The specific of John Doe is probably that it rhymes - and John is a very common English name. It's a very old (medieval) English usage but is now only really used in AE, John Smith is the typical generic name in BE, but it isn't used as a legal term in Britain. There is a similar usage in cryp...

When writing papers, I meet typos/grammatical errors in references now and then. Should I correct them, or leave them as they are?

I'm not entirely sure how I can settle with a good 1 to 10 quality rating labels, where 1 is very poor and 10 is great, for example: Very poor Poor Slightly fair Fair Average Slightly good Good ... ... Great I don't know what could be 8 and 9, but I guess the labels can be changed/impr...

Proposed Q&A site for experienced drug users, and those in the pharmacology-related businesses.

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We want to indicate that jeans are for only female at the etiquette. So options: Only female, Only woman, For woman, For women, For female Which one is viable or are there any better one? Thanks

From the New Oxford American Dictionary: doornail (noun): a stud set in a door for strength or as an ornament. (as) dead as a doornail: quite dead. Note that it is “doornail” with no space.

In the past days, a question has been deleted by a diamond user (not one of our moderators), and some questions have been closed as off-topic because of something that was added to the FAQ (again, not by our moderators). Does that mean we are not doing a good job in closing questions that do not...

In longish lists of comments the list gets abridged and a "more comments" link shows up at the end, kind of like an ellipsis. Normally, one would expect that such a list would be trimmed at the end, but on English.SE (and possibly on other SE sites) the elisions can occur anywhere in the list. F...