English Language & Usage

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Sentence grammar usage "as"
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A word for a state that changes regularly and consistently
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Word or phrase for an idea that is good in theory but not practice
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Does "keep one's cool" come from Beat slang?
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Specialized or Specialist
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Does anyone know the origin of the name "dear-joy" (used, often perjoratively, by English people to denominate the Irish in the 18th century)?
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What does the expression "He went white ribbon when I was ten" mean?
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Why does the police use "K-9 Unit" instead of "dog"?
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Can "Mr", "Mrs", etc. be used with a first name?
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Where should I position the correlating conjunction relative to the infinitive?
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need an idiom or phrase that means that the same event resulted (or results) in contrasting outcomes for 2 different inividuals
Awarded May 25 at 0:35
What pronouns to use in technical documentation
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What does it mean for RFC 3339 to be "a profile of" ISO 8601?
Awarded May 24 at 13:05
How did 'whale' semantically shift to mean manipulator of stock market prices?
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What does the idiomatic phrase "err on the side of" mean?
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How to write a list of items, where the last item is a compound item?
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Single word for writing from left to right or the reverse
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Is "stepmother treatment" Indian English?
Awarded May 22 at 21:42
Adjective for consensus
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What does the idiomatic phrase "err on the side of" mean?
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What's the Meaning of Opposing?
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Hypernym: Word that means 'window' or 'door'
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Confusing use of 'to' preposition
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Patient vs. subject in clinical research
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Word for count of undesirable events
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Is there a word for being completely drained of breath?
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Can confronting be used as an adjective?
Awarded May 17 at 21:18
AS vs WHILE are they interchangeable?
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Alternative for huckster
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You know me best X You know me better
Awarded May 16 at 16:22
What's the grammatical logic of emphatic phrases like "I do eat sushi"?
Awarded May 15 at 5:55
Job title of a person who checks invitations at a gala function such as a ball.
Awarded May 15 at 0:47
In the phrase: "She swallowed her words", what literary device is being used?
Awarded May 13 at 16:11
What do you call the university or school people graduated from in one word or phrase?
Awarded May 13 at 6:32
Why are typewriter keys referred to as “stops”, especially when compared to organ stops?
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Origin of slang "doing a bid" for prison time?
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What do you call it when someone points with their eyes?
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A word for a temporary job position?
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Are "close" and "open" verbs or adjectives?
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What does "the dog who caught the car" mean?
Awarded May 10 at 17:36
What's the difference between "colloquium", "seminar", and possibly other such words?
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Is it common for native English speakers to confuse "18th century" with "the 1800s"?
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Not always commas with "respectively"?
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Is it common for native English speakers to confuse "18th century" with "the 1800s"?
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Is it common for native English speakers to confuse "18th century" with "the 1800s"?
Awarded May 7 at 1:13
What’s the meaning of “an entire art where the tester uses many means to discover the worth”?
Awarded May 6 at 18:51
Answering "I don't have a criminal background"
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Any word for "made by combining parts of many things"?
Awarded May 4 at 23:58
Why does English omit diacritics on foreign names?
Awarded May 4 at 19:42
'No turn unstoned' - what's this called?
Awarded May 4 at 16:05
Is "these ones" correct?
Awarded May 3 at 23:26
In Singaporean English, what does the phrase 'Ok, Ken' mean?
Awarded May 3 at 12:05
Is this "upspeak" or something else?
Awarded May 2 at 9:55
Terms for aerial versus ground surface area
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Terms for aerial versus ground surface area
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Froth, foam, lather or suds?
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