Mar 12, 2012 · Which spelling is better, queueing or queuing? Both words seem to mean the same, but there are two different spellings. My context is: Queueing Latency versus Queuing …

Oct 2, 2012 · What do you usually say, depending on the context and depending if it's US or UK English? wait in line or queue

—Christopher Kimball, Cook's Illustrated, January & February 2008 and The crowd was queuing at the snack bar. And now look at this definition of 'Enqueue' as a verb from the Oxford …

Jul 31, 2012 · I have tried to use candidate or queue member to indicate a person waiting in a queue, but the former is not accurate and the latter is not a noun. Is there a better word for a …

Jul 9, 2012 · He says you can't pin down why you would use one or the other. If I'm standing in line, I'm standing in the line I am in. On the other hand, even if there is a line on the floor, that …

In typical English Missus, abbreviated Mrs., or Miss, abbreviated Ms., are used as honorifics. As StoneyB says, if using Ma'am as an honorific is the convention in the Philippines, then such is …

Jan 30, 2015 · According to the American English corpus it seems the idiom began as outstay one's welcome but in the last thirty years the version with overstay (red line) is by far the most …

May 1, 2013 · I am looking for a word which describes the emotion that one experiences on helping someone (friend, colleague, family, stranger). This helping out is not in the context of …

Sep 27, 2013 · munch generally noisy eating, lots of saliva is involved and the person forgets to close their mouth -- not attractive. crunch a sound usually associated with eating crisps …

May 22, 2017 · There are a small number of words aside from ageing that retain silent e before -ing; for some of them, this spelling is mandatory in American English as well as British English. …