Our numbers have a specific two-letter combination that tells us how the number sounds. For example 9th 3rd 301st What do we call these special sounds?

When someone says "it was great seeing you," people often respond, "it was great seeing you too." This can be shortened to just "you too," but the meaning is the same.

At work, I commonly type "voicemail box" and "voice mailbox" interchangeably so I'm wrong only half the time. Which one is correct? I had a similar dilemma with "login to" and "log into", but this...

Arrive carries 3 prepositions: in, on, or at. He arrived in New York. He arrived at the station. He arrived on the scene of the accident. Also: He arrived here. [no preposition] He arrived at 12 o'clock. He arrived within 10 minutes. He will arrive in an hour. So it turns out that ' arrive ' either carries or doesn't carry a preposition depending on the place or time that follows it, i.e. if ...

I usually use "at a company" but I have encountered some articles using "in a company", "in XYZ firm" or "in an organization". Which one is right?

Dictionary coverage of 'get cracking' J.E. Lighter, Random House Historical Dictionary of American Slang (1994) reports that "get cracking" came into U.S. English from the UK during the 1940s: get cracking to get busy; get going. {This phr [ase] came into U.S. speech through contact with British armed forces during WWII.} Lighter's first citation for the phrase is from Eric Partridge ...

Is there a rule governing the use of a hyphen with the prefix "post-"? Or is the use of the hyphen decided by convention in this case? In particular, I am concerned about the following sentence:

"Tug (or 'pull') at one's heartstrings" is an established idiom. "Tug at one's heart", is not, though it is a perfectly valid expression, with the right meaning. Your question is slightly ambiguous, because of the word "make": to be clear, it is the thing that elicits compassion (which might be a person, an action, or an event) which "tugs at your heartstrings". You wouldn't use it of the ...

From the OALD: copyright (in/on something) if a person or an organization holds the copyright on a piece of writing, music, etc, they are the only people who have the legal right to publish, broadcast, perform it, etc, and other people must ask their permission to use it or any part of it. Although it might be interesting to notice, here, that also the other expression is used.

There is some idiom that starts out like, "I'm going to start taking names and..." I can't remember the rest of it. What is it and when is it used?