Timeline for how to distinguish "cost" from "price"
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| Jun 16, 2020 at 9:11 | history | edited | CommunityBot |
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| S Jul 28, 2015 at 21:15 | history | bounty ended | CommunityBot | ||
| S Jul 28, 2015 at 21:15 | history | notice removed | CommunityBot | ||
| Jul 26, 2015 at 23:47 | answer | added | chasly - supports Monica | timeline score: 0 | |
| Jul 26, 2015 at 19:45 | comment | added | M.A.R. | @Nima The bounty is going to end in less than a day. I suggest you award it to the person who deserves it. People have invested time in answering your question, and it'd be rude not to say "thanks". Which means, you'd drive away answerers from answering your question if you disappoint them. | |
| Jul 26, 2015 at 15:27 | comment | added | jimsug | @snailboat that rollback meant that my answer no longer answered the question, which I've addressed, but was very confusing, | |
| Jul 26, 2015 at 14:40 | answer | added | LawrenceC | timeline score: 0 | |
| Jul 23, 2015 at 20:07 | comment | added | user230 | I rolled back the question. You may not alter your question in ways that invalidate existing answers. If you need to ask something else, please ask a new question. | |
| Jul 23, 2015 at 20:04 | history | rollback | user230 |
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| Jul 23, 2015 at 10:47 | answer | added | Maulik V | timeline score: 0 | |
| Jul 23, 2015 at 8:43 | comment | added | Catija | Please stop editing/adding to your question. By doing so, you are invalidating your answers. If you have a new question, ask a new question. | |
| Jul 23, 2015 at 8:16 | history | edited | nima | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jul 22, 2015 at 15:40 | answer | added | Man_From_India | timeline score: 0 | |
| Jul 22, 2015 at 4:57 | history | edited | rogermue |
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| Jul 22, 2015 at 0:13 | answer | added | jimsug | timeline score: 2 | |
| Jul 20, 2015 at 21:52 | answer | added | Anixx | timeline score: 1 | |
| Jul 20, 2015 at 20:45 | comment | added | Catija | @akedrou What you say is quite true... I was in the process of adding a similar statement to my answer as you posted this. | |
| Jul 20, 2015 at 20:33 | comment | added | akedrou | @Catija answers this update already in his answer... "The price of moving house" is a bit odd because you are asking for a price of something that is not specific. If a moving company just had a list of prices and one of them was "moving house", then that would make sense, but moving companies typically will charge based on some combination of distance, amount of stuff to move, time taken, and people working. "What was the price of your moving house?" works just fine though (because you have a concrete number). What do you think is missing? | |
| Jul 20, 2015 at 20:23 | comment | added | Catija | You're realistically asking an entirely different question now... You'd be better served asking a new question than continuing to add to this one. | |
| Jul 20, 2015 at 20:03 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/#!/StackEnglishLL/status/623221820636925952 | ||
| S Jul 20, 2015 at 19:41 | history | bounty started | nima | ||
| S Jul 20, 2015 at 19:41 | history | notice added | nima | Improve details | |
| Jul 19, 2015 at 16:22 | history | edited | nima | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jul 19, 2015 at 7:39 | comment | added | Brian Hitchcock | Arrowfar: 1) the OP did not ask whether sentence A was OK. 2) ngram search is irrelevant here; there is no question whether the phrasing is valid or common; the question is which one means what OP intended. 3) Your link for 'price vs cost' , though interesting (and true so far as it goes) is from a company's promotional material—hardly an authoritative source. I appreciate that you are trying to be helpful, but your arrow went far from that mark. | |
| Jul 18, 2015 at 23:55 | comment | added | Catija | I specifically say in my answer that I would not use the price option in this case... I'm pretty sure that answers your new question. | |
| Jul 18, 2015 at 20:21 | history | edited | nima | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jul 18, 2015 at 20:14 | history | edited | nima | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jul 18, 2015 at 20:00 | comment | added | user6200 | Yes "Sentence A" looks good. Here is a search from Ngram. Also search the difference between "cost" and "price". | |
| Jul 18, 2015 at 19:45 | answer | added | Catija | timeline score: 13 | |
| Jul 18, 2015 at 19:42 | history | edited | user230 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jul 18, 2015 at 19:25 | history | asked | nima | CC BY-SA 3.0 |