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?

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 …

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 …

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 …

Jul 29, 2011 · From WordWeb: Annual: Occurring or payable every year What is the corresponding single word for occurring every two year, three year, four year etc. I understand …

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 …

I wonder that should we use mid-year and year-end or to use mid-year and end-year. What 's diffirent?

Oct 27, 2015 · You've helped us with our thesis statements in this year. You've helped us with our thesis statements this year. Both sentences have the same meaning and are both fine …

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 …

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, …