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Apr 5	awarded	Yearling
Oct 5	revised	Why is “str” sometimes pronounced as “shtr”? fix some OCR errors
Oct 5	suggested	suggested edit on Why is “str” sometimes pronounced as “shtr”?
Sep 24	comment	Phrase to say that something which happened twice already is likely to happen again I heard it as "Once is happenstance, twice coincidence... three times: enemy action." EDIT: Heh, I never knew that, @Robusto. Shows the quote is in the wild disconnected of its origin, I guess.
Aug 31	comment	What to call the best student in a class? Are these terms still used if this tradition was not actually kept (i.e. the person was not actually invited to - or did not actually - give a speech at the commencement ceremony)?
Aug 21	comment	What's the difference between “teeter totter” and “seesaw”? I had the belief that "seesaw" can also refer to a kind of two-seated swing (two seats opposing each other, hung from the middle with a pair of rigid bar that keeps it horizontal), and that teeter-totter cannot, but apparently either word can refer to this as well.
Aug 21	comment	How to describe the phenomenon of “small” people being ignored on the Internet @KitFox pentalemma?
Aug 19	comment	What's the deal with exophoric pronoun references? If "they" refers to the set of all people who say such a thing, is it reflexophoric?
Aug 1	comment	Cheersing vs cheering "I think it comes from a misguided verbification of the exclamation "cheers!", as in the plural of the noun "cheer"." - why 'misguided'?
May 23	comment	Are “traitor” and “trader” pronounced the same? Right, but "everywhere in America" covers a lot that's not GA. And on a global scale, it is regional.
May 23	comment	Are “traitor” and “trader” pronounced the same? @tchrist America is a region. And are you really going to say everywhere?
Apr 25	comment	“All our X” vs. “all of our X” @TecBrat That sort of pedantry is the kind of bloody nonsense up with which I (and probably some others here) will not put.
Apr 25	comment	“All our X” vs. “all of our X” Of course, it goes without saying that X should be plural, unless it is "base".
Apr 18	comment	Why are nicknames called “nicknames”? Are there any cases where an initial "n" is added or dropped for any reason other than this?
Apr 15	comment	What is the noun to refer to the 64- or 32-bit -ness of an operating system I can install a 32-bit OS on a 64-bit machine. - there are only a limited number of processor architectures for which this is true, and this is in the case when the physical machine has support for an earlier processor architecture.
Apr 5	awarded	Yearling
Jan 31	comment	X, Y, Z — horizontal, vertical and …? @GeorgeDuckett Maybe you could designate compass directions to the axes (e.g. north and east). Not a single word answer, but might help inform your variable name choices.
Jan 17	comment	How to say that food is hot (temperature) without the listener thinking that I mean “spicy”? @Jan how do they describe sharp cheddar cheese?
Jan 11	comment	Pronunciation of plural form of words ending in “-th” Is there a minimal pair between /nts/ and /nθs/? If not, I'm not sure it's strictly appropriate to use slashes (indicating phoneme distinction) here, or talk about "would have changed the standard pronunciation" when allophones routinely aren't distinguished.
Jan 10	comment	“Music with rocks in” - British English? The joke isn't the question - an American making the same joke would say "with rocks in it" as the OP said, or some other phrasing like "filled with rocks".