Dec 1, 2019 · In dicta in a legal context is most likely a short version of in obiter dicta, which in turn is a technical term with a very long history; lawyers would be reluctant to substitute another term for it, as …

I assume 'dicta' is short for 'dictator' - meaning she's telling guys what to do. Someone from Barbados could confirm whether it's Bajan creole. And it's 'disco diva' which is the same context. But electronic …

Used casually, they are all synonyms. Used specifically, they are closely related with slight differences and occasional overlapping meanings. This is my simplified understanding of these related terms …

Oct 3, 2022 · From the BBC News website: Truss: Ground should have been laid for tax cuts Shouldn't the first letter after the colon be lowercase? According to Grammarly: In British English, the first letter ...

Jan 2, 2021 · A Physics.SE question had me reading up on D-branes on Wikipedia, where I found the following sentence in the section on black holes: The concept of black hole entropy poses some …

The explanation offers a few dicta for how to understand the usages of sex and gender: Some scholars use the two terms interchangeably (a result that should be avoided).

I use Cambridge online dictionary as my reference. In this dictionary, the explanations say: dictator: (disapproving) a leader who has complete power in a country and has not been elected by the pe...

Feb 8, 2016 · I came across this e card: and the capitalisation of "uncle" just somehow disturbed me. To the point where I googled the capitalisation of "aunt" and "uncle" and I found this GrammarBook …

Apr 26, 2021 · The French term democrature (from democra tie + dicta ture) is defined as: Dictature déguisée en démocratie par l’organisation d’élections non libres, contrôlées et/ou frauduleuses. Par …

Other terms with non-English plurals whose special Latin or Greek plural forms may not always be observed outside of technical writing include such singular/plural pairs as genus/genera, …