The word year when pronounced starts with a phonetic sound of e which is a vowel sound making it eligible for being preceded by an. Yet, we tend to write a year. Why?

The second and final year gives the impression that you mean one specific year, which was at the same time your second, as well as your final year. For example: In the fifth and last year of the war, the …

Dec 6, 2022 · A year-end review is a review of something held at the end of the year. The year in review could be used as the name of this year-end review, but it can also simply be a phrase describing the …

10 Either annually or yearly can and frequently does replace ‘every year’ as none of the phrases is limited by the number of occurrences, except to the extent that what happens twice a year is strictly …

Apr 25, 2022 · In the sentence, The company experienced strong year[-]over[-]year growth., how does the Chicago Manual of Style govern the hyphenation? Part of me believes that it falls under the …

Is this the correct spelling of year's in this context? I'm not a native English speaker/writer, but I do consider myself fluent, and this spelling tickled something in the back of my brain. If it matters, the …

Feb 21, 2023 · I recommend "in the year 1908" then. It's hard to argue in any case that the year belonged to or derived from "1908", which would warrant the use of the word "of". AKA "Freud is a …

Happy New Year! is a sentence by itself, and thus Happy should be capitalized. It would not be necessary to capitalize "birthday" if you were saying "Happy birthday" instead of "Happy New Year". I …

Dec 28, 2014 · 1 I would use a suspended en-dash: I was an advisor to the 14– and 15–year-olds. The choice of open (year old), closed (yearold) or hyphenated (year-old) compounds is often a difficult …

Feb 1, 2015 · You can also say the child is 18 months old. Alternatively, "He's one and a half" would be understood perfectly (presumably one would already know the child's gender). I think the full written …