'the USA' vs. 'the US' - English Language & Usage Stack Exchange
2014年3月21日 · When the United States is mentioned with one or more other countries in the same sentence, U.S. or US may be too informal, especially at the first mention or as a noun instead of an adjective (France and the United States, not France and the U.S.). Do not use the spaced U. S., nor the archaic U.S. of A., except when quoting.
What is my Nationality: United States of America or American?
2017年1月26日 · @mobileink I am a steady consumer of newspapers and other media from Australian, British, Canadian, and Irish sources as well as from the U.S., and I am fairly certain I have never encountered a use of America or American that was not in reference to the United States. For that matter, I don't think I've come across it in South African ...
Why are the United States often referred to as America?
Wikipedia has a good section on how U.S. citizens came to be known as Americans. It's interesting to note that in other languages, U.S. citizens are not so easily confused with other inhabitants of North and South America. For example, some Spanish-speaking people use the term norteamericanos.
Should it be 10 US$ or US$ 10? - English Language & Usage Stack …
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capitalization - United States Military: Should the word "military" …
2020年7月20日 · No, and U.S. forces is preferred. (Military is ambiguous - traditionally, it referred to the Army, later, to the three Military Departments formed in 1947). DoD Dictionary has an entry for U.S. forces, but not U.S. military. –
american english - Understanding U.S. President capitalization ...
2014年12月18日 · The webpage discusses the rules and nuances of capitalizing "U.S. President" in American English.
grammaticality - Need for using the article "the" before "United …
The is used in front of countries that have:. plural names: the Netherlands. a general geo-political noun of place, e.g. republic, emirate, kingdom, state:
AM/PM vs a.m./p.m. vs am/pm - English Language & Usage Stack …
I used to think PM/AM was correct, but at some point, I switched to using p.m./a.m. for reasons I can't recall. I know that in practical, casual writing, people tend to use whatever form is most
Addressing a former office-holder by that office's title
As far as I can tell from perusing other official governmental protocol guides, this remains the formal practice in the U.S. In common practice, very high officials such as the U.S. president have been granted a "courtesy title" for many years now, and the "courtesy title" is trickling down.
numbers - How to say the total amount? - English Language
2012年4月23日 · Say U.S. dollars twenty-three thousand four hundred and twenty-eight and thirty-two cents. And if it is 23,428.00, do I say . Say U.S. dollars twenty-three thousand four hundred and twenty-eight only.