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94 questions linked to/from What good reference works on English are available?
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Is Tom Dalzell's book “The Routledge Dictionary of Modern American Slang and Unconventional English” authoritative?
I was surfing the internet and chanced upon "The Routledge Dictionary of Modern American Slang and Unconventional English" edited by one Tom Dalzell. Notwithstanding the praise for the book ...
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Where can I find a large corpus of contemporary English writing? [closed]
Where can I find a large corpus of contemporary English writing?
I am a computer programmer, and I would like to execute a program which searches the corpus for certain text-patterns.
I am willing to ...
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Are there any resources for 18th and 19th Century English Grammar?
I recently asked a question regarding archaic English grammar and one of the comments recommended that I make a resource request here on the Meta.
I'm looking for any books or websites that ...
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Resources for finding early uses of words?
I have a strangely deep admiration for archaic language and its usage and find that when working on period-piece writings, sources (catalogs of old books) for researching words used in the period (And ...
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Using internet search engines (Google/Yahoo) 'News' results to count frequency of a word
I'm trying to find a way to export the results/ count the frequency of a specific word 'homeless' in News articles in my country over the past 10 years.
I am aware of Google Books NGram viewer for ...
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Need help in understanding why my question was deleted
My question Modern politically correct English guide (10k only, screenshot below) was deleted. I am asking for help from the community here to understand why this question was deleted, and how I could ...
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Why aren’t my questions being answered
If you look at at profile https://english.stackexchange.com/users/373235/theguradian my questions weren’t answered at all why?
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Other words for 'said'?
Okay, I admit; I like quotative verbs. Of course, I would prefer to avoid using 'said' all the time.
AFAIK there is no canonical question asking for general alternatives to 'said'. I've compiled ...
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Why was a question about two English words closed and returned to another site, without comment?
This question, terminology - As adjectives, not in math: 'different' vs 'differential' - English Language & Usage Stack Exchange, has been marked as closed.
But no explanation, other than "This ...
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Is there a free online Canadian English Dictionary? [duplicate]
All Canadian English dictionaries appear to be under a paywall model.
Can anybody help?
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Commonly-available reference issue
This user posted this answer in October 2018.
I have an issue with the link they have provided.
The user has provided a definition from the OED and a link that takes you to the OED's homepage.
The ...
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Finding resources within the site guidelines
I know questions about finding resources are off-topic on the main site, however, this puts users like me in a bind. Frequently, questions are flagged as easily answerable with the right resource (...
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Warn people of the rules for [Single-Word-Requests] before posting
As everyone probably knows, very few people actually follow the main rule of single-word-requests:
YOU MUST INCLUDE A SAMPLE SENTENCE
Thus we have many low-quality questions, many of which get ...
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Are there any proper guidelines to write an answer?
I am looking for SE or SE ELU answer writing guide. Recently, my (accepted) answer was edited – screenshots removed – with this comment.
Some of the information contained in this post requires ...
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Where does it say that resources are off-topic on main?
It's been assumed that questions about resources are off-topic because they aren't questions about the language per se.
Here's an example:
Main - I'm looking for a tool for comparing the meaning ...