow points. If it points somewhere between the north arm and the west arm, a north-west wind is blowing. Sometimes a weathervane has a cock on it instead of an arrow. It is then called a weathercock. The beak of the cock always points to the wind that is blowing, and we can tell the name of the wind by looking at the arms. If the beak points in the same direction as the N-arm, a north wind is blowing.