How do you call the words a speaker uses when he is nervous, like "um", "ah", "like"?
In my native language there’s a word for that kind of words, but I’m not sure how they are called in english.
Does “to assert” a condition imply establishing it?
I’m a computer programmer. When we test programs, we often use a function called “assert” to check if the program produces the conditions we expect....
Less vs. Fewer (double post, please go to the other one.)
Accidently posted this twice. Lets stop adding to this one and go to the one with more comments
How do you call the item after the next (counting from now), and the one after that, and so on, in a sequence that started in the past?
Imagine there’s a sequence of items, it started somewhere in the past and will keep on going. The kind of items could be anything – say days, or football matches, or lectures, or widgets out of an assembly line....