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  1. Renumeration vs Remuneration (reimbursed financially), which is correct?

    Remuneration is much more commonly used than renumeration (https://goo.gl/44GQRa). Remuneration is first cited c.1400, comes from Middle French (remuneracion) and Latin (remūnerātiō), and means …

  2. When does the word 'months' get an apostrophe? [duplicate]

    Jul 10, 2020 · Twelve months' remuneration is a noun phrase - its head is the noun remuneration and so the modifier can be a possessive. Syntactically, it doesn't have to be a possessive, but it can be. This …

  3. Is it "Yours faithfully" or "Yours sincerely"?

    Feb 21, 2011 · This is called " complimentary close ". As reported by Oxford Handbook of Commercial Correspondence: If the letter begins with Dear Sir, Dear Sirs, Dear Madam, or Dear Sir/Madam, the …

  4. Differences between Verb + to be + adjective and Verb + adjective

    The first one that comes to mind is To be, or not to be, of course. The to is required because infinitives starting sentences require a complementizer to mark subordination (remove it and see what …

  5. "At a hotel" or "in a hotel" - English Language & Usage Stack Exchange

    Jan 28, 2012 · What is the difference between at a hotel and in a hotel? The NYTimes seems to be using both of them. I looked up the ngram on google and it seems in a hotel is used more often than …

  6. pronunciation - How does one pronounce the '@' symbol? - English ...

    Sep 7, 2010 · How can I pronounce @, At or At the rate? Can I use it in a sentence? Please explain with an example.

  7. What does the idiom/phrase "but I digress" mean?

    I was going to ask a similar question today: why is the phrase always in that same form "but I digress", writers seem to go out of their ways sometimes just to fit the "idiom" in that exact form, why not other …

  8. vocabulary - English Language & Usage Stack Exchange

    Nov 26, 2014 · The best choices are "reparations" and "compensation", which have already been mentioned in other answers. "reparations" is the best choice for money paid by a country that loses a …

  9. single word requests - "corollarily" or equivalent? - English Language ...

    Your answer made me curious about other words that are hard to pronounce, so I did a quick search and got some interesting results. Here's a few of them: Entrepreneurship, Remuneration, …

  10. What is a word for someone who abuses their workers?

    Mar 7, 2022 · I have been trying to find a word to describe someone who routinely abuses their workers, and perhaps even more than that, scorns them and sees them as inferior. My first guess was despot …