Timeline for a sore throat vs a strep throat vs strep throat
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| May 2, 2019 at 20:10 | vote | accept | Andrew | ||
| Apr 28, 2019 at 3:28 | answer | added | CR Drost | timeline score: 2 | |
| Apr 27, 2019 at 21:36 | comment | added | Hearth | Strep throat specifically refers to a Streptococcus infection, a type of bacterium that commonly causes throat infections. It's sometimes used to mean just a sore throat. | |
| Apr 27, 2019 at 14:12 | comment | added | gidds | I've only ever heard the abbreviation ‘strep’ or the term ‘strep throat’ in American contexts; here in England I think ‘sore throat’ or more specifically ‘throat infection’ are vastly more common. | |
| Apr 27, 2019 at 13:03 | comment | added | Andrew | @AaronF Dictionaries say so. "Strep-" is a common prefix for throat-related medications (e.g. "strepsils", "strepfen") | |
| Apr 27, 2019 at 9:34 | comment | added | Aaron F | Is "strep throat" an American English term? I've never heard it before. The only thing that sounds related to me is "Strepsils" - a brand name of flavoured throat sweets, intended for sore throats. | |
| Apr 26, 2019 at 18:17 | answer | added | CrescentSickle | timeline score: 8 | |
| Apr 26, 2019 at 18:00 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/StackEnglishLL/status/1121836537614884864 | ||
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| Apr 26, 2019 at 16:36 | answer | added | Michael Harvey | timeline score: 5 | |
| Apr 26, 2019 at 16:35 | answer | added | Jan | timeline score: 11 | |
| Apr 26, 2019 at 16:32 | answer | added | Juhasz | timeline score: 15 | |
| Apr 26, 2019 at 16:32 | history | edited | Andrew | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Apr 26, 2019 at 16:23 | history | edited | Andrew | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Apr 26, 2019 at 16:18 | history | asked | Andrew | CC BY-SA 4.0 |