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Leon Conrad

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What do people mean or think they mean by "not to scale?"

answered Mar 25, 2014 at 20:23

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Meaning of "Skull" as Insult

answered Mar 17, 2014 at 19:32

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Why aren’t Tom, Jake, and Jenny looking forward to Thanksgiving?

answered Mar 12, 2014 at 21:56

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Idiom for someone who is in good position/mood

answered Feb 17, 2014 at 11:21

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Verbs with Inanimate Subjects

answered Feb 3, 2014 at 19:42

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'Sometime back' or 'Sometimes back'?

answered Feb 7, 2014 at 6:06

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An equivalent term for "decaffeinated"

answered Mar 17, 2014 at 8:14

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What is the name of the tactic that politicians use to bury people with torrent of words?

answered Mar 27, 2014 at 12:16

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Why do we say that we "observe" traditions?

answered Mar 2, 2014 at 21:16

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Using adjectives as nouns

answered Jun 10, 2014 at 21:00

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What is the English word for "street along a river bank"?

answered Mar 18, 2014 at 7:03

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How did the words "petting" and "necking" come to mean kissing with passion?

answered Mar 15, 2014 at 23:08

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Indefinite article before country name

answered Mar 13, 2014 at 16:19

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

answered Feb 14, 2014 at 15:48

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What term means the "non-fiction information found in a fictional story"?

answered Feb 6, 2014 at 6:09

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Origin of the expression "you can't make chicken salad out of chicken something else"

answered Mar 15, 2014 at 12:04

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Does a submarine cruise underwater or sail underwater?

answered Mar 27, 2014 at 12:31

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'How dared you?' versus 'How dare you?'

answered Mar 20, 2014 at 21:02

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"Assist someone do" vs. "assist someone to do (or "in/with" doing)"

answered Mar 4, 2014 at 20:36

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is "Younger Generation" plural or singular

answered Mar 1, 2014 at 6:58

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Good verb for "to make more concise"?

answered Feb 18, 2014 at 9:04

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Language Gibberish

answered Feb 21, 2014 at 11:46

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Understanding grammatical structure of a sentence using commas

answered Mar 22, 2014 at 17:40

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Some residual effects of the Great Vowel Shift

answered Nov 4, 2015 at 16:23

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What is my name abbreviation?

answered Mar 12, 2014 at 6:46

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A non-offensive term to call a lunatic?

answered Feb 5, 2014 at 18:18

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An analogy to describe an individual who merges traits he finds from others in order to develop his own identity?

answered Feb 5, 2014 at 22:46

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Comma after "after a while"?

answered Feb 8, 2014 at 16:54

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'Trying to help someone, but the other party doesn't appreciate it'

answered Feb 3, 2014 at 6:52

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Em-dash vs colon: "Remind me: what's your name again?" or "Remind me—what's your name again?"

answered Feb 14, 2014 at 8:09

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