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How do you quote a passage that has used '[sic]' mistakenly?

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What is the origin of ZOMG?

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Is there a correct gender-neutral, singular pronoun (“his” versus “her” versus “their”)?

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“A/An” preceding a parenthetical statement

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How do the tenses in English correspond temporally to one another?

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Is there an accepted rule for naming all of our various distant relatives (Kinship Terms)?

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Why does the common meaning of “impertinent” have nothing to do with “pertinent”?

meaning etymology word-usage

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Why is the right jack in cribbage also called “his Knobs”?

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What's the word for 'online-extrovert-offline-introvert'?

single-word-requests nouns

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