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Etymologically, how did 'outrage' get 're-analyzed'?

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Meaning of "teen" in Aeschylus's play "The Persians"

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How to talk about two different counts

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Is "There danced a man in the hall" a grammatical alternative to "A man danced in the hall"? What verbs are possible here? [duplicate]

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How common is 'rider' in the sense '[a]n amendment or addition to an entertainer's performance contract'?

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Is the noun modifier "among them a portable anti-tank rocket and a wheel-mounted recoilless rifle" an appositive or absolute phrase?

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What does “turn down an empty plate” mean?

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Is "all showing that the weapons were being used by the Free Syrian Army" an absolute?

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Origin of the idiom "a few trombones short of a marching band"

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What grammar construction is preventing the highlighted section from committing a "run on sentence" error?

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Is the term "Hot dog" a misnomer? If not, then what makes a term a misnomer?

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"That clause" with "subject + verb" replaced by an infinitive

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Is there a word for something that was formerly a social norm but is no longer acceptable?

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Why is 'women' sometimes pronounced as 'woman'?

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'as he had lived'

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Galloping incompetence & galloping ineptitude

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Synonym for free or costless where non-monetised exchange is involved

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How did "phenomenal" come to mean "extraordinary"?

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When and where did 'hospice' in the sense of 'palliative care facility or program for the terminally ill' originate in English?

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What's the rule for singular vs plural in "A number of parameters is/are"? [duplicate]

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The meaning of "The paradox of courage is that a man must be a little careless of his life even in order to keep it." — G. K. Chesterton

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Use singular or plural when speaking about multiple total counts

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Is 'where' accurate here, or is 'with' accurate? [closed]

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Is this a poorly constructed sentence? [closed]

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What is the meaning of "partial cloaks"

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"See also" vs. "Also see" as a heading

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Words that you cannot use intensifiers with

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Trying to understand how to connect phrases/clauses with commas

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What's the word for when two worlds coexist in the same space simultaneously but one is hidden or veiled from the other?

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Can any member in this group kindly explain to me the meaning of 'Storying' in the context of narrative qualitative ethnographic research? [closed]

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Pronunciation difference b/w Python and Pyramid

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Is there a commonly used root for "Inclusion" and "Exclusion", or some way to specify the status of being "Included" or "Excluded"? [duplicate]

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Do I need to repeat the subject after a semicolon splitting two sentences that have the same subject in formal written English?

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What's meant by ". . . he went the pace extraordinary"? (go the pace ?) [migrated]

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Easier said than done vs. Easier to say than do

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Which preposition is correct to use in "to conjugate __ 3rd Person Singular"?

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Connotation of "for" / "for the"

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One word for the noise that ships make when approaching a port [closed]

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What do you call the person or character being spoken to in a poem or song?

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Conditional structure – “hadn't have gone”? “hadn't have met”? [duplicate]

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why is it a noun phrase and not an adjective phrase? [closed]

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Another phrase for "he is a very easy person to scare"? [duplicate]

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Meaning of "these thin boards divided the secret" [closed]

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What is a word for a bad thing that is so common that it is mostly ignored? [closed]

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Growing calls, calls have grown

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Is this grammar correct? "New rules are adhere to" [migrated]

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A single word that describes or connotes all items in a list except the last item

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"by validating" - missing direct object?


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