FumbleFingers

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I did my degree in English/French Language/Linguistics back in the '70s, but I only got a middling grade, and I've worked in software development ever since, so I'm really only an expert on English language in the same way any articulate native speaker is.

To save the trouble of repeatedly doing it on individual posts, I'll just say here that I don't come to EL&U looking for arguments. If I come across as contentious that will nearly always be inadvertent carelessness on my part.

Anyway - if you have been, thanks for reading.

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80	Is there a word for a change so small that it doesn’t seem to be a change at all?
69	Is the term 'String' too jargony to use in a user interface?
59	Phrase for overusing just-learned skills?
56	Flora, fauna, robot
53	“Man” is to “womanizer” as “woman” is to what?

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+50	“Common to” OR “Common in”
+10	Where does the phrase “dry run” come from?
+10	Opposite of 'Midas touch'?
+10	“Arrogant” vs. “conceited”

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49	How small does a land-mass have to be before you live “on” it, rather than “in” it?
33	What exactly is an “adverb”?
24	Why is “hard water” and “soft water” so called?
22	Why is it usually “friend of his”, but no possessive apostrophe with “friend of Peter”?
20	Pronunciation of “have” in “I don't have to” [do something]

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