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Martha F.

Member for 13 years, 8 months
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New Jersey

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11 votes

What is the word for "understandable by specific group"?

answered Mar 26, 2011 at 16:12

9 votes

Should I put a comma before the last item in a list?

answered Aug 12, 2010 at 19:08

9 votes

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How do I ask for advice politely?

answered Sep 26, 2010 at 17:53

9 votes

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Are there any archaic words in older strands of English that approximate the modern term "badass"?

answered Mar 25, 2011 at 16:15

8 votes

Favourite untranslatables

answered Aug 12, 2010 at 19:19

7 votes

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How might I name the items of a Likert scale?

answered Mar 28, 2011 at 13:18

7 votes

When and why did the em-dash and the hyphen supplant the semicolon?

answered Apr 17, 2011 at 14:46

5 votes

What do you call the word used in prose to describe the surroundings to make prose richer?

answered Aug 13, 2010 at 17:34

4 votes

What is the best salutation to use in cover letter when I don't have contact information?

answered Sep 26, 2010 at 18:10

3 votes

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Can you rephrase this sentence (about storing files)?

answered Mar 27, 2011 at 14:12

3 votes

One word to mean “the proper way of doing things”

answered May 11, 2011 at 23:53

2 votes

What does it mean to use a single quote to abbreviate things?

answered May 11, 2011 at 23:44

1 vote

What is a good phrase to name a periodic excellent employee award?

answered Apr 21, 2011 at 4:14

0 votes

Which is the word that means neither "believer" nor "atheist" but somewhere in between?

answered Oct 31, 2011 at 14:14

0 votes

Word describing the reversal of emotions

answered Apr 12, 2011 at 3:16