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I’m Tom Christiansen, author of Programming Perl and Perl Cookbook from O’Reilly. I’m a freelance instructor giving courses in Perl programming, including Unicode and regular expressions. I’ve been using BSD Unix for 30 years now; like your maid, I don’t do Windows.

I’ve undergraduate degrees in Spanish and in Computer Science, and a graduate degree in compsci focusing on operating systems design and in natural language processing. I’ve studied Spanish, French, Italian, Portuguese, Latin, and German, with a smattering of other languages thrown in. For the last few years I’ve been dabbling in computational linguistics.

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18	Is “penultimate” commonly used?
17	Other word for an empty promise (that is likely not to be held)
13	Ye olde english alphabet question; Are there other letters that got lost than thorn, edh and yogh?
8	Is 'smth' a correct abbreviation in American English?
8	When do I use -i for expressing the plural of a word?

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+30	In the last hundred years and the last time
+18	Use of hyphens when writing repeated compound words that has common parts
+10	“Speak to” vs. “Speak with”
+10	Origin of “to blow your own horn”

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52 single-word-requests × 16	19 british-english × 5
27 pronunciation × 11	16 vocabulary × 6
26 word-choice × 8	16 grammatical-number × 4
24 american-english × 5	14 hyphen × 5
21 etymology × 10	13 synonyms × 4