is a disease of having abnormally large size.  Is there a grammatical rule that says that it should be called "gigantism" and not "giantism"?
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A little look through an etymology dictionary shows that the root is Latin gigas with adjective form gigant.  So in its derivation to English, why did the second "g" get retained in gigantic but was dropped from giant?  I have an inkling that the word giant may have travelled through French on its way to English, where it may have been pronounced "gee-yant" or "jee-yant" with a change to the second "g" that was then dropped when taken into English.  However, the "g" is retained as a hard "g" in gigantic.
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What is another word for a person who likes to talk too much. I was thinking bigmouth, but bigmouth could mean "somebody who likes carrying messages voluntarily".
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speaking, opinion goes before size, i.e. opinion, size, age, shape, color, origin, material, purpose. However, I saw this example in Practical English Usage, third edition, page 12:      a big beautiful garden   Or you have probably heard the known expression  (BBW). What am I missing?
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Height and Weight — How to write them when abbreviations are not used.  He was a 6-foot 5-inch man.   (Not: 6-foot-5-inch man, with three hyphens.)  She gave birth to a 7-pound 11-ounce baby.  (Not: 7-pound-11-ounce baby, with three hyphens.)  And, it should be, I believe:  He is 6 feet 5 inches tall. (Not: 6 feet, 5 inches tall.)  The baby weighed 7 pounds 11 ounces. (Not: 7 pounds, 11 ounces.)  Despite variations in punctuation, I believe that we do not separate singular units of measurements like these with commas.  Good to all?
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I have been taught that it's grammatically proper to use the before countries like "Sudan and Yemen" but I was never given a reason (if there exists any, of course) when I asked why, except for "it is one of those ambiguous parts of English language that we &ndash; as non-native speakers &ndash; should just accept without trying to look for a reason". Now, I'd like to know if there is any answer to this "why" or I should keep on believing that there are no hard and fast rules when it comes to questions like these.
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What's the grammar behind A'warring, from the lyrics of Symphony of Destruction by Megadeth? It's the first time I'm seeing the use of such apostrophe.
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Possible Duplicate:          I have seen a lot of backlash in internet media against people using the word literally to mean something not literal. Something like "he was literally as big as a house" to mean someone was very big I think this comic sums up the anti literal movement well   Is this actually grammatically incorrect or can the word "literally" be a hyperbole strengthening a metaphor?
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Recently, when writing an email, I used the following phrase:  'I hope this does not cause too big of an issue'  However, in their response, the recipient (an English teacher) said that he was 'not too sure about the grammar of "too big of an issue"' (with no further comment). However,  seems to suggest otherwise. What could he have possibly picked out as incorrect in my usage of the phrase, and is it really significant enough of an issue to remark on in a response?  This question is not a duplicate because I'm asking about whether the phrase itself is correct, not the etymology of it. Further, it's considering the whole phrase (e.g can an issue be 'big', or should it be 'significant'?), and not just that one part.
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I was doing 'articles' exercise on the web. I found this sentence,     Ben has a terrible headache.   Why 'a' is used here. The terrible headache is not a countable noun. Thus, 'a' should not be used here. I feel the correct sentence is "Ben has terrible headache." However, the correct answer is the following: "Ben has a terrible headache."  I am confused. Please do help me.   Can I say, "I had headache."?
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I am looking for a word that would describe being obsessed with the details of a larger entity such that the "looker" neglects to see the whole or (perhaps more importantly) the purpose of the whole.  Basically, "not seeing the big picture".  What can [more] succinctly describe this?  Edit: I just found this post: . I think I want the exact opposite.
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I would appreciate your help phrasing the following:     I am looking for elements    which/whose/... size/sizes is/are relatively large.
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Which of these are acceptable? Is one preferable over the other?   "Chemically-deposited tourmaline is never periwinkle." "Chemically deposited tourmaline is never periwinkle."   Also, is the title to the this question asking what I'm trying to ask?  (I realize that there are other questions about hyphenation in similar contexts; I'm asking specifically about -ly adverbs.)
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Right now I can only think of one instance in which this regularly occurs.  The adjective proper is sometimes placed after the noun it modifies, e.g:      A class of cold-blooded oviparous or ovoviviparous vertebrated animals whose skin is covered with scales or scutes; the reptiles proper.   What is this word order called, and why is it ever used?  Edit: I really want to know about proper, and while the word hyperbaton relates to post-positivity when it is meant to be rhetorically impacting, it doesn't seem to fit with ubiquitous post-positivity, such as that of proper.  I've accepted hyperbaton as the correct term/reason for almost all post-positive constructions, but I'd like a complete answer to include proper.
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Possible Duplicate:          I am not a native English speaker and this would/could thing always bothers me. Please give some example + explanation on this. Sorry if the question is too naive.
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This is hard to describe, but I'm curious about what the proper word is for these thingies in English.  So I searched for a picture on Google and circled what I'm referring to with red:
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I'm having some problems with lines that turn out to be too long. There are correct hyphenation rules for the word but they aren't being applied.  Let me first give the sentence that is too long:  An isomorphism that maps a graph to itself is called an \concept{automorphism}.   The command concept is defined as follows  \newcommand{\concept}[1]{\index{#1}\marginpar{\raggedright\textbf{#1}}\textbf{#1}}   The problem seems to be that words inside \concept aren't being hyphenated. How can I fix this? If I type   An isomorphism that maps a graph to itself is called an \textbf{automorphism}.   then the word is hyphenated perfectly. So I would now like to have the command \concept behave the same way, i.e. allow concepts to be hyphenated according to the standard rules.
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My book says:     For most of the small objects, both are same. But for mammoth ones, they are really different ones. And in a gravity-less environment, COG is absent; COM still exists.   Ok, what's the big deal when things are small and big? How these two :  &amp; ?