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Did English ever have a word for 'yes' for negative questions?
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Which variant of English should I use when my target audience is the world?
37
How can I write out 1.5?
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“Unselect” or “Deselect”?
28
How to answer a negative question without ambiguity?
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What is the difference between “maybe” and “may be”?
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What does “proverbial man with a hammer” mean in this context?
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A non-straight route
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What's the difference between “puberty” and “adolescence”?
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What's the difference between “null” and “void” in legal language?
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Origin of “rub someone the wrong way”
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How should I phrase a question that must be answered with an ordinal number (e.g., the third prime)?
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What is the name for this “…” punctuation?
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What's the difference between “FWIW” and “IMHO”?
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“He recommended that they are separated” - is this valid?
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Did the underscore character exist before modern computers?
15
What is a word in English that means “able to learn new things quickly”?
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Do we say and write 21 / 31 / 41 item or itemS?
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Does “to err on the side of … ” indicate wrongdoing?
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Gender-independent replacement for “fiancée” and “fiancé”
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What are the metaphorical ways to say that someone has died?
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Is there a grammatical rule for using “read” between parentheses?
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Should rhetorical questions end with a period?
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Is “should” ever used as past tense of “shall”?
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Why (and since when) is prostitution called “the world's oldest profession”?
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That which comes before the “sequel”
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Why do non-native English users often spell “standard” as “standart”?
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“Extirpation” vs “Perdition” vs “Smash”
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What's a word for “widespread,” but not so wide?
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Correct usage of “parallel” versus “in parallel” versus “parallelly”
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