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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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273 Answers

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85	Is there a correct gender-neutral, singular pronoun (“his” versus “her” versus “their”)?
79	When is it appropriate to end a sentence in a preposition?
60	“Email” or “e-mail”?
43	Why do some words have two past tense forms (e.g. “dreamed” vs. “dreamt”)?
42	“A/An” preceding a parenthetical statement

29,786 Reputation

+10	When do I use “I” instead of “me?”
+10	Is there a correct gender-neutral, singular pronoun (“his” versus “her” versus “their”)?
+30	When is it appropriate to end a sentence in a preposition?
+10	“A/An” preceding a parenthetical statement

6 Questions

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27	Should I use a semicolon or a dash to connect two closely related sentences?
19	How do you spell Muammar Qaddafi?
12	What is the difference between “lay” and “lie”?
9	What usage arguments are persuasive? [closed]
7	What does “akin to” mean in etymologies in dictionary entries?

165 Tags

537 word-choice × 42	219 pronunciation × 26
513 grammaticality × 35	195 grammatical-number × 16
244 pronouns × 13	166 prepositions × 9
237 grammar × 27	162 contractions × 13
232 american-english × 21	138 orthography × 12