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I want to study the various usages of the 17th and 16th century verb “atone”. Other than oed.com, where can I study this verb and adverb?

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Why was “What's the word for something that is purposefully generalised and understated?” locked?

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Grammar error in Review

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Resources for finding early uses of words?

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What good reference works on English are available?

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Let's discuss this edit

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Is it possible to get publication dates from the BNC?

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answered Sep 9 at 22:47 Laurel 46.6k

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New user asks: Are requests for proverbs and sayings (as opposed to single-word idiom requests) on-topic?

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Why was 'How did “unless” semantically shift to signify “except if”?' closed?

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modified Sep 8 at 14:17 Mitch 64.3k

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Is there a service to find out if my phrase is used online like corpora, but not exactly?

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I'm trying to find credible sources for the etymology of the word “naughty” Any tips?

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How can I edit this question and start the reopening process to make additional answers possible?

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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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modified Aug 28 at 21:05 Community♦ 1

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What's happened to post formatting?

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answered Aug 27 at 15:08 Andrew Leach♦ 86.5k

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Was the question “etc. etc. usage” closed correctly?

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Why was “What is the difference between '[I] may [be] …' and 'even though … '?” locked?

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How to enter phonetic transcriptions?

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My first question

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Can I ask for help in lyrics for songs?

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Accepted an answer but didn't receive the two reputation award

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Can an old account be 'merged' if it is no longer accessible by the user?

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How to ask questions about the languages themselves?

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Can we add a category to the current flagging imperatives?

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Can someone please help me edit my question better?

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Why doesn't a letter show up when enclosed in < and >?

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How to remove an inappropriate lock on this site?

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Can I control the font size?

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Using internet search engines (Google/Yahoo) 'News' results to count frequency of a word

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Answers in comments

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“Removed OED definition as it is not allowed under my license agreement”

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What is the legal position re cut & pasting OED entries?

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What tag should be used when a question is completely off topic?

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Comments were moved to chat room, chat room was removed?

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Need help in understanding why my question was deleted

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First proposal tag wiki rejected

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I can't post comments

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Why aren’t my questions being answered

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Dealing with obstinacy of commenters

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Why my question has been locked on comments if it has 1 comment and 1 answer only?

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Criteria specific dictionaries use to decide on ordering of different senses of a given headword

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How to duplicate formatting of dictionary extract, with italics?

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Is it better to remove spam links when editing or to flag them for moderators?

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Biased downvoting because I told the truth to the answerer

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Holding or Closing Questions

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What's the general consensus on “Grammarly”?

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Are questions better if they contain the actual words they reference?

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Allophones and Intonation transcripts

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