None – English editing
Some language purists maintain that none can take a singular verb, never a plural one:none of them is coming tonight rather than none of them are coming tonight. There is…
Onto – English editing.
The preposition onto meaning ‘to a position on the surface of’, as in they fell off their stools onto the rough stone floor , has been widely written as one…
Niggardly – English editing.
Niggardly has no historical connection with nigger, but because it sounds like it, and probably because it is at the same time a derogatory term, meaning ‘ungenerous with money, time,…
Nevertheless – English editing.
It is quite common to find nevertheless spelled ‘never the less’. Although this is how it was written many centuries ago, the standard modern spelling is as one word. For…
Negroid – English editing.
The term Negroid belongs to a set of terms introduced by 19th-century anthropologists attempting to categorize human races. Such terms are associated with outdated notions of racial types, and so…
Negro – English editing.
The word Negro was adopted from Spanish and Portuguese and is first recorded in the mid 16th century. It remained the standard term throughout the 17th-19th centuries and was even…
Native American – English editing.
Native American is now the current accepted term in most contexts, particularly in the US, for a member of any of the indigenous peoples of the United States. For Scientific…
Native – English editing.
In contexts such as a native of Boston the use of the noun native is quite acceptable. But when used as a noun without qualification, as in this dance is…