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Fun educational book about English language with a wide spectrum of knowledge and facts

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Why there's no box (for me) to answer a question?

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Support for Monica Cellio

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Why does reputation increase by 1?

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Reopen “How can a word for 'the act of Xing', semantically shift to mean 'the thing Xed'?”

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Is this word order question a duplicate of this AAVE question? If so, how?

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A few thousand rep points more in one single day are a nice thing, but why?

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Using Abbreviations In The Questions [duplicate]

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Do we have any information on what the “preferred pronouns” are?

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John Lawler's ELU answer links, by topic

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Thanks for re-reopening the following question

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Primarily Opinion Based . . . Is it too restrictive of a closure reason?

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Please vote on this proposal to ban from question titles certain words whose posts we usually end up closing and deleting

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Do we need a better guide to culture than the tour?

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How to know how well known (by average american) a word is?

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Have we lost some moderators as a result of recent events?

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Why was my question and account deleted?

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Is there any way for a user to know if there is a report on them? [duplicate]

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Proposal to rename 'sociolinguistic' tag to 'sociolinguistics'

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Can sub-15 rep users flag their own content?

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Is it correct that a post is deemed 'well received' if it has comments?

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Migration of question

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Reporting rude comments

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Why are some users with 10k+ rep allowing minor, and I mean, very minor edits to pass through?

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Grammatical vs incorrect usage

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Answer no longer shows? [closed]

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Is it really true that those who down / up vote and/or close a question do not have to provide any reason why? [duplicate]

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When is it reasonable to reject a suggested edit that fixes a broken link in a LQ post?

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We need a site specific message for our advice page

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Should we do something about the heavily downvoted answer on “take the biscuit”?

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Can I undo a bounty that I accidentally opened for the wrong question?

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Is scolding other users in the comments section worthy of a flag?

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How far on the right side of the 'rude' line is implying that British people are irrational?

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Please reopen the question about the meaning of 'wong'

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It’s September again

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What's missing on the answer flag options?

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Is it wrong to answer a question that you've voted to close?

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Is it possible that some action or someone altered my history?

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Close reason. Unclear

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Not a regular in this Exchange, wanted to report weird Moderator behavior, is this the right place?

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glossary of grammar terminology

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Revised: Is a question about the Economist's article “Silly Sausages” on topic, or are we too serious to enjoy a linguistic laugh?

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Could we have this header on the mobile site?

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Inappropriate replacement of question?

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Is letter-writing still on topic?

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Would it be worth migrating questions to Writers.SE?

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English Morphology

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