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| bio | website | lonesomeday.wordpress.com |
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| location | St. Albans, United Kingdom | |
| age | 24 | |
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Sometimes you can feel proud of SO answers:
- Why should y.innerHTML = x.innerHTML; be avoided?
- Is there any way to check if bubble triggered the click?
- PHP: Convert uncommon date format to timestamp in most efficient manner possible?
Sometimes you can only feel embarrassed at the number of votes they get:
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Apr 18 |
answered | Opposite of “verbose” |
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Feb 14 |
awarded | Notable Question |
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Oct 12 |
comment |
What's proper English for 'experimentee'? Note that "guinea pig" is also permitted when the subjects are in fact guinea pigs. |
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Oct 11 |
awarded | Commentator |
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Oct 11 |
comment |
Friendlier way to express you paid for a person's drink/dinner and expect it to be paid back Yes, "spot" is exactly the word I'd use here. |
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May 2 |
awarded | Yearling |
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Apr 9 |
awarded | Popular Question |
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Feb 1 |
comment |
Why is X used when we pronounce it Z? "… which is pronounced with an initial [ks]" |
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Jan 23 |
comment |
Is there a prefix that indicates that an event recurs four times a year? Quadrennial means "every four years", like biennial means "every two years". Since biannual means "twice a year" (well, according to most people...), you might get away with quadriannual... |
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Nov 28 |
comment |
Use of “separation of church and state” in non-Christian countries "The disestablishment of religion" might well be the useful phrase. |
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Nov 20 |
comment |
Differences between e.g., viz. and i.e. i.e. would be better explained as "that is to say", which is closer to the Latin meaning (id est) |
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Nov 16 |
comment |
What is the preferred plural form of “bus”? "The Motor Bus" may have something to say on the matter. |
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Oct 11 |
awarded | Editor |
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Oct 11 |
revised |
Is there a word for a change so small that it doesn’t seem to be a change at all? added 69 characters in body |
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Oct 11 |
answered | Is there a word for a change so small that it doesn’t seem to be a change at all? |
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Oct 6 |
comment |
A word for a worldly wise person who pretends to be naïve? I agree with @onomatomaniak. I don't like disingenuously naif, but disingenuous naivete works for me. |
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Jul 2 |
awarded | Teacher |
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Jul 1 |
answered | Word for a person who is “in charge”? |
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Apr 19 |
comment |
How do you pronounce the H in “an historian”? @Reg No need to do it humbly -- that's an excellent question to point to. |
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Apr 19 |
accepted | How do you pronounce the H in “an historian”? |
