Skip to main content
English Language & Usage
JEL's user avatar
JEL's user avatar
JEL's user avatar
JEL
  • Member for 9 years, 5 months
  • Last seen more than a month ago
  • Whulge, Salish Sea
Profile Activity
Stats
33,031
reputation
4.0m
reached
606
answers
15
questions
Communities
View all
About

Concise.

Badges
View all badges
4
gold badges
72
silver badges
111
bronze badges
Top tags
View all tags
994
Score
203
Posts
33
Posts %
656
Score
167
Posts
27
Posts %
325
Score
65
Posts
10
Posts %
279
Score
64
Posts
10
Posts %
232
Score
42
Posts
7
Posts %
221
Score
34
Posts
5
Posts %
Top posts
View all questions and answers
answer
129
What do you call a person who uses vulgar words too often?
Aug 21, 2016
answer
70
The intensifier 'pure D': where and when did it originate, and what does the D stand for?
Nov 3, 2016
answer
48
Etymology of Butterfly
Jun 10, 2016
answer
40
Term for doing something little by little?
Jan 21, 2016
answer
36
Is there an English word to describe a group of refrain words composed of two syllables e.g. pera-pera, meaning fluently, iki-iki meaning vividly?
Jan 10, 2016
answer
35
Is "went out like stink, died like a pig" just an unfortunate choice of words?
Aug 11, 2016
answer
34
Why are "muscle cars" called so?
Jan 21, 2016
answer
34
What is a one-word synonym for "religious symbol"?
Mar 4, 2016
answer
28
Mimsy were the Borogoves - why is "mimsy" an adjective?
Nov 8, 2016
answer
27
Idioms similar to "heard it through the grapevine"
Nov 12, 2015
Top Meta posts
9
19
16
Undercutting the old duplicity
14
By "gosh", the etymological hydra's immortal head unburied
14
How reliable is Google Ngram?
13
Does a weak question legitimize a weak answer?
11
Website to see frequency of use of words together
Top network posts
View all network posts
15
Oblique endorsement of violence in display-name
10
Allow sourcing in blockquote markdown
5
How to show that one long line of poetry is only one line
5
“It can be very cold…” vs “It may be very cold…”