Mar 18, 2016 · It seems plausible that the medical convention of using 'x' as the second letter of an abbreviation (in, for example, Dx (diagnosis), Sx (symptom or surgery), Fx (family), Hx (history), and …

Feb 23, 2015 · Medicine has a tendency to abbreviate many things using X: Biopsy - Bx, Dx - diagnosis, Fx - fracture, Hx - history, Sx - surgery, and Tx - transplant, transformation, transaction, therapy, …

As others have mentioned, Christmas and New Year are proper nouns, and thus are capitalized. Generally the phrases "Merry Christmas" and "Happy New Year" are used in greetings, as headings, …

Sep 20, 2021 · Please include the research you’ve done, or consider if your question suits our English Language Learners site better. Questions that can be answered using commonly-available …

Sep 19, 2011 · What's the origin of the idiom go south? Why is it go south only? Why not go southwest or go east? Are the direction-related idioms go south, go north, go east, and go west correlated? …

This question is related, but is not a duplicate, of Why do some words have "X" as a substitute?. I have noticed that a few nouns can be significantly abbreviated with an "x" at the end....

Nov 12, 2011 · It seems to me that if one describes hell as 'bloody', that is simply describing one of the properties you'd expect of it. So, why is 'bloody hell' used as an offensive or shocking phrase?

Apr 20, 2015 · Your take/consider constructions seem like independent clauses (of the imperative variety). As such, common usage would suggest using the colon, dash, or period to mark the …

Dec 1, 2011 · Both would have had to have been and would have had to be are pointlessly complex for most contexts. Just would have to have been (with the first have pronounced haff) is all you need. …

Oct 8, 2012 · Pinyin uses zh and j to represent two distinct sounds in Chinese, but these sounds are not differentiated in English, so they are both pronounced like an English j. However, as the answers …