If Hiro is Japanese, it would be pronounced the same way English would pronounce this (ungrammatical) sentence: He row (Equal stress on each syllable). As such it is a common nickname made by reducing the popular Japanese male name Hiroshi.

"Lain" is the grammatically correct choice in your example. In a sentence like the following, I am fairly confident I would come up with "lain" If it weren't for the mosquitos, I would have lain on the beach working on my tan all afternoon. And in the following I would use "...

Nice for this word to pop up here again. I'm about to pack my panniers and head off on a 10-day bike camping tour.

I know the story to which you refer, but I as I recall, Texas was not an element in the joke. It had to do with what one must accomplish to qualify as a "sourdough." As for what it takes to become a sough dough, I can add two more methods: 1) Watch the ice come in and watch the ice go out ...

Have a look at Robert Service, "The Ballad of Blasphemous Bill" Like a lot of Service, it's a bit macabre but there you are, life in the Yukon was hard. https://meditrax.com/service.html So I buried him as the contract was In a narrow grave and deep And there he's waiting the Great Clean-u...

Legislatures in some jurisdictions believe the blandishments have been too effective and are legislating to remove such blandishments as drop-off ballot boxes and automatic registration at the department of motor vehicles.

But there is a lion in Scotland. If you look at the Royal Coat of Arms of Scotland, you will see it has a red lion standing up and facing left (with respect to the viewer). If someone knows how to describe this animal using proper heraldic terminology, please correct my feeble attempt.

Thanks for the memories.
Here is an investigation of the quote that you might enjoy
https://quoteinvestigator.com/2013/07/0 ... ia-is-not/

As is often the case, the history cited here probably isn't how you remember it.

I, on the other hand, am reminded of Appellation d'origine Controlee every time I see a reference to her.

There appears to be a typo in the Old High German word. Can it be corrected?

The James Webb Space Telescope will be heading for the L2 Lagrange point later this year, assuming it is not again delayed. The L2 Lagrange point with respect to the earth is the one about 1,500,000 km away from the earth and directly away from the sun. (Sun . . 1 AU . . Earth . . 1,500,000km . . L2...

Slava, I think the answer to your question can be found in the usage examples provided ". . . I'm glad my family settled to the septentrion of North Carolina." I believe this expression suggests the speaker divided North Carolina into roughly equal northern and southern districts with an i...

Yet another related word from this route is "expunge" to "prick out, blot out"

I believe Bbeeton's point is that the pronunciation guide says "fomite" is pronounced "fo-mait" where the second syllable rhymes with "bait" while words like "stalagmite" are pronounced to rhyme with "bite"

Laver, the substance but not the word, is alive and well in Japan and Korea. I imagine many Agorans know it and have eaten it in the form of nori, the dried seaweed that forms the wrapping in nigiri at the sushi bar. "Laver," the word, does appear from time to time in guidebooks discussing...