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Please fix the standard sans-serif page title

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What good reference works on English are available?

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Collection of English sentence-level grammar rules as semi-structured "data"?

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Recommend the best book for articles [duplicate]

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Problem with the "Closed" message?

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Why do my questions on the etymology of idioms get closed, yet this one was accepted?: What is the origin of "out of sight" or "outa sight" i?

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Replacing our "research" close reason

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Where can I locate dictionaries or resources that provide explicit markings for silent letters in words?

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Why was my question locked after edition?

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List of phrasal verbs by approximate usage frequency?

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Announcement: AI generated answers are officially banned here

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Which books should I refer to in my master's thesis about parallelism? [closed]

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Is the "second" ("secondary") definition any less the definition than the first one? What do you call this?

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Question was closed as duplicate but is a different question

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Is Merriam Webster dictionary an outdated and unreliable dictionary?

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Request to reopen a closed-as-duplicate question: Can you write "... me's" (the possessive)?

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What resources/reference can I use when converting sentences from American English to British English?

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Is Python a snake or a programming language? If the latter, why is it choking my dog?

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What differences are between the American Heritage Dictionary and the American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language? [closed]


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