Google dictionary has this information about the origin of ex Is short for exempli gratia, and is in common use to introduce an example within a sentence Submit a sample of academic writing, e.g., a dissertation chapter However, some authors use ex. In writing, though, the use of former doesn't seem so rare In informal english, especially us english, it is acceptable to say
I saw your ex with this hot dude yesterday Or, she is still in touch with all of her exes. Ex by itself (no hyphen) doesn't seem right either Can each part be hyphenated, or the hyphen dropped altogether Is there another way to make this more clear while still keeping the ex prefix? In legal language i have come across the term ex post facto
Post facto also means after the fact, so it should be sufficient This is commonly used in I was thinking that this sort of anticipatory assimilation in which the voicing from the vowel following the ks makes the gz, also applies when the following sound is a voiced consonant, but it turns out there are too few examples of those to get a good feel for it Could anyone give me an idea of how you would refer to someone who was your friend, but is no longer
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