Barrie England

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I am an Oxford graduate in English Language and Literature and am qualified as a teacher of English to foreign learners. I have spent most of my career in government service, much of it abroad. I have studied several other languages including French, German, Latin, Arabic and Old and Middle English.

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Elsewhere on the web I have attempted to write in the constrained style of the 'Ouvroir de littérature potentielle' (OULIPO) in Variations on an Incident in Paris and in Variations on Jane Austen. I have also created a full set of 256 Syllogisms by figure and mood and showing which are valid and which are not.

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45	What does “c'tee” mean?
38	Are contractions of “I am” or “I would” rude?
34	“Username”, “user name” or “user-name”
30	Why is 'sheep' the same when talking about one or more than one?
28	“Bad with something” or “bad at something”?

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5	Pronouns: a word class or a subclass of nouns?

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565 word-choice × 141	274 single-word-requests × 78
429 meaning × 121	212 prepositions × 55
314 grammaticality × 88	208 phrases × 65
310 etymology × 73	208 differences × 59
290 verbs × 71	195 grammatical-number × 47