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the 90s "were" or "was" the best decade
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Do I need commas when doing a sort of funnel in a sentence [closed]
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What sound would an English speaker produce when the reduced vowel in ‘want𝑒d’ or ‘𝑒xist’ is under secondary stress (e.g. long note in a song)?
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Difference between "human male" and "male human"
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In Gary Bernhardt's talk about Ruby and JavaScript surprises, what does "wat" mean?
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Europe-bound vs. European-bound
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Verb forms of mode
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Should it be "is" or "are"? "This tool has far greater powers than is/are apparent"
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How can the word “no” be an adverb?
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Does a semicolon work in this sentence, where there are only two clauses and one of them is dependent? The sentence includes a list -- kind of
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Aphorism for "if you can't do what you want right now, do something else that furthers the greater goal"?
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'Hadn't heard' vs 'didn't hear' in a conversion of direct to indirect speech? [migrated]
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What would be a good word for describing the way the sun feels pleasant on your skin? [closed]
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A word for "a message to myself"
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A single word for dishonestly underselling one's own importance/credentials?
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A single word for overselling / lying about ones own importance/credentials?
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"Nikki's and Alice's cars" vs. "Nikki and Alice's cars"
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Origin of "I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand."?
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I live in a townlet, a village, a colony or a community vs I live at a townlet, a village, a colony or a community [duplicate]
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Is the phrase "in order to" capitalized in titles? [duplicate]
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Looking for a particular phrase for a subtly important part of an argument
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What's the origin of the saying "know your onions"?
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Why is “As a white guy who spent his whole career at MIT…” funny [closed]
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What is a word for rudely interrupting/cutting someone off mid sentence?
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Why does anti-semitism not refer to all Semitic languages? [duplicate]
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"has spoken dismissively in" - What does this mean?
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There is a word for when someone does something below their class I've seen it before but can't remember the word [duplicate]
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Someone who thinks he's very important, but isn't
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Is "escort" primarily associated with paid companionship in modern English?
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The meaning of tibbies?
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Is "escort" primarily associated with paid companionship in modern English?
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There is the phrase "I hope to tell". What does it mean?
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Pronunciation of "Paraguay"
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What's the word for making something or someone appear intelligent? Similar to aggrandizement, but specifically for intelligence
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Grammar Error in Frank Herbert's Children of Dune?
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"put one drop in both eyes"
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How did Middle English form pronominal adverbs like "whereof" given three words instead of two?
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Should I put a comma after a name here?
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Do I capitalise a fantasy monster species if the name is a pre-existing word? [closed]
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What is the logic behind uncountable nouns?
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How would you say "un(e) semaine/mois/année flottant(e)" in English?
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Why do some hymns from England start with the word "and"?
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Can't "English is easier than Maths" be rewritten as "Maths is not as easy as English"?
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Idiom/phrase to say "designed to solve"
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Is there a word for a shift in a road where it remains parallel to its original direction?
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