English Language & Usage
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I did my degree in English/French Language/Linguistics back in the '70s, but I only got a middling grade, and I've worked in software development ever since, so I'm really only an expert on English language in the same way any articulate native speaker is.

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Why are answers being posted in the comments on the question?
May 15, 2012
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2014 Moderator Election Q&A - Question Collection
Jun 9, 2014
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How do I insert an actual NGram chart into my post?
May 20, 2011
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What's the status of ELL relative to ELU?
Jan 28, 2013
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50 question per month limit?
Feb 27, 2014
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Why are all the contributors here so nasty to each other?
Mar 26, 2017
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Why are ELU's users so easily irritated?
Nov 12, 2014
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Exactly WHY is this question Off Topic? Or not?
Nov 19, 2014
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What constitutes justification for posing a question on ELU?
Feb 9, 2012
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Why did so few people vote in the 2012 elections for moderators?
Aug 27, 2012
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"Replace with" versus "replace by"
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An English idiom for "solve a problem that has been solved"?
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Is there a word for a change so small that it doesn’t seem to be a change at all?
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"There is/are more than one". What's the difference?
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Looking for a word to describe the sound of the morning as hundreds of birds begin singing before sunrise?

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