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Every day is a school day!
For some reason this question (from Oct 2010) has more recently been deleted but was still available on stackprinter.com. I had the accepted answer and was looking high and low for it to use as reference on another question.
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Feb 25 |
awarded | Yearling |
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Feb 25 |
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Are “unestimated” and/or “non-estimated” correct English?either "estimated" nor "not estimated" - shouldn't that be "or", not "nor"? |
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Feb 10 |
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Too many “and”s? Is it grammatically correct? @BillFranke: I'm curious, which search engine suggests "career" when searching for "carer"? Having tried both google.co.uk (which I wouldn't have expected the suggestion) and google.com, even when logged out in incognito mode I cannot trigger this suggestion? |
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Feb 10 |
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Too many “and”s? Is it grammatically correct? @DavidSchwartz: Isn't "carer" or "caregiver" dependent on the locale? In the UK, "carer" is correct. According to my (British) English Dictionary, "caregiver" is a North American term? |
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Feb 4 |
awarded | Analytical |
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Feb 4 |
awarded | Custodian |
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Feb 4 |
reviewed | Satisfactory I am “friends” with John, then John is “x” to me |
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Feb 4 |
awarded | Informed |
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Dec 20 |
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Verb agreement in “Where is the Messiah and his Kingdom?” "Where is ..." sounds better to me! |
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Nov 29 |
answered | What's an easy way to remember when to use “affect” or “effect”? |
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Oct 23 |
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What to call the executor of an action? Maybe "Controller"? |
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Oct 18 |
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What is the abbreviation for “state”? @Henry: Well, it could be. Abbreviations can sometimes introduce ambiguity. |
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Oct 18 |
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What is the abbreviation for “state”? But isn't a period required in order to indicate that it is an abbreviation? My Oxford Dictionary of Abbreviations lists "st." as an accepted abbreviation for "state". |
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Sep 16 |
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Should emoticons be regarded as punctuation marks? @user13107: I'm curious as to why you think that statement needs justifying? Have you seen evidence to the contrary?! |
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Sep 16 |
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Is a smiley at the end of a sentence like a period? @alcas Which is why it's a "style choice". Personally, I don't see smileys as replacing periods - that looks odd to me! :) IMO the period should appear before the smiley (never after it, as that corrupts the smiley and is potentially wrong anyway). |
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Sep 16 |
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Is a smiley at the end of a sentence like a period? ... or even before the smiley. |
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Sep 9 |
awarded | Nice Answer |
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Sep 7 |
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Is “I'm screwed” a rude expression? "I'm screwed" isn't simply used when someone has made a mistake. I take it to mean more, "I'm in trouble" with little hope of it being resolved. The person who failed at their task might get in trouble because of it. They are screwed. |
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Sep 6 |
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What's the meaning of the word “tad”? FWIW, I use "a tad" all the time in spoken English (probably too much). I think of it as slang. It is certainly not formal. I never use tad and bit together. @Jim "It's tad" -> "It's a tad". |
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Sep 5 |
revised |
Live on different time zones vs. Live in different time zones Changed "would" to "could" |
