Oct 4, 2012 · 0 In the UK, I've generally seen 'Grandad' used, particularly among the older generations containing a preponderance of grandads. So I'd say that's the correct spelling in …

Oct 4, 2012 · What are the origins and differences between these two? Same for Granddad/Grandpa? Why was there the need for the two different names?

May 18, 2016 · I would imagine that both are equally viable in that context and that it comes down to which you prefer using, either visually or in terms of what you believe to be correct. If you …

Oct 15, 2010 · Which spelling is correct: benefiting or benefitting? Actually, from Google Ngrams, benefitting seems to be used slightly more frequently in American English than it is in British …

Apr 23, 2020 · I've come up with an even easier solution, and that is to simply consider every "great" as a number and then write the number in superscript before the word. For example, …

When you are using the word "Dad" to refer to a specific person, it's standing in place of their name, and thus, like their name, would be capitalized. When you're talking about dads in …

Feb 11, 2023 · I’m a teenager from the Midwest. Different people obviously refer to their relatives in many different ways, and I’ve noticed a wide variance in what people call their …

Your father's father is called your grand-father, yet your father's uncle is typically called your great-uncle (or so it seems with anybody I converse with). Why the inconsistency?

Where did the phrase pay a visit come from? Sometimes I hear instances of conversations like I paid a visit to the local cemetery to see my granddad's tombstone/grave or something like that.

Sep 4, 2023 · I know that there are six forms of this word, but "great-uncle" is most common ("great-aunt" has a similar graph). Why is this, if "grandfather" and "grandmother...