Questions tagged [duplicates]
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Why is my question about the stress of "uroboros" a duplicate of the one about the stress of "stigmata"?
Sorry to make a post about "why my question was closed," but I'm having a hard time understanding it.
The question about "uroboros" asks about two things: descriptive information about the history ...
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We should have a better dupe target for questions about pronoun order
We receive a large number of questions about the proper use of pronouns, which in turn means that many of these questions are closed as duplicates.
These aren't all duplicates of one another, though: ...
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Can we switch to a better canonical question about using pronouns in compound possessives?
We get a lot of questions about coordinating pronouns with nouns for joint possession, along the lines of "my wife's and my dinner," most recently: "you," "your" or "yours&...
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My question was incorrectly marked as a duplicate. Can this be reviewed again?
I believe there is a clear difference between my question and the question marked as a duplicate. I have edited the post to emphasize how it is different, now I'm posting here to see if someone can ...
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The answer to this question is great! But the question is closed and a bit hard to find
"Put me in touch with whomever created it"?
I think F.E.'s answer here is very good and complete--the best overview on the case of fused relative pronouns that I've seen on this site.
But ...
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What should be done with the questions that ask about the reason behind adjective order?
There are a bunch of questions that ask about adjective order, and most of them are closed as dupes of the original What is the rule for adjective order? asked 12+ years ago.
There are three questions ...
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What's the word for someone who doesn't appreciate what he has and wants more? - Not a duplicate
What's the word for someone who doesn't appreciate what he has and wants more?
What's the word for someone who is ungrateful/ not appreciative of the things he has but wants more lavish things? ...
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Review the duplicate linkage between the 'token list' question and the 'user account' question
The following questions are duplicates:
should a list of tokens be called a "token list" or a "tokens list"
"User accounts" or "users account"
The accepted ...
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Reasons for dupe-close on question with the tag question-tag?
Can someone tell me why this question on question-tags was closed as a duplicate of this other one?
As far as I can tell, the new question (though not particularly well-written by the standards of ...
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Why are all the can/may questions marked as duplicates of the question about the weird sentence “Can/may/will you help me with this?”
I'm familiar with the idea of choosing one question as an (informal) "canonical" target for duplicates, but I was surprised to find that for questions about the difference between "can" vs. "may", the ...
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'Duped' again...is that a "real word"?
My question, titled what does the phrase "a real word" mean?, from Sept 2015 has been closed as a duplicate of What are the criteria to adopt new words into English?, from Feb 2011.
Aside from the ...
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Let's change the canonical question about forming possessives for words which end in 'z' [Completed]
I voted to close the question https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/362525/when-a-name-ends-in-z as a duplicate of Possessive form for a surname ending with "z" (Q1).
Unfortunately, ...
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Not all "whom" questions are interchangeable duplicates
I can understand the impulse to vote to close any new question about the use of whom as a duplicate, since most of them are. However, I don't think that any two questions about whom are necessarily ...
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Not even close to a duplicate
I see here question about duplicates that it is OK to post here when one's question is falsely marked duplicate.
This is the case with my question “I was late, and so I got fired.” Can we use two ...
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Question marked duplicate when it isn't (in my opinion)
I asked this question with very specific examples of people describing what they like using redundant adjectives (specifically things like "I like well-written books" or "I like tasty food"). I'm ...
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How to respond to duplicate suggestion when I feel no edit is needed?
I have a question that is suggested as a duplicate and says I should edit the question to make it non-duplicative. If I feel it is not a dup, but I feel the question already, as written, is not a dup,...
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“possible duplicate of…” is uncapitalised
When we close-vote a question as a duplicate of another question, a comment is auto-generated. This comment reads:
possible duplicate of [Title of Dupe Question]
For as long as I've been here, ...
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Related questions that I think were incorrectly merged
Word meaning coincidence of reference to the unusual
Phenomenon of learning a new word that you've never seen before, and then seeing it being used (currently merged with the above)
A single word ...
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Should a moderator merge the questions about the pronunciation of the name "Sean"?
Why do we pronounce Dean as /diːn/ but Sean as /ʃɒn/?
Why is Sean pronounced Shawn?
I think I was the first one to vote for closing the first as a duplicate of the second, and now I feel stupid for ...
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Three duplicates that I think should be merged (pronunciation of "coN-" words)
I don't see any value in keeping the following three questions distinct. However, there are some valuable answers to each of them (but not too many answers). So, I think all of the answers should be ...
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What makes a question about historical usage of a word off-topic?
The question about the historical usage of men to refer to human beings generally was closed as off-topic. It seems to fall under usage and perhaps even etymology, two of the listed acceptable topics....
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Request to reopen a closed-as-duplicate question: Can you write "... me's" (the possessive)?
Note: The question has now been reopened. I have added further examples of the group genitive to my answer to the question. This should help to distinguish it further from the hyphenated compound ...
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