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GArthurBrown
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Amateur philologist, author of five books of fiction (mostly out of print now due to their wild and persistent popularity), part-time fiction editor, philosopher-dilettante, Anglophile, asthmatic.

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Idiom meaning similar people tend to gather
Jul 17, 2021
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Several people sharing the same title...is the title plural?
Jul 22, 2021
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What's one word for the phrase 'the act of taking your head back on seeing something strange'?
Jul 17, 2021
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When and where did the new sense of "normalize" begin?
Jul 5, 2021
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Why is there a flap allophone of /t/ but not of /k/ or /p/?
Jul 9, 2021
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A word for first name and middle name/s, but not last name
Jun 20, 2021
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When did the change occur in meaning of Afghan from an ethnic group to "person from Afghanistan?"
Aug 27, 2021
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Comma question - warning: quite possibly opinion based
Jul 14, 2021
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Is there a term used to signify one dialect retains more older words, or conversely, that one adopts more neologisms?
Jul 10, 2021
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"Hook it home" meaning
Jul 9, 2021
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