Oct 25, 2020 · The diaeresis mark is sometimes used in English personal first and last names to indicate that two adjacent vowels should be pronounced separately, rather than as a diphthong. Examples include the given names Chloë and Zoë, which otherwise might be pronounced with a silent e. Here I'll add some IPA

Feb 4, 2016 · In contrast, the British vowel chart has /e/ but doesn't have /ɛ/. See the below Received Pronunciation Vowel chart: (Source: Wikipedia) As you can see, the /e/ in British chart is in the position "mid-near front" whereas the /e/ in standard IPA is in the position "close-mid-near front". The confusing things are in the dictionary.

Feb 18, 2014 · "i.e." is an abbreviation of the Latin words id est, which mean "that is". "e.g." is an abbreviation for the Latin words exempli gratia, which mean "for the sake of example". There's nothing wrong with "f.e. (For Example)" and "t.i. (That is)", but because of Latin's influence on English language, we've been using these abbreviations the way ...

Jan 12, 2012 · i.e. is an abbreviation for the Latin "id est", meaning "that is" (or more loosely, "in other words"). Its English usage follows precisely as such. Its English usage follows precisely as such. The abbreviation is simply used to signal that the following phrase is another way of expressing the preceding phrase.

The difference is that i.e. doesn't follow a clarification; it is not used for corrections, too. Those walking boots are synthetic, i.e., not leather or suede. He was a long-haired kid with freckles. Last time I saw him, that is. Those are androcentric—that is to say, male-dominated—concepts.

Jan 1, 2023 · This is very different from i.e. and e.g.. Some abbreviations like etc. and et al. aren't taken down to single letters, but almost every Latin->English abbreviation I know of is lower case, and includes at least one period. Etymologies I look up just talk about the Latin origins, but don't talk about how the particular glyphs were chosen.

Oct 21, 2012 · Second, the sentence "My favorite soup has many vegetables, i.e., vegetable soup." does not make sense in English and is indeed ungrammatical. ("My favorite soup has vegetable soup" is not something a native speaker would produce.) You were probably aiming for "My favorite soup has many vegetables, i.e. it's a vegetable soup" or some such.

Jul 13, 2023 · Compare hand tools, e.g. hammer and screwdriver with hand tools, i.e. those able to be held in the user's hands. Print both in lower-case roman, with two points and no spaces, and preceded by a comma. In OUP style, 'e.g.' and 'i.e.' are not followed by commas, to avoid double punctuation; commas are often use in US practice.

In formal contexts, I would go with "e.g." and "i.e.", with two periods and without a whitespace. The spellings without periods are quite popular, but informal. For example, Merriam-Webster does not have an entry for either "eg" or "ie". Wiktionary marks "eg." and "eg" as informal, and offers the following usage notes:

Aug 27, 2010 · – e.g. a Christian church, Canadian whisky, a Shakespearean sonnet, but not a quixotic mission, malapropism, holmesian nor pecksniffian. Where the original capital is no longer at the beginning of the word, usage varies: anti-Christian, but Presocratic or Pre-Socratic or presocratic (not preSocratic).