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145 Questions

Are "ins", "hrs", "mins" and "secs" the technically correct plural abbreviations for "inches", "hours", "minutes" and "seconds"?

Is 'As per our discussion' and 'As per your instructions' wrong? [duplicate]

That’s what makes Tony Tony

What does it mean when someone says "Would you please indulge me for a couple of minutes?"? [closed]

Struck vs Stricken

Is it acceptable to use a single hyphen as a dash (as the BBC does)?

Is "exemplar" a synonym for the word "example"? [closed]

Which is the correct idiom – "When worst comes to worst" or "When worse comes to worst"? [closed]

'[sic]' to indicate punctuation errors

Is "in fact" always set off by commas mid-sentence?

The Interrupting Colon – ie a colon after a verb

Are 'rich' and 'cold' relative or absolute terms?

Would "mid-to-late" and "low-to-mid" hyphenated as compound modifiers?

Predicative Position of Adjectives: Do We Hyphenate after the Verb?

"mid" without a following hyphen in these words?

A host of competitive offers has / have been received

Comma after 'is'? [duplicate]

Single Markers Used For Punctuation of Plurals

Is it grammatically incorrect to follow the abbreviations ie and eg with etc? [duplicate]

Do we put a comma before "then" when it's the last word in a sentence?

Punctuation of possessive quotations

Bracketed Capital Letter [duplicate]

Height and Weight — How to write them when abbreviations are not used

Possessive of Quoted Song Title in Quotes

Signs, signs, everywhere there's signs

"Let's you and I/me be fair with each other."

Is "non-life-threatening" punctuated correctly with two hyphens?

Three inches of snow is/are expected? [closed]

Ergative with Because [closed]

Trademark names that start with a lowercase letter -- do we cap the lowercase letter when it starts a sentence? [duplicate]