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I have heard of the term "Yankee" often referring to people in the Northern U.S. by Southerners. My question is: is this term considered derogatory or offensive and should it be avoided in workplace

 

World Wide Words appears to agree with you: It has been claimed that nurdle was coined by the writers of the US TV show Rowan & Martin?s Laugh-In with farkel bippy and others. The true origin as any Brit of mature years can tell you was in the crazy mind of Michael Bentine one of the original Goons and the chief perpetrator of a BBC television show between 1960-64 called It?s a Square ...

 

Prioritary is a mathematical term and almost unheard of outside of mathematics. Whether it is "correct" or not therefore depends on what kind of writing you are doing for what kind of work addressed to what kind of audience. It is possible that like planification or actorness it has entered non-native usage via mistranslations from words like the Italian prioritari or the French prioritaire.

 

In Scottish English I know that the word summat is used in place of standard something. But what's the etymology of this pronoun? It seems unlikely to me that summat could be merely a variant

 

Perchance and Mayhap Ask Question Asked 2 years 7 months ago Modified 2 years 7 months ago

 

Think different is probably a variation on the colloquial expression think big which is not the normal way we use the verb think. The other slogan is perfectly normal syntactically but a bit awkward because of the overly long subject the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world. And by the way I don't think advertising is amazing at all I find it dull and of low ...

 

Historically English speakers and writers have also had the option of using mayhap (to say nothing of perchance). The fact that people couldn't maintain a clear distinction between perhaps and maybe may help explain why mayhap and perchance seem to have fallen by the wayside.

 

The only difference between by chance and perchance is that you are more likely to hear the latter in the speech of older generations.

 

You could do a lot better by quoting reputable sources including perchance the ones this wikipedia entry cites.

 

I would like to know the difference between the words perchance and perhaps. I know that perchance is more literary and a bit archaic but that's not what I am after.