English Language & Usage
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I did my degree in English/French Language/Linguistics back in the '70s, but I only got a middling grade, and I've worked in software development ever since, so I'm really only an expert on English language in the same way any articulate native speaker is.

"English has a direction and flow with the past as a rudder, not an anchor".

(Thanks to user AncientSwordRage for that one! :)

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"Replace with" versus "replace by"
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An English idiom for "solve a problem that has been solved"?
Sep 26, 2014
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Is there a word for a change so small that it doesn’t seem to be a change at all?
Oct 10, 2011
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Looking for a word to describe the sound of the morning as hundreds of birds begin singing before sunrise?
Jun 5, 2018
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What do you call money earned through unethical sources?
Jul 12, 2014
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"There is/are more than one". What's the difference?
Jul 23, 2011
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Is there a word or phrase for something that one might wish exists, but most certainly doesn't?
Feb 2, 2016
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Is the term 'String' too jargony to use in a user interface?
Aug 15, 2011
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"Man" is to "womanizer" as "woman" is to what?
May 27, 2012
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An adjective or a single word that means something is "new" and "different" at the same time
Apr 8, 2015
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