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| bio | website | acleach.me.uk |
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| location | United Kingdom | |
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I'm in the United Kingdom, and I'm interested in (or amazed at) the differences between "British" English and American English.
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reviewed | Reject suggested edit on Is it correct to use this expression in an email: “Attached you may find …”? |
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How do you say the coming week in the weekend? @Kris Yes, MetaEd found it. It's closely related but refers to a specific day (next Tuesday) rather than the whole week. This question on this/next week is arguably easier to interpret. |
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answered | How do you say the coming week in the weekend? |
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Correct usage of Infinitive To here is not an infinitive marker. It's a simple preposition. |
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reviewed | Approve suggested edit on “Flatly denied that he had copied” vs. “flatly denied the charges that he had copied” |
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answered | “…FDA, who…” vs “…FDA, which…” - relative-pronouns of authorities |
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What is there in the English corpus beside nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs, etc? Exactly so: I was agreeing (and have upvoted accordingly). |
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What is there in the English corpus beside nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs, etc? I was just about to comment thus on the question: "It's possible (probable?) that their automated heuristics can't positively identify all words as a particular POS, so they are left as unidentified. (For example, what is unidentified in that sentence?)" |
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Are both ‘Hit a raw nerve’ and ‘Tip sb. the wink” predominantly British English idioms? Ngram for "a raw nerve" shows very little difference. Tip me/us the wink doesn't occur very often in either GB or US books, with US being half the GB figure. That's more likely to be unfamiliar. |
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Do vocal pitch and timbre differ by accent? @MixoLydian Surely they change the pitch of their voice to fit in with the prevailing physiology of their new location rather than their last location. Call that "insecurity" if you like; it could just as well be classed as "survival technique". |
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Do vocal pitch and timbre differ by accent? I'm not convinced it's a dynamic of language. Surely it's principally physiological. Physiology might be an inherited characteristic, which would tend to group similar voices together, but cause and effect is that way round. |
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what does “off-the-shelf” mean? It's even in the dictionary -- just look up shelf. |
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“Make easy” vs. “make it easy” This is probably a question for ELL. However, ask yourself the question "What does Spanish cooking make easy?" The phrase "Spanish cooking makes..." requires an object, which is what is supplied by the dummy it. [It is normally a dummy subject, but here that pronoun fulfils a similar function as an object.] It's also not "The Spanish cooking", but just "Spanish cooking", which is another matter which I'm sure has been mentioned here in a prior question. |
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Is “mainstream” an acceptable verb? added 60 characters in body |
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reviewed | Reject suggested edit on How do you greet multiple recipients in an e-mail? |
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answered | Is “mainstream” an acceptable verb? |
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reviewed | No Action Needed A pejorative term for “unreasonably gregarious” |
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reviewed | Leave Open How would you apply the idiom “I'm $verb'ed out” to “eat”? |
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reviewed | Close Avoiding Ambiguous in combining “Really” and “Always” |
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reviewed | Close Is there any word for people who are strongly against artificial intelligence? |
