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Kekel Posted 19 years ago
Vocabulary

help vs aid

Can someone tell me the difference between HELP and AID and when to use each other?!

thanks a lot
  

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Kekel Can someone tell me the difference between HELP and AID and when to use each other?! thanks a lot There might be some contexts where one would be preferable over the other. Off hand, I'd say they're about the same.

  • Kekel Can someone tell me the difference between HELP and AID and when to use each other?!
  • thanks a lot There might be some contexts where one would be preferable over the other.
  • Off hand, I'd say they're about the same.
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KekelCan someone tell me the difference between HELP and AID and when to use each other?!

thanks a lot
There might be some contexts where one would be preferable over the other. Off hand, I'd say they're about the same.
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Kekel, are you considering HELP and AID as nouns or verbs?

As verbs, they are used differently -- you help someone do something, but you aid someone in doing something.

I think "help" is much more common in conversation -- "Could you help me open this jar?" "Thanks for all your help -- I couldn't have done it without you." I would not use "aid" in either of these examp
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Nothing specific, Khoff. I was just wondering!!

thanks very much, it was very veeeeeeery helpful (not aidful Emotion: big smile)
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Hello,

As to "aid," I was wondering we should use "user aid" or "user aide," which is a kind of guidance for users. Tks!
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Just to mention a context where aid is right and meaningful, and help will be completely exotic: equitation. A rider communicates with his horse by aids, never by "helps".

PS: I came here just searching for exact meaning of English word "aid" for its importance in equitation; Italian ancient term "aiuto" for "aid" in equitation is puzzling, I presume that original significan

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