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| bio | website | onestop.co.uk |
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| location | United Kingdom | |
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| visits | member for | 2 years, 5 months |
| seen | Jul 21 '12 at 12:59 | |
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Medical statistician currently based in the UK. Active mainly on stats.stackexchange.com, also known as CrossValidated, but with occasional forays onto other stackexchange sites.
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Dec 8 |
awarded | Yearling |
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May 3 |
answered | 'I got a dream' vs. 'I dreamt' |
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Dec 8 |
awarded | Yearling |
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Nov 30 |
awarded | Good Answer |
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Nov 23 |
awarded | Nice Answer |
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Nov 22 |
answered | Can “thanks in advance” be considered rude? |
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Apr 9 |
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Is there a single word for “one who speaks/boasts a lot about everything”? +1 for 'braggart', which is the word that came to my mind too. 'know-it-all' seems more specific to knowledge rather than skills. I think 'blow-hard' should be marked "mainly US" - I've never heard of it in the UK, and i think it could easily be completely misunderstood... |
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Apr 4 |
comment |
Use of the term “maths” Duplicate of english.stackexchange.com/questions/990/math-or-maths |
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Mar 13 |
answered | Heavy usage of synonyms in English or not? |
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Mar 12 |
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What's the most appropriate name for non-italicized text: “roman” or “upright”? No, but in some typefaces the italic face is upright i.e. they are cursive but not slanted, so 'italic' and 'upright' can't be antonyms, else 'upright italic' would be an oxymoron, which it isn't. |
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Mar 12 |
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“It would not do to confuse the nurses with the patients” (+1) I'd add that this phrase does sound rather dated now in spoken English. It sounds like the vocabulary of a character in an Agatha Christie or PG Wodehouse country house novel, rather than contemporary British English. "Come come, old chap, it simply would not do!" |
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Mar 12 |
answered | Is “below par” good or bad? |
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Mar 12 |
awarded | Editor |
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Mar 12 |
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What's the most appropriate name for non-italicized text: “roman” or “upright”? typography |
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Mar 12 |
answered | What's the most appropriate name for non-italicized text: “roman” or “upright”? |
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Mar 10 |
awarded | Citizen Patrol |
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Feb 26 |
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“on the train” or “in the train”? That appears to make it more logical. However, I've got off the train and now I'm on the bus. |
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Feb 26 |
awarded | Teacher |
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Feb 26 |
answered | “on the train” or “in the train”? |
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Feb 26 |
answered | What is the common name for brackets, braces, and parentheses? |
