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Seamus

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14 Questions

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33 votes

3 answers

7k views

Is there a historical trend towards shorter sentences?

asked Oct 1, 2010 at 15:29

32 votes

5 answers

22k views

What is the distinction between "among" and "amongst"?

asked Aug 29, 2010 at 21:34

18 votes

5 answers

13k views

How does a word come to have two completely opposite meanings?

asked Jun 14, 2011 at 15:19

16 votes

3 answers

4k views

Descriptivism and widespread misspelling

asked Oct 6, 2010 at 10:32

14 votes

4 answers

3k views

Why did "insofar" become a word, not "insofaras"?

asked Dec 7, 2011 at 14:52

13 votes

2 answers

3k views

Whose usage determines correctness?

asked Oct 1, 2010 at 15:24

12 votes

8 answers

5k views

If I help "evacuate" a building, what am I doing to the people?

asked Aug 8, 2011 at 13:10

12 votes

5 answers

3k views

Plurals of loanwords of obviously foreign form

asked Sep 4, 2010 at 22:21

10 votes

2 answers

2k views

Words with roots from different languages

asked Oct 29, 2010 at 11:51

9 votes

1 answer

2k views

Sam Weller in The Pickwick Papers: What accent is Dickens portraying?

asked Nov 29, 2012 at 11:34

8 votes

4 answers

20k views

Naïve, naïf, naïvety, naïveté

asked Sep 4, 2010 at 22:17

4 votes

6 answers

1k views

Mass nouns and counts nouns. Does getting it wrong ever matter?

asked Aug 30, 2010 at 11:15

4 votes

2 answers

7k views

How to refer to "mainland Europe"

asked Oct 4, 2010 at 10:25

3 votes

1 answer

2k views

Examples of different roots (and different meanings) coming to be spelled the same

asked Sep 3, 2010 at 22:46