This bag-equipped vacuum cleaner from Riccar weighs just 9 pounds--an important feature because uprights must be dragged back and forth on carpeting and can be difficult to maneuver on stairs. This ...
This Riccar 20-pound upright vacuum cleaner is bag-equipped, with an easy on/off switch and a relatively long 35-foot, non-retractable cord. It has a full-bag indicator, HEPA filtration, manual ...
About This bag-equipped vacuum cleaner from Riccar weighs just 9 pounds--an important feature because uprights must be dragged back and forth on carpeting and can be difficult to maneuver on stairs.
This 27-pound Riccar comes with suction control for reducing the flow of air when cleaning lighter things such as curtains. The bag-equipped canister has a 27-foot, retractable cord and comes with ...
I noticed Robin Michael, who is on this site, stated she learned to spell the word 'vacuum' as "vacumn". I was also taught the same thing in school around 40 years ago; I always scored the
+1 It seems that vacuum is the odd word out when placed in a lineup with (for example) continuum, individuum, menstruum, and residuum. I don't know why the -uum in vacuum came to be pronounced differently from the -uum in the others, but to judge from the pronunciation offered in John Walker's A Critical Pronouncing Dictionary, and Expositor of the English Language (1807), 'twas not always thus.
(In a vacuum, “Am I not?” could only be construed as some sort of philosophical counter-Descartian pondering.) In light of this dependence, the comma is more apt then the semicolon.
If a 'vacuum cleaner cleaner' is a machine for cleaning vacuum cleaners, then the person who cleans the vacuum cleaner cleaner would be a 'vacuum cleaner cleaner cleaner'.