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  1. word choice - Photo creds or photo cred? - English Language

    Feb 8, 2015 · Cred is recognized as an informal slang abbreviation of credibility, not credit: noun, Slang. the quality of being believable or worthy of respect, especially within a particular social, professional, or other group: If you wear this t-shirt, you’ll be earning geek cred. Both chefs have plenty of Southern cred.

  2. Photo Credits or Photo Credit? - WordReference Forums

    Nov 8, 2012 · Credit means "the person the photo who shot or provided the photo," so if there's one person (and there's almost always just one person), it's "Photo credit." The only time I can think of that you might use "Photo credits" is if you have one place on a page or in a publication where you list the photograhers for several different photos. So for ...

  3. photo credit or photo courtesy | WordReference Forums

    Jan 4, 2018 · Hi all, if I have taken one picture off the internet and want to post it on my Facebook, while giving credit to the owner of the picture, should I use "photo credit" or "photo courtesy"? e.g. Photo Credit: ABC Company Photo Courtesy of ABC Company Many thanks! :)

  4. What do we call the “rd” in “3ʳᵈ” and the “th” in “9ᵗʰ”?

    Aug 23, 2014 · @WS2 In speech, very nearly always. In writing, much less so. I think what may be going on is that one just assumes that “June 1” is pronounced “June First”, or “4 July” as “the Fourth of July”.

  5. a photo of me, a photo of mine, a photo of myself

    Jun 1, 2018 · To add to what lingobingo said, "a photo of me" has me as its subject, but the photo can belong to anyone: My mother has a photo of me as a baby. "A photo of mine" can either belong to me, or have been taken by me, but its subject can be anything: That photograph of Yosemite Falls was taken by Ansel Adams, but this one is a photo of mine.

  6. Describing your position in a photo | WordReference Forums

    Apr 7, 2021 · Hi friends, help me out here , I'm still kind of confused about how to tell your position in the photo, I know you can say "I'm on the left" or "I'm on the right" but what about if you're behind or front? Do you say "I'm at the back/front"? , "I'm on …

  7. Origins of negative prefixes like in-, un-, il-, ir-, dis-, a-

    Note that the Latin verbal prefix di(s)-also meant "placed in an orderly pattern", which I believe is the origin of its secondary sense "in opposite or eccentric directions"; this evolved into a sense similar to the secondary senses of a(bs)-, e(x)-, and de-"away"; and I think this sense "away" as opposed to ad-and in-"towards" led to their sometimes …

  8. dobla / doble - WordReference Forums

    Feb 15, 2009 · I'm using Rosetta stone. It uses photos but offers no explanations. A photo shows a taxi turning left through an intersection. Below the photo the caption says "El taxi dobla a la izquierda". Then a photo shows a man on foot turning left with the caption "doble". Then the photo shows a taxi going straight through the intersection.

  9. Plural for "photo"? - English Language & Usage Stack Exchange

    The verbs go and do in the 3rd person singular are goes and does; the nouns potato (s) potatoes and hero (s) heroes (pl) follow the same pattern, hence some people apply the same spelling convention for photo. Just write photos always, and without the apostrophe. I often see native speakers write photo's when they mean the plural form. –

  10. take a photo vs take a picture | WordReference Forums

    May 14, 2016 · I hardly ever use the word photo and my impression is it's used a lot less in the US than in some places. We have our pictures taken, we have class pictures, we have graduation pictures, we show people the pictures we took on vacation, we have our picture in the paper, we get our picture taken with Santa, we have picture IDs, …

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