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Studied Old English, Middle English, Elizabethan English, and Modern English language and literature for 10 years in college and graduate school. Taught freshman English classes in fiction, poetry, and expository writing for five years. Native speaker of American English.

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Can I use the word "mill" as a synonym for "destroy"?
Jul 18
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Why is there no article "the" before "international law"?
Jul 13
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Scottish idiom for people talking too much
Jul 3
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Sentence Structure Question (Is it acceptable?)
Jun 22
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Is there a word for when someone stops being talented?
Jul 22
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"Planned on system": meaning (G.M. Trevelyan, A Short History of England)
Aug 1
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'Manage to' as a catenative verb construction
Jul 6
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"at" or "in" with the city 's name
Aug 2
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Is "quack" a non-finite form of the verb in "What does the duck do? Quack."?
Dec 19, 2022
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One less thing to worry about
Sep 29
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PostgreSQL cannot begin/end transactions in PL/pgSQL
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Excel save-as CSV options -- possible to change comma to pipe or tab instead?
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Using .NET how to convert ISO 8859-1 encoded text files that contain Latin-1 accented characters to UTF-8

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