User Andrew Leach - English Language & Usage Stack Exchange

Andrew Leach

Moderator

Member for 11 years, 7 months
Last seen this week

Twitter
acleach.me.uk
United Kingdom

1,620 Answers

Score Activity Newest

15 votes

Rules for three sets of quotation marks

answered May 13, 2014 at 14:25

15 votes

Accepted

Can I use "lest" in the following sentence?

answered Jan 10, 2015 at 16:46

15 votes

What do you call the wooden bridge-like structures that make up a harbor?

answered Apr 10, 2015 at 11:56

15 votes

A word relating to sad emotional drunkenness

answered Jul 5, 2015 at 9:13

14 votes

Accepted

What is the meaning of "blinkers on and a case of Red Bull"?

answered Jan 9, 2013 at 10:59

14 votes

Why are "hard water" and "soft water" so called?

answered Feb 12, 2013 at 22:15

14 votes

What is the name of the truck shown in this picture?

answered Oct 20, 2012 at 12:52

14 votes

Accepted

A word that refers to spilling or splashing of ink?

answered Oct 22, 2012 at 12:59

14 votes

Accepted

Is "tri-quarterly" a real English word meaning 3 times a year?

answered Sep 22, 2012 at 18:59

14 votes

"beauty of a Bright Eyes"

answered Aug 3, 2016 at 9:58

14 votes

Accepted

What is the meaning of "barnet front"?

answered Nov 12, 2016 at 11:16

14 votes

What's the word for having the same distance to neighbours?

answered Apr 7, 2016 at 9:14

14 votes

Hypernym of “move” and “copy”

answered Sep 22, 2014 at 22:05

14 votes

Word/phrase for "the one that brings bad luck" (e.g. to a group)

answered Oct 21, 2014 at 7:43

14 votes

Accepted

Is there a word for the decoration on top of a building?

answered Aug 12, 2014 at 8:20

14 votes

Accepted

Is there a word for "without any reason" but a more formal one

answered May 19, 2014 at 20:31

14 votes

Accepted

What's the origin of "qu" in the word "masquerade"?

answered Mar 17, 2014 at 8:59

14 votes

Accepted

What is the noun form of "erratic"?

answered Oct 14, 2013 at 14:40

14 votes

abbreviation of units of measure: 'hours' vs. 'minutes'

answered Sep 3, 2013 at 13:14

14 votes

Accepted

Should I capitalize the word 'Web' in this sentence?

answered Jul 30, 2013 at 12:20

13 votes

Accepted

"Glaringly obvious" vs. "blaringly obvious"

answered Oct 8, 2012 at 15:36

13 votes

Usage of "brook" to mean "burp"?

answered Jun 27, 2012 at 15:52

13 votes

Accepted

Use of "The better"?

answered Jul 2, 2012 at 12:09

13 votes

Accepted

One word for "any time after this moment"

answered Jul 19, 2012 at 19:53

13 votes

Why past tense in 'I got this'?

answered May 13, 2012 at 10:04

13 votes

Covering cars or vans with advertisement images, what is this called?

answered Mar 6, 2013 at 19:07

13 votes

Is there a term for grammatical mistakes as a result of trying too hard?

answered Jan 31, 2013 at 15:50

13 votes

Idiom / expression for someone who forgets their roots on achieving success

answered Jul 30, 2013 at 10:17

13 votes

Accepted

What does “mensa” mean?

answered Sep 3, 2013 at 16:16

13 votes

What do you call an old-fashioned poster pole?

answered Oct 14, 2013 at 18:04

…

3 4

5

6 7

…