Is there a more elegant, grammatical or pedantic way to say "datacentre"? Both words have Latin origins, but there seems to be something clumsy about that combination. Should it be a datumcentre? One word, two words or hyphenated?
posted by TheophileEscargot on May 28, 2009 - 28 answers

Is it still, technically, a cover song when the original songwriter records a track that they wrote for someone else? [more inside]
posted by SansPoint on Apr 4, 2009 - 17 answers

Anyone know the reason why in some sources de Medici (as in Catherine, Marie, Lorenzo) takes an apostrophe like so: de' Medici. Wikipedia uses this form, for example. Newspapers don't seem to bother with the apostrophe.
posted by otio on Oct 5, 2007 - 11 answers

How do I end a sentence that's a list item? [more inside]
posted by pdb on Jun 14, 2006 - 20 answers

What is the History of English Language Capitalization? [more inside]
posted by freebird on Dec 27, 2005 - 34 answers

Which is correct, and why? (a) "None of those were..." (b) "None of those was..." [more inside]
posted by cortex on Jul 14, 2005 - 28 answers