Google dictionary has this information about the origin of ex Ex's and oh's a play off the xo (hugs and kisses) Is short for exempli gratia, and is in common use to introduce an example within a sentence
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Submit a sample of academic writing, e.g., a dissertation chapter
However, some authors use ex.
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 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. In legal language i have come across the term ex post facto
Isn't ex redundant in this phrase
Post facto also means after the fact, so it should be sufficient This is commonly used in The expression originated as 'deus ex machina' from a latin translation as shown below and its modern meaning refer to a literary/artistic device used to solve apparently irresolvable situations ( as if by divine intervention). 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
