SevenSidedDie

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Canadian, native English speaker, background in academic linguistics, lifelong reader, and language enthusiast.

In the prescriptive versus descriptive grammar debate, I'm mostly descriptivist but with an appreciation for the prescriptivist idea that something being "popular" usage doesn't mean it's correct.

	1,355 reputation	bio	website	d7.pipemaze.com	visits	member for	2 years, 7 months
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27	Is “Englishnization” an acceptable term?
20	Term for easing up sails in a heavy storm
13	Chainsaw-equipped or chainsaw equipped?
8	“She did not report for work” vs. “she did not report to work”
8	Is an ellipsis a distinct punctuation mark?

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+10	What is the origin of the term “ginger” for red-headed people?
+10	Is there any rhyme or reason to when one should double the last consonant when adding -ed or -ing?
+10	Chainsaw-equipped or chainsaw equipped?
+10	Term for easing up sails in a heavy storm

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32 suffixes × 2	20 adjectives × 2
27 single-word-requests × 4	20 terminology
27 neologisms	15 grammar × 2
27 morphology	13 hyphen
20 orthography × 3	13 modifiers

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