The Raven

less info
meta site favicon meta user | stack exchange network profile network profile
8,810 reputation
1331
bio website
location
age
visits member for 2 years, 3 months
seen Mar 1 '12 at 18:20
stats profile views 434

Professional editor with expertise in etymology, lexicography, and dictionary construction. I specialize in American vocabulary and usage circa 1925-1965, which I consider to be a period of exceptional quality in American literature.


147 Tags

name votes
126
word-choice × 32
27
antonyms × 5
16
numbers × 3
12
adverbs × 6
118
meaning × 30
25
expressions × 9
16
gender × 2
12
slang × 3
114
single-word-requests × 33
24
phrase-requests × 7
16
salutation
12
formality × 3
83
etymology × 24
23
american-english × 8
16
greetings
12
hyphen × 2
73
differences × 11
19
email × 2
15
orthography × 8
12
collective-nouns
55
adjectives × 14
18
prepositions × 5
15
grammaticality × 7
12
word-formation
49
meaning-in-context × 5
18
style × 4
15
verbs × 5
12
taxonomy
44
idioms × 15
18
sentence × 3
15
parentheses × 4
11
proverbs × 2
39
phrases × 10
18
politeness × 2
15
vocabulary × 3
10
onomatopoeia
37
punctuation × 16
17
grammar × 6
15
acronyms × 2
9
short-form
30
pronunciation × 12
17
word-usage × 5
15
technology
8
synonyms × 8
29
nouns × 9
17
redundancy
14
writing × 6
8
pronouns × 4
28
writing-style × 5
16
grammatical-number × 6
14
british-english × 5
8
latin × 3
1 2 3