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Experts on ELU assure us that there is no subjunctive mood in English. How should we who have been mistaught refer to what we were taught?
Dec 1, 2016
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Word for repeatedly reading a word incorrectly and assuming the spelling of the word is as read?
Nov 15, 2016
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Is there a well-known secular sentence that uses all three of the imperative, indicative, and subjunctive moods?
Aug 22, 2016
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When and why did “mess” come to mean an untidy condition?
Sep 17, 2016
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Why is it that modern English readily accepts forming the adjectival form of some family member's names (e.g. motherly) but not others (e.g. sonly?)
Dec 11, 2016
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Word or idiom for a small group of birds
Dec 13, 2016
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why is it grammatically incorrect to say "very incredible"?
Feb 3, 2017
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Meaning of the first "ye" in Robert Herrick's poem, To the virgins, to make much of time
Aug 19, 2016
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What is the term for a word with two quite different spellings that are pronounced alike?
Jan 27, 2017
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Can the double dash be used to embed a sentence within a sentence?
Aug 21, 2016
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What are some counter-intuitive results in mathematics that involve only finite objects?
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In the history of mathematics, has there ever been a mistake?