
'the USA' vs. 'the US' - English Language & Usage Stack Exchange
Mar 21, 2014 · The term US will always logically have more Google hits than USA simply because of this adjectival use, but those outside of the USA tend to use USA rather than just US when referring …
Should it be 10 US$ or US$ 10? - English Language & Usage Stack …
May 21, 2011 · Which is correct to use in a sentence, 10 US$ or US$ 10. Perhaps USD should be used instead or even something else?
What does "be upon us" mean? - English Language & Usage Stack …
Sep 9, 2022 · Can I say the following sentence? XR2 Technology is upon us, promising a better experience for users with visual impairments. Does this sentence mean that this new technology has …
meaning - Can I use "US-American" to disambiguate "American"? If not ...
Oct 21, 2012 · I work in an American Studies department at a German university, and I see "US-American" (or "US-Amerikaner") used all the time in scholarly writing in order to distinguish …
It is us? It is we? - English Language & Usage Stack Exchange
The 12 "it is us" hits are of the form "Too often it is us, the anxious onlookers" or " because it is us Germans who are today leading the way". If you clean the results by searching for a comma after "it …
“We three” vs “us three” - English Language & Usage Stack Exchange
Nov 19, 2020 · In the sentence, "We three will go to the Express mall. You can find we/us three there, having a good time." I'm unsure whether to use we/us for the second reference. I have …
Differences between "the USA", "the US" and "the States"
Aug 3, 2014 · I personally use the US when speaking about the country in general, the States when talking to someone overseas (about coming over, for instance), and rarely — or never the USA. …
Is it grammatically correct to use "we" or "us" as well as the name of ...
As Araucaria mentions in answers below, the first example as well as the second should have us employees rather than we, as in both cases the phrase serves as the object of a preposition.
Is Let us = Let's? - English Language Learners Stack Exchange
Aug 20, 2015 · Let us pray is spoken in a religious context, and ties the speaker back to the history of their religion. In other words it's purposefully archaic-sounding. If "let's pray" is a plain proposal to …
Date format in UK vs US - English Language & Usage Stack Exchange
May 24, 2012 · Why is the most common date format in the US like mm/dd/yyyy, whereas in Europe (including the UK) it's more common to have dd/mm/yyyy? Looking around, I found that the US form …