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How can it be determined, if the correct version is "The Venue is in the map" or "The Venue is on the map"? And which is correct?

Would the same also apply to other abbreviations such as km (kay-em) instead of kilometer ? I can see an advantage to reading millimeter as mm (em-em) because it's quicker to say.

Consider the following sentence: In July of 2012 Jesse informed us that she was engaged to be married and asked if she could add her fiancée to the lease, beginning the 15th of August 2012. Is it any more or less correct to place a comma after the first date? In July of 2012, Jesse informed us that she was engaged to be married and asked if she could add her fiancée to the lease, beginning the 15th of August 2012. Assuming one is no more correct than the other, does this change the meaning of the sentence, or is it pure style? Bonus question: Word tells me that it's improper to place a comma after the "August" at the end of the sentence. I've always been taught that a comma should be used to separate the year from the rest of the date. Was I taught wrong, or is Word lying to me? Answer The sentence is correct with or without the comma. But the comma introduces a break/pause, which can be helpful in a longer sentence, and personally I would include it. As regards for...

"Can you please tell me what is the food choice for a vegetarian ?" Why is there no inversion in the example above? I mean, why did the native English speaker who wrote the example not do it like this: Can you please tell me what the food choice for a vegetarian is ? or Can you please tell me what the food choice is for a vegetarian ? I have been taught that, whenever we ask an indirect question, we have to switch the inverted word order in the direct question to normal sentence order as follows: Where is the nearest hospital?(direct question) 2a. Can you please tell me where the nearest hospital is ?(indirect question) So could you please explain to me why this change in the order of words doesn't happen in the original example (written by a native speaker)?

And if yes, is it common or rather odd? Example sentence: Anecdotally, we do see instances of customers buying both our products at the same store. The Chrome spellchecker doesn't seem to know it, by the way: Answer I don’t know what you mean by “a proper adverb”. On Dictionaries and Software If you are concerned that it may not be found in this or that dictionary, this means nothing, since derived forms that are generated by productive derivational morphology are never fully enumerated in any dictionary. The absence of a word from a dictionary never proves anything about its validity as a word. The OED has an entry for the adjective anecdotal and another for the adverb anecdotically . I would rather read anecdotally than anecdotically , as a matter of personal preference. I think what you are seeing is simply a difference in how Chrome applies derivational morphology, or perhaps fails to do so, within its spellchecking algorithm. Other browsers give different results. So for e...

Take these French words that exist as well in English: résumé protégé sauté exposé café The French pronunciation for the é is simply /e/, which exists in English. So why is the widely accepted English pronunciation /eɪ/, rather than /e/?

While walking on a path, sometimes two person try to dodge each other. Like one guy steps left, and at the same time, other guy steps left and then switches direction and so does the other guy. Is there a word to describe this? Answer This is called a droitwich . From The Meaning of Liff by Douglas Adams and John Lloyd: DROITWICH (n.) A street dance. The two partners approach from opposite directions and try politely to get out of each other's way. They step to the left, step to the right, apologise, step to the left again, apologise again, bump into each other and repeat as often as unnecessary. The Meaning of Liff is a humorous work of fiction in which the names of British towns are given alternative meanings. This definition of droitwich also has an entry in urban dictionary along with notable alternatives: the pavement tango and the get-past-you shuffle .