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| location | Denver, CO | |
| age | 37 | |
| visits | member for | 1 year, 11 months |
| seen | Mar 21 at 16:53 | |
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Jan 4 |
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Would the adjectival form of “on the premises” be on-premise, on premise, or on-premises? shortened title |
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Jan 4 |
asked | Would the adjectival form of “on the premises” be on-premise, on premise, or on-premises? |
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Nov 16 |
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What is the preferred plural form of “bus”? Or the present tense (3rd person) of to bus. |
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Nov 11 |
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What's the difference between “big” and “large”? Big predates large in Middle English: large came over from Norman French. Large is regarded as more formal than big, as are most English words coming from Norman French, because it was the royalty and upper classes that used these words the most while they entered the English language. |
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Nov 7 |
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Is there a word for a change so small that it doesn’t seem to be a change at all? @zano I see. So, not really a common parlance, more like a connotation among some groups of people. |
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Nov 4 |
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Is there a word for a change so small that it doesn’t seem to be a change at all? @zano, can you cite that? I've never seen or heard that parlance. Unless you mean those definitions the way some people might say "government" has come to mean some of those same things. |
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Oct 11 |
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How can I describe someone who changes clothes frequently? Or "changes her clothes to excess." |
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Oct 11 |
answered | The friend who has the same dream |
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Oct 11 |
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Is there a word for a change so small that it doesn’t seem to be a change at all? Homeopathic means, essentially, to treat like with like. Its opposite, allopathic, means to treat with the opposite. The word has nothing to do with the dilution of the curatives, only the philosophical approach to treatment. |
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Oct 11 |
revised |
sylleptic parentheses fixed grammar |
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Oct 11 |
suggested | suggested edit on sylleptic parentheses |
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Aug 26 |
accepted | Difference between “in progress” and “in process” |
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Aug 8 |
answered | What do you call the process immediately after peeing? |
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Aug 8 |
asked | Difference between “in progress” and “in process” |
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Aug 4 |
answered | When writing instructions, is it OK to leave “and” out of a quick chain of commands? |
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Jun 29 |
awarded | Teacher |
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Jun 29 |
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What's the meaning of “he walked away a free man”? @PyroTyger, in that usage, it would be more simply put "he walked." By adding "away" it makes the meaning more vague until we know what was walked away from. So, I don't think "to walk" and "to walk away" are the same sense, but I do believe "to walk" and "to walk away a free man" are much closer in meaning. |
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Jun 29 |
answered | Is this acceptable usage when frustrated with a web page: “It won't click” |
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Jun 9 |
accepted | What do Brits means when they say “perving around”? |
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Jun 9 |
awarded | Supporter |
