POPI Act

billion One thousand million

Blackboard Proper noun, starts with upper case in reference to the online teaching resource

If in reference to the classroom writing aid, “blackboard” is written in lower case bored, boring “Bored”, adjective, means to feel weary and impatient because one is unoccupied or lacks interest in one’s current activity. The normal construction for bored is “bored by” or “bored with”.

“Boring”, adjective, means something or someone is not interesting or exciting borrow, lend You borrow from a person

You lend to a person bullet point A bullet point is a punctuation mark that is used to create bulleted lists. Note spelling of “bulleted”.

burnt

bus See 3.7 Lists: Bulleted; Numbered “Burnt”, verb, past tense of “burn”, used in British English, as opposed to “burned” (American English) Plural is “buses”

calendar Note spelling

campus Plural is “campuses”

See also note to CPUT campuses on page 3 of this Guide can, may “Can” is a statement of a person’s innate/physical ability, e.g. “I can write the exam today.”

“May” means that permission has been granted for something to be done, e.g. “I may write the exam because I have completed all the required modules.”

“May” is also used to express possibility, e.g. “They may write the exam on Tuesday if the lecturer is back from leave by then.”