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V.V.

Jul 19, 2017 19:02

english.stackexchange.com/questions/280248/…. Enjoy.

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jimsug

Nov 5, 2015 02:25

Ah, Google Translate. Never stop trying: digitaltrends.com/web/…

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tchrist

Nov 3, 2015 11:24

It is well documented that some people delude themselves into believing they pronounce prints and prince differently even though spectrographs prove they do not.

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Cardinal

Jun 10, 2019 15:11

Is it weird that I prefer to do my research work in a corner of library instead of my personal office? For some reason, I feel very calm and happy in libraries.

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userr2684291

Jun 10, 2019 08:54

Word of the day: knockout

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Cardinal

Jun 8, 2019 14:45

word of the day: Binge Watching

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Damkerng T.

Oct 30, 2015 02:45

My CGEL has just arrived!

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M.A.R. ಠ_ಠ

Jun 5, 2019 23:29

Word of the day: Pooh-pooh

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StoneyB

Oct 21, 2015 22:37

Nos morituri te salutamus

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ColleenV

May 31, 2019 14:36

Idiom of the day “every jot and tittle” from a transcript of an interview with US AG Barr. “My purpose there was not to summarize every jot and tittle of the report...”

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Cardinal

May 29, 2019 03:22

Phrase of the night: put out feelers

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Anonymous

Oct 10, 2015 14:54

Anyway, the lesson of that story is, you want at least one good tag on each question, but zero bad tags, if possible.

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Cardinal

May 27, 2019 03:54

Word of the night: Moot

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CowperKettle

Jun 25, 2017 04:17

Give a man a fish and he will be satisfied for one day. Name a man Satisfied and he will be Satisfied all his life

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Anonymous

May 24, 2019 14:23

ELL has much bigger problems with its question titles than whether they’re written as questions.

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Cardinal

May 23, 2019 03:26

Phrasal verb of the night: get around to

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Cardinal

May 21, 2019 01:47

Phrasal verb of night: come down with

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Anonymous

May 19, 2019 19:34

On dysfluency, disfluency, and now interpolation, see Mark Liberman’s Dysfluency Considered Harmful.

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M.A.R. ಠ_ಠ

May 19, 2019 19:25

And I can't for the life of me find my glasses. @Userr are you sitting on my glasses. Get up.

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J.R.

May 15, 2019 18:13

Hence, it's "Daisy Looked at Tom Frowning, 7pm."

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M.A.R. ಠ_ಠ

May 15, 2019 18:01

Possibility #3: No one. His name is Tom Frowning

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Anonymous

Jun 5, 2017 18:14

See Quirk et al 1985 p.1333, Huddleston & Pullum 2002 p.470, Biber et al 1999 p.296

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userr2684291

May 11, 2019 10:37

That would be page 1220.

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userr2684291

May 9, 2019 19:13

Word of the day: satisfice

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userr2684291

May 27, 2017 13:01

Phrase of the day: on the up and up

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Jim Reynolds

May 4, 2019 12:30

Jim Reynolds hangs his head in shame. Hurls a double-decker bus at @userr2684291, out of affection.

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Jim Reynolds

May 4, 2019 11:50

For the love of All that's Holy, Righteous, and Good, fellow, ELLers, please reopen the question so I may answer it.

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Anonymous

Apr 28, 2019 03:17

@Cardinal Like appears in a range of constructions, each with its own grammar. You're comparing two different constructions and suggesting that one can be "shortened" to the other, but they're really just two different constructions. In the construction where you propose to insert that, we find like takes a non-expandable declarative content clause as a complement, making that ungrammatical.

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ColleenV

Apr 22, 2019 20:35

Above the sheets, you can have blankets, or a quilt, or a big fluffy comforter or duvet.

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ColleenV

Apr 22, 2019 20:34

@santimirandarp I say the “ bottom sheet” or “fitted sheet” instead of “lower”

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ColleenV

Apr 22, 2019 20:34

Fitted sheet is if it has corners sewn into it so it stays on the mattress better

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Cardinal

May 11, 2017 06:23

Word of the day: piquant

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userr2684291

May 5, 2017 20:38

theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2015/12/hmmmmm/420798 They quote Pullum in this article on Yoda-speak.

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userr2684291

May 5, 2017 20:25

Word of the day: first cousins once removed

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CowperKettle

Apr 17, 2019 09:05

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Damkerng T.

May 2, 2017 13:34

Word of the Day: precipitous

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Anonymous

May 1, 2017 23:59

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Anonymous

Apr 21, 2017 09:50

Word of the day: capitonym

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CowperKettle

Mar 29, 2019 03:27

Word of the day: wildebeest

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Anonymous

Mar 29, 2019 01:24

phon.ucl.ac.uk/home/wells/ipa-english-uni.htm

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Anonymous

Mar 26, 2019 07:49

Yep.

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Catija

Apr 4, 2017 15:16

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M.A.R. ಠ_ಠ

Mar 23, 2019 13:26

@It'saboutEnglish natural != correct, but you probably already know that

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Anonymous

Mar 31, 2017 05:38

petaloso: How an eight-year-old boy invented a new word

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ColleenV

Mar 20, 2019 19:58

I would say “taking in” like in the title of this sculpture frankplant.net/portfolio-posts/taking-in-the-laundry

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Anonymous

Mar 26, 2017 06:24

I appreciate the well-wishing pings I've been getting :-)

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ColleenV

Mar 16, 2019 10:46

@CowperKettle My father-in-law calls snow "angel poop". Y'all must have a lot of angels up there...

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userr2684291

Mar 23, 2017 19:49

Word of the day: clay feet

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userr2684291

Mar 15, 2019 14:30

Word of the day: dog-ear

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userr2684291

Mar 22, 2017 15:30

Word of the day: be-all and end-all

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