Poll: is “$102 million dollars” “102-dollar million dollars” or “102 million-dollar dollars”?
Poll: is “$102 million dollars” “102-dollar million dollars” or “102 million-dollar dollars”?
Both where I’m from and where I live in western Europe are the oldest buildings 14th-century churches.
Can you give an example? Because I’ve just looked at Luxembourg, Nepal, and Aruba, and they’re all littered with named buildings and landmarks. Pyongyang even has a fair bit filled in.
My mum’s got a great anecdote about how the doctor came around about my cough when I was a newborn, and he came into a room full of local mums all fawning over me in my cot and chugging away.
“Satellite city” might do the trick.
I go in with a lot of fervour myself, but “blasting”?
Sometimes people fall from an aircraft and bounce jovially off the ground; sometimes people turn their heads too quickly and tear the fabric keeping their windpipe in place.
I’m not convinced that there’s even a soft rule; I think it’s just a case of the one or the other way of doing it nebulously sticking, like how sometimes you form a noun with -ness and sometimes you do it with -hood. Which now I think about it is more or less what you’re saying, but I don’t think it’s done consciously at any rate.
Bizarrely enough, I know the feeling, haha. Actually I’m sort of undergoing it now.
I believe “the gays” used to be offensive, and I did notice that myself but it doesn’t make sense to met that that would be the distinction!
I’d never considered this as relevant to bipolar disorder.
adjectives as nouns are rarely a good sign in general
I don’t think that’s true unless you mean within the context of referring to people or something, e.g. the blacks, the poors. But then stuff like “the rich” and “the unemployed” I don’t really take issue with.
I think it unironically would be androids.
Well like I say, I just read it somewhere a few years ago, and I’ve just had a brief search myself and found the same thing as you basically.
That’ll show him!