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Present perfect continuous and “for”

nov 27 at 15:52 MετάEd 13.5k

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British upper-class pronunciation of words like “what” and “when”

pronunciation british-english linguistics

may 17 '11 at 20:22 nohat♦ 35.8k

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Why is most North American speech rhotic?

pronunciation history speech rhotic north-american-english

oct 27 at 0:46 tchrist 36.4k

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“1 out of 100 chickens is” or “1 out of 100 chickens are”?

word-choice grammaticality grammatical-number verb-agreement

sep 18 '11 at 19:23 RegDwighт♦ 45.3k

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Which is the proper spelling: “disfunction” or “dysfunction”?

orthography

jun 26 '12 at 10:20 Matt Эллен 14.3k

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“Real time”, “real-time” or “realtime”

orthography hyphen compounds spacing

mar 6 at 16:42 Community♦ 1

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How would you define “Fluent” level in English?

learning

apr 23 '12 at 4:13 Community♦ 1

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Preposition to use with “concordance”

prepositions word-usage

dec 15 at 9:21 Mechanical snail 814

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What makes a non-native English speaker sound foreign?

linguistics non-native-english

sep 1 '11 at 2:00 Theta30 1,441

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Dropping the subject from sentences

writing-style rhetoric zeugma

dec 1 at 22:56 tchrist 36.4k

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“Dear Professor” vs “Dear Mr”: differences between British and American usage

word-usage british-english letter-writing

apr 12 at 20:13 Mary Hairy 1

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Is there a reference book that lists words by usage or theme?

adjectives adverbs thesaurus cliche

jun 18 '11 at 19:19 Dirk 41

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Etymology of “end up” and “wind up”

etymology verbs phrasal-verbs

dec 11 at 4:39 Zaaman 1

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Origin of “washing up”

etymology idioms

apr 7 '11 at 16:39 Dusty 12k

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Rule on absence of the article “the” with plural nouns

grammar grammatical-number learning articles

may 1 at 21:41 Malvolio 8,126

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Past simple with today

word-choice past-tense present-perfect-tense present-tense

dec 16 '11 at 12:00 RegDwighт♦ 45.3k

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How is “apostrophe s” used here?

apostrophe

dec 17 '11 at 20:08 Mahnax 7,036

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Is “you and I” the subject in this sentence?

pronouns case

jan 17 '12 at 13:54 JSBձոգչ 32.2k

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Does “notified by [date]” include the end date?

meaning-in-context prepositions date

dec 31 at 10:17 RegDwighт♦ 45.3k

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Why is the common meaning of logical terms ('and', 'or') incongruous from that in math?

etymology mathematics

sep 13 '11 at 23:12 Fraser Orr 6,274

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What's with the 'heigth' pandemic?

pronunciation

sep 28 at 20:47 RegDwighт♦ 45.3k

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“Hypothesize” vs “postulate”

writing writing-style

jan 5 '12 at 15:09 Wishwas 97

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Website giving pronunciations of English words recorded in different dialects?

pronunciation dialects accent resources

jan 8 '12 at 17:26 tchrist 36.4k

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“Let's see how can we do this”?

grammaticality inversion

nov 29 '11 at 18:26 John Lawler 35.5k

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Chambers of Commerce?

grammatical-number

oct 14 '10 at 23:55 nohat♦ 35.8k

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Capitalization After Colon

grammar capitalization colon

dec 16 '10 at 21:32 CJM 2,712

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How to correctly use the present perfect tense

grammar verbs tenses

may 17 '11 at 19:17 Kosmonaut 31.3k

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Good and bad - suppletive adjectives

adjectives history linguistics degree-of-comparison suppletive

nov 16 at 7:22 tchrist 36.4k

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Is one more correct: “lucky for me” or “luckily for me”?

word-choice grammaticality adjectives adverbs

nov 3 '11 at 19:57 Daniel δ 32.2k

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HTTP-port or HTTP port?

punctuation hyphen

sep 13 '11 at 12:22 JSBձոգչ 32.2k

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