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I have a degree in Linguistics, but I work as a programmer. Most of my expertise about English is self-taught, plus lots of random trivia I've acquired here and there.

This is my favorite EL&U comment ever:

This isn't really a question about English so much as a question about hugs. Source

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349 Answers

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201	Did English ever have a formal version of “you”?
75	How many tenses are there in English?
50	When “etc.” is at the end of a phrase, do you place a period after it?
50	Why is “q” followed by a “u”?
48	Why is “bicycle” pronounced differently from other obviously related words?

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+10	What is the origin of the place name “Abbottabad?”
+10	Is “if they would do something” correct English?
+5	Where “summat” came from
+10	Did English ever have a formal version of “you”?

14 Questions

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42	What we've gelost — why doesn't English use the prefix “ge-”?
36	Who is Jesus H. Christ?
33	How did “Jew” become pejorative?
30	What does the phrase “Begging the question” mean?
29	What are the historical processes of preposition coining in English?

187 Tags

435 etymology × 27	271 word-choice × 50
302 grammaticality × 41	254 pronunciation × 22
281 pronouns × 10	233 verbs × 24
275 meaning × 35	219 grammar × 33
274 history × 13	217 vocabulary × 4