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What do you think is the best dictionary with synonyms?

GratefulDisciple

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modified yesterday

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Is the OED now available for free online?

fev

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answered Sep 8 at 15:41

1 vote

2 answers

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What do you think about using ChatGPT and AI features to learn English? Is it trustable 100%?

Mitch

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modified Aug 16 at 20:01

2 votes

2 answers

113 views

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SlateStaffMod

153

modified Aug 13 at 18:39

2 votes

1 answer

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Answer on "Ism" question possibly wrongly bot-flagged and deleted

LaurelMod

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answered Aug 7 at 13:07

3 votes

1 answer

185 views

Is there a reference/archive of English verbs and their argument structure (± their theta roles)?

CommunityBot

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modified Jul 21 at 0:03

-2 votes

1 answer

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Should there be a bot deletion reason?

tchristMod

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answered Jul 19 at 15:06

4 votes

1 answer

176 views

What is the [reason-why] tag used for?

CommunityBot

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modified Jul 3 at 18:03

4 votes

2 answers

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Why does adding a bounty to your own question prevent it from being voted closed?

LaurelMod

67.1k

answered Jun 26 at 16:12

0 votes

1 answer

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What can I do to improve my questions that my questions will be accepted again (regrettably I have got the question ban)?

tchristMod

136k

answered Jun 20 at 0:01

7 votes

0 answers

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On average when is it a good idea to reopen a question?

Mari-Lou A

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asked Jun 18 at 19:16

0 votes

1 answer

80 views

Why have I got a question ban?

tchristMod

136k

answered Jun 18 at 14:43

2 votes

1 answer

52 views

Why are questions summarily locked?

LaurelMod

67.1k

answered Jun 17 at 14:48

1 vote

1 answer

92 views

Can I download / buy Cambridge English Corpus / Cambridge Learner Corpus? Where to download these corpus?

Vy Do

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answered Jun 17 at 2:59

1 vote

0 answers

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Why was my suggested edit rejected?

PeterJames

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modified Jun 11 at 13:19

4 votes

1 answer

89 views

The English SE font is unable to display letters with macron and acute correctly

LaurelMod

67.1k

modified Jun 7 at 17:22

12 votes

2 answers

334 views

"I'm against this question primarily because of the username and icon"

alphabet

19.3k

modified Jun 6 at 4:25

3 votes

1 answer

56 views

Book of literary genres and character types?

Stuart F

10.6k

answered Jun 5 at 10:16

5 votes

0 answers

74 views

Etymology - Specifically for medical science and/or adjacent studies

JJ123

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Jun 2 at 8:22

1 vote

1 answer

87 views

Where did my old question go?

Lambie

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modified May 18 at 18:21

2 votes

1 answer

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Are questions about APA formatting on-topic?

Andrew LeachMod

103k

answered May 8 at 22:43

-6 votes

2 answers

221 views

Gratuitous personal attacks by poster

Mari-Lou A

92.3k

modified May 6 at 10:43

3 votes

0 answers

56 views

Is there a comprehensive grammar of British English from the early twentieth century that you recommend?

User 559

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asked May 4 at 7:59

1 vote

1 answer

52 views

How can we know what dictionary an entry on Dictionary.com is from?

LaurelMod

67.1k

answered Apr 26 at 15:29

6 votes

1 answer

210 views

What resources do I need to consult before asking a question?

LaurelMod

67.1k

modified Apr 26 at 10:27

119 votes

12 answers

89k views

What good reference works on English are available?

Nardog

1,874

modified Apr 26 at 7:08

-5 votes

1 answer

154 views

Want to complain about a gratuitous personal attack on the main site

Andrew LeachMod

103k

modified Apr 21 at 16:48

16 votes

2 answers

2k views

"Lexico" will be gone in less than a month

Nardog

1,874

modified Apr 14 at 12:13

11 votes

1 answer

265 views

"Why don't we close these duplicates?" vs "Why do we not close these duplicates?" vs "Why do not we close these questions as duplicates?"

LaurelMod

67.1k

modified Mar 25 at 13:00

4 votes

1 answer

78 views

Is requesting a English word or saying back to its native language on-topic?

Mitch

72k

modified Mar 21 at 17:18

6 votes

1 answer

175 views

Split migration off from the closure tree?

CommunityBot

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modified Mar 8 at 19:05

2 votes

1 answer

83 views

The Reader Over Your Shoulder by Robert Graves

Mitch

72k

modified Mar 7 at 14:35

5 votes

0 answers

103 views

Tag merge request: [expressions] tag into [phrases] tag

Joachim

3,333

modified Mar 2 at 10:02

4 votes

4 answers

517 views

Does the community think that we need a 'grammar, but too basic for ELU: almost any book on grammar will answer this clearly' close-vote reason?

alphabet

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modified Feb 17 at 0:09

0 votes

0 answers

125 views

What are the highest quality textbooks for learning English grammar? [duplicate]

JBR

1

Feb 15 at 5:10

-2 votes

4 answers

319 views

Problematic migrations to ELL (an ongoing thing)

ColleenV

1,368

modified Feb 7 at 12:26

20 votes

4 answers

502 views

Please don't migrate obviously off-topic questions to ELL - it just makes things harder on the author

ColleenV

1,368

modified Feb 5 at 18:33

28 votes

9 answers

2k views

Replacing our "research" close reason: Completed

LaurelMod

67.1k

modified Jan 31 at 23:26

9 votes

0 answers

148 views

2023: a year in moderation

David

12.9k

modified Jan 27 at 20:34

6 votes

2 answers

255 views

How to find particular topics in CGEL?

Araucaria - Him

48.1k

modified Jan 26 at 1:01

-3 votes

2 answers

161 views

Stack Exchange cannot be excluded from the sociocultural evolution of language, correct?

David

12.9k

modified Jan 14 at 19:24

4 votes

1 answer

179 views

How can I delete an "accepted answer"?

CommunityBot

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modified Jan 14 at 18:01

2 votes

1 answer

115 views

What happened to a question I (might have) posted about the word 'feminazis'?

Heartspring

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modified Jan 12 at 10:51

4 votes

1 answer

81 views

Should tag definitions be mandatory?

CommunityBot

1

modified Jan 11 at 4:07

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