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Full disclosure: I have a degree in linguistics, and so I am partial to descriptivist approaches to questions of usage. For me, assertions of correctness or incorrectness that are not reflective of actual usage are highly questionable.

I am a native speaker of American English.

My real name is David Friedland and my e-mail address is david.friedland@gmail.com. Feel free to contact me directly.

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117	Is there a correct gender-neutral, singular pronoun (“his” versus “her” versus “their”)?
100	When is it appropriate to end a sentence in a preposition?
71	“Email” or “e-mail”?
50	“Less” vs. “fewer”
49	“A/An” preceding a parenthetical statement

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+5	How are 'marry', 'merry', and 'Mary' pronounced differently?
-2	Grammatical complements for “allow”
+10	Is there a correct gender-neutral, singular pronoun (“his” versus “her” versus “their”)?
+10	Regulatory bodies and authoritative dictionaries for English

10 Questions

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31	Should I use a semicolon or a dash to connect two closely related sentences?
26	How are 'marry', 'merry', and 'Mary' pronounced differently?
21	How do you spell Muammar Qaddafi?
16	What is the difference between “lay” and “lie”?
10	What usage arguments are persuasive? [closed]

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679 word-choice × 46	239 possessive × 8
647 grammaticality × 37	229 pronouns × 14
279 pronunciation × 36	223 grammatical-number × 16
277 american-english × 25	216 prepositions × 11
246 orthography × 16	202 contractions × 13

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