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[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Few unique characters in answer, mostly punctuation marks in answer (123): Difference between 'he is gone out' and 'he has gone out'? by Name on ell.SE

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[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Username similar to website in answer (63): Hold dual citizenship for/of by ctrustglobal on ell.SE

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Q: to sign up [using] / [by using] the link in the description

"The first thousand people to sign up using the link in the description will get their first two months free." This is a sentence from a sponsored Youtube video. I saw it and wrote it down. My question is, what is the difference if we place by after "to sign up"? Someone on the Internet I talke...

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Q: Is it possible to change the font of THIS site?

My question is very simple. This site has a default font which is kind of boring. See the font of the other English site: Is it possible to change the font of THIS site (https://ell.stackexchange.com/) to the one the other English site uses?

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Eddie Kal

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A: Why isn’t the third person singular used in “The Lord bless you”?

The most likely source for the original quotation is one of the English translations of the Old Testament, and the most likely source for that is one of the Latin translations of the Old Testament. So for instance in the Vulgate this appears as "benedicat tibi Dominus et custodiat te," and that i...