Why use "ex post facto" when "post facto" means the same thing?
In legal language I have come across the term "ex post facto". Isn''t "ex" redundant in this phrase? "post facto" also means "after the fact", so it should be sufficient. This is commonly used in
abbreviations
E.g. is short for exempli gratia, and is in common use to introduce an example within a sentence. Submit a sample of academic writing, e.g., a dissertation chapter. However, some authors
How to write a plural form of ''ex'' (ex girlfriend..etc)
I saw my ex-boyfriend at the mall yesterday. In plural, The ex-policemen were on a strike demanding justice. or, All of my ex-husbands showed up at my latest wedding! In informal English,
etymology
Ex-wife, ex-boyfriend. Does ex have a full form? Google dictionary has this information about the origin of ex: But what is the origin of the usage as a prefix in the words like ex-wife, ex-boyfri...
Does "ex-" prefix have a negative connotation?
An example of ex in a phrase that will have a positive connotation for some people, a negative connotation for other people and neither a positive nor a negative connotation for still others
punctuation
"ex-school" seems awkward. It looks as if he is a bus driver for ex-schools. "ex" by itself (no hyphen) doesn''t seem right either. Is it? "ex-Fish" just sounds ridiculous. Is this correct usage? Can each part
What is "ex-Government Official" meaning?
In this context, the prefix ex- means former. Wiktionary has this definition: former, but still living (almost always used with a hyphen) ex-husband, ex-president, ex-wife So an ex-government
Is there a rule for the correct pronunciation of words starting with "ex"?
I was thinking that this sort of anticipatory assimilation in which the voicing from the vowel following the ks makes the gz, also applies when the following sound is a voiced consonant, but it
What''s the difference between "ex-" and "former" [closed]
Conversationally, I agree that ex-wife seems much more common that former wife. In writing, though, the use of former doesn''t seem so rare. Here''s an interesting Ngram.
Is there an equivalent to "née" (birth name) for an *ex*-spousal name?
EX is also interesting because 1) Someone''s ex is the person they used to be married to or used to have a romantic or sexual relationship with and 2) ex- as a prefix is added to nouns to
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