Pledger vs pledgor? - English Language & Usage Stack Exchange
网页2018年4月13日 · 1. Belay that! They're subscription-only links to the full OED, but pledgor has its own separate entry, defined as only having the legal sense. This is just one of 3 meanings (wherein "person who drinks to a well-wishing toast" is marked "obsolete") for the spelling pledger. – FumbleFingers. Apr 12, 2018 at 17:14.
How to use "on the other side of the ledger" in a sentence?
网页2016年2月14日 · Awkwardness (and even "awkwardness") may be in the eye of the beholding reader, but I think this passage from From A Little Corner of Freedom: Russian Nature Protection from Stalin to Gorbachev by D R Weiner gracefully balances the good and the bad in the life of former Soviet premiere Nikita Khrushchev:
Is there a word for the person that's giving the promise?
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differences - According to vs. pursuant to - English Language
网页2016年6月24日 · 2. "Pursuant" is a very very formal word, out of place in most non-legal contexts; but it has the meaning you want. "According to your last email", doesn't mean what you want: to me means something like "as you said in your last email", and following it with what I want to do is incoherent.
What's the origin of this vulgar internet slang term?
网页J. Sheidlower, in The F Word, 3rd edition, traces the first sense of it to F. I. Gwaltney's 1954 Heaven & Hell (p.233 where he refers to WWII) "Grimes loves the army and the army's using him for a screw-boy."