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| age | 41 | |
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Dec 11 |
awarded | Quorum |
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Dec 4 |
awarded | Nice Question |
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Dec 3 |
accepted | Is there a word or phrase for the feeling you get after looking at a word for too long? |
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Dec 3 |
asked | Is there a word or phrase for the feeling you get after looking at a word for too long? |
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Nov 24 |
awarded | Nice Question |
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Nov 14 |
answered | “You both ordered drinks” or“ You both ordered a drink” |
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Nov 14 |
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Is “Stick no bills” correct English? I've never heard "stick no bills." The phrase I'm used to is "post no bills." Is this a regionalism? (I'm from Northern California, USA.) |
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Nov 5 |
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Is it a splice comma if an interjection-phrase is involved? @Jon: "You're welcome" doesn't sound like an interjection to me - it sounds like a complete thought. (Yes, an interjection can be a complete thought, but "you're welcome" doesn't have that staccato, bursty, interjectiony feel.) I'd use a period there. |
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Nov 5 |
answered | When does the time window start for the term “due”? |
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Nov 2 |
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What is etymology of the term “right up the Wazoo”? The existence of Wazoo, Washington probably has no more to do with the phrase origin than Hell, Michigan has to do with any hell-related phrases. |
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Nov 2 |
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What words are commonly mispronounced by literate people who read them before they heard them? I have a co-worker who pronounces it "suede-o." |
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Nov 2 |
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formation of comparisons @Kosmo: your new example works for me. I'm off to ponder why "prone" doesn't work that way in my head. |
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Nov 2 |
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formation of comparisons @Kosmo - I now understand the distinction you were making -- you clarified that well. I'm not sure, though, that sentence (1) above means that men are prone more often. If I read that sentence, I would take the "more" as meaning "to a greater degree" -- the "higher susceptibility" definition. |
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Nov 2 |
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formation of comparisons I'm not sure what the difference between "higher susceptibility" and "susceptible...more often" is. |
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Nov 2 |
answered | wait vs wait up, fall vs. fall down |
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Nov 2 |
answered | When does the time window start for the term “due”? |
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Nov 2 |
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Pronunciation of “of” I tried saying it at a more normal speed and still ended up with "A horse is a horse, ov course, ov course." And now I have a different problem: english.stackexchange.com/questions/810 |
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Oct 29 |
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Why are baseball statistics called “sabermetrics”? I used to see it often as SABRmetrics. |
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Oct 29 |
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“To service” vs. “to serve” "Servicing" is also what a prostitute does to/for a client. It's why I get a little wary any time a business I patronize refers to "servicing" its customers. |
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Oct 27 |
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What punctuation is this sentence missing? The context of the question was its meaning as buttocks. I don't believe anyone uses "arse" to mean a donkey (though this site has taught me not to be sure about any of my beliefs about usage). |
