When historical reporting is included, the column for this year's survey will be thinner, and the column for last year will appear behind it in grey. should be. When historical reporting is …

For the word 'year' to be preceded by 'an' it must sound like it's beginning with a vowel. The reason why it is a tad tricky is because of the difference in the way people pronounce it. Some …

Dec 28, 2014 · @tchrist "year-old" is a compound. "fifteen–year-old" is a compound created not by combining the words fifteen, year and old with each other on an equal footing (like "vis-a-vis") …

Feb 21, 2023 · Use of ‘the year’ is also optional here: in modern usage, ‘…in 1732’ would be more common, but ‘the year’ adds emphasis and formality; in historical usage ‘…the year 1732’ was …

Longman says yearly means ‘happening or appearing every year or once a year’ Oxford says yearly means ‘Happening or produced once a year or every year’ Your Dengue outbreaks …

Oct 27, 2015 · Both sentences have the same meaning and are both fine grammatically, but by convention in is not usually used to refer to the current year, and will sound strange to native …

There is a difference between a duration period of three months as in "trimester" and an event occurring every 3 months as in "quarterly". In the same vein you would have a quadrimester or …

Jul 2, 2014 · @user It's not a typo; it's what I intended; it's how I say it; it's perfectly correct when month (or week, year, century etc) is locative rather than substantive. It's not uncommon (or …

Nov 20, 2017 · As reported by the Oxford Living Dictionaries (and similarly by the copy of the New Oxford American English that was installed on my Mac Mini) yr. is an English abbreviation, but …

Dec 10, 2013 · year(-). Most but not all compounds formed with year are one word: yearbook, year-end, yearling, yearlong (adj.), year-round (adj.). The same advice appears in The New …