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| bio | website | |
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| location | London, UK | |
| age | 38 | |
| visits | member for | 2 years, 6 months |
| seen | Jun 7 '12 at 9:14 | |
| stats | profile views | 48 |
The sun never sets on the British vampire...
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Feb 11 |
answered | Is “ad hominem” gender-neutral? |
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Jan 6 |
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What words are commonly mispronounced by literate people who read them before they heard them? @Atomix: Oh year, Niamh is probably Irish. That would make sense! |
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Jan 4 |
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With who vs. With whom Upvoting Kosmonaut's comment. Your sentence is absolutely correct - but it does sound a lot fussier and more pedantic than people like in modern, idiomatic English... |
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Dec 3 |
answered | Double meaning? |
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Nov 30 |
answered | “Wanting something to happen” |
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Nov 30 |
accepted | Why “ladybird”? |
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Nov 30 |
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BBC: “Man convicted of murdering his girlfriend and their 10-month-old daughter at Winchester Crown Court” Sometimes I think that the BBC staff quite likes trying to sneak little grammatical jokes into the fix. They're pretty good at subversive picture captions, too. |
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Nov 26 |
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What is the difference between “ostensibly” and “probably”? Another upvote for the second of two answers which are much better than the accepted answer! |
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Nov 23 |
awarded | Necromancer |
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Nov 23 |
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Why are some words combined into a single word while others stay as two words? I would have said "anytime" and "sometime" were controversial, also. "My sometime drinking buddy" means my former drinking buddy, but events in the past happened "some time ago". Similarly, I see "any time" a lot more frequently than "anytime", I think. |
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Nov 23 |
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Why does one count MISSISSIPPILY? @Chris, @JohnoBoy: fair enough guys! I come from a culture where if you can make a pretty good, evidentially-based guess at an answer it's considered a worthwhile contribution to a debate (or at least not a serious offence). I couldn't find any hard-and-fast rules in the FAQ about how sure you have to be of your answers, but since it's at least two against one now I'll make sure not to submit mere educated guesses as answers in future :) |
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Nov 23 |
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Why does one count MISSISSIPPILY? deleted 25 characters in body |
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Nov 22 |
awarded | Scholar |
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Nov 22 |
accepted | English letter sequence with most pronunciations |
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Nov 22 |
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Central Pennsylvanian English speakers: what are the limitations on the “needs washed” construction? In British English we say "this car needs washing" and similar phrases a lot - I can't remember if that construction is normal in the US? |
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Nov 22 |
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Why “ladybird”? Interesting... I guess it was a "ladybird" and not a "ladybug" in America too at the time then, and it's only recently that the less whimsical-sounding name has truly taken over. |
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Nov 22 |
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Why does one count MISSISSIPPILY? @Chris Dwyer: what, you'd rather people didn't disclose when they were making an educated guess instead of being 100% absolutely certain of their answer? I'm just trying to build a world where honesty isn't a dirty word. Since (it seems that) my answer was neither misleading nor wrong, I don't really understand the problem you're having. |
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Nov 22 |
asked | Why “ladybird”? |
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Nov 22 |
answered | Why does one count MISSISSIPPILY? |
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Nov 22 |
answered | Is there a difference between “cheers” and “thanks” in colloquial British English? |
