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This question was closed as being "opinion based," and I am interested in knowing why. The main part of the question is as follows: I am trying to find a word that can be used in formal situations th …

This question (Is there any online tool to read (pronounce) IPA and APA written words?) has 105k views and 83 upvotes. But it's been closed because it's asking for a resource. Most resource requests a …

Going through most of the questions in that tag, they fall into a few groups: Terms used by journalists/terms related to journalism: Is there a word that describes when an editor sends some copy back …

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 …

Tangential to the original question, which remains valid, I want to note here that you've misunderstood Araucaria's comment. I don't think Araucaria is anti-Webster, they were responding to a comment …

A recent question used the reason-why tag for what was really an etymology question, so I retagged it appropriately. (Or at least I think it was appropriate.) Now I'm wondering what the tag is even fo …

Well, given that it's been two months since I've asked this question and it still hasn't been answered, it seems that nobody really knows what it's for. I really think there should be some consistency …

How is this question opinion-based? ("May I have a mango!" is it an Imperative, Optative or Interrogative sentence?) There is nothing that seems inherently subjective about it, nor does it look partic …

A decade+ later, I think very few people on this site would agree with the 'yes' in the (since deleted) accepted answer. Though the tag word-games has 21 questions, very few of the un-closed, un-lock …

The tag usage redirects to word-usage, as the two are synonymized. But I can still find the tag on certain questions. When I search for the word-usage tag, many of the earlier results still display th …

Perhaps this is a bit too broad a question, but we'll see. Here goes. Right now, the consensus seems to be that list-question SWRs are opinion-based or too broad (and thus off-topic). List-question S …

The MSE post is now marked as being status-completed, as of four hours ago, and the icons look normal again. (The bug was a byproduct of a new site, PLDI, leaving private Beta.) So I think this has be …

The question When did Western newspapers stop using the term “Japs” in their publications? was asked yesterday and has really been riding the closure-rollercoaster: Expanded details: The first tim …

The question What does "make the Iacke go" mean? has received four answers, all of which propose theories as to what the phrase means. Under it are also some comments that, to me, raise an interesting …