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Can ‘be it’ be followed by plural?
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Is "get off this station" instead of "get off at this station" not gramatically correct? [closed]
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Origin and usage of "day of"
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Is there a word for repeating the starting syllables of a word before completing it, in song?
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Is there any difference between the idioms "pull the rug from under" and "leave in the lurch"?
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Literary devices and sentence structure in Matthew 7:1 (KJV)
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What is the phrase or expression which has the word ‘finger’ in it and means very easily or quickly
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What is the origin of the phrasal verb “rope into”?
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Is this line correct? [closed]
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Is "this is different than before" valid US English for "this is different from before"? [duplicate]
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How to tell if "which" refers to subject or object of main clause?
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Noun for receiving end of promotion?
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When talking about a year in the past, do you use by, in or before?
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What is the origin of the "once upon a time" idiom as the way to begin a fairy tale?
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Why is "as fit as a fiddle" about being fit and well?
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If 'pre' is previous, 'post' is after, and 'peri' is current, what is "initiation"?
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Is there a more sophisticated way of saying, "I would love to talk about that!"?
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Suitable abstraction for Email and SMS
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commonly used Metaphor, phrase, idiom or colloquialism for people 'who take themselves too seriously' [closed]
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Is "More than one teacher..." singular or plural? [duplicate]
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Difference between "besides", "apart from" and "except for". Prepositions vs adverbials
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What does it mean "It’s raining men"? [closed]
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Make something "have" or make something "to have"?
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Better term than "off label" to describe something used other than as stated
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Use of ‘or’ when it means ‘and’ in negatives [duplicate]
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Definitive way to separate prefixes from roots
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Preposition usage: "Envious at" vs "Envious of"
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Does the word "hovel" have an offensive connotation?
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Meaning and origin of the word "muist"
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Phrase/Word for 'sitting on your toes'
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"beginning" is to "prefix" as "end" is to "suffix" as "middle" is to... what?
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"Broken down by <singular vs. plural>"
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What does the idiomatic phrase "err on the side of" mean?
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"X and Y is" or "X and Y are"? [closed]
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Best word for blunt, honest humor where you say something shocking to get a laugh?
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What does "the reactor core inventory" mean?
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Term for emotion-eater
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Omitting a comma before "aka" and then using a serial comma in the end of a series [closed]
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Is there any difference between "congenial" and "genial"?
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Sound of gnawing a bone [closed]
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What do we call the person who gives a beggar money? [closed]
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Meaning of Jo's dialog in Chapter 16 of Bleak House
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What are the rules of "Having + Verb in third form?"
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Why is there an indefinite article before "London"? [duplicate]
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Meaning of "Matting" (in art)
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Titles that designate female leaders
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A word for the urge to do the opposite [duplicate]
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Origin of "rape and pillage"
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What is the difference between "hallmark" and "trappings"?
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Is there a term that describes someone who both seeks to control and is controlled by something?
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We're square/even/quits in formal speech
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Is there a word for event-based like spatial is for space?
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Inverted commas or italics when you mouth something
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It suffered me a lot or it made me suffer a lot?
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Vocabulary: an event, usually an unplesant one, that might or might not happen
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Who and whom usage in single-word-sentence
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Punctuating a list at the end of a dependent clause?
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Why is “collaborate” not spelled “collabourate” in British English?
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Is it 'an' humiliating, or 'a' humiliating defeat? [duplicate]
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Need a word describing more frequently than monthly, other than semi monthly
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