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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.

Things to listen to before you die:
#1 Spanish Harlem - Rebecca Pidgeon
(If there are ever additions to this list, they'll all be "also-rans"! :)

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Why is "He knows to swim" incorrect?
Aug 20, 2014
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The slang term for books made of paper
Oct 9, 2023
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What is the difference between robbing and stealing?
Sep 21, 2014
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Saying for "Bomb proof"
Apr 12, 2018
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In the sentence "She says she has no friends," the number of friends is zero, why is "friends" still plural?
Mar 18
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Allow (to) + infinitive, substantive, verb+ -ing
Oct 10, 2013
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Can I say "I speak Chinese as well as Spanish"?
Sep 2, 2016
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Verb tenses when asking a question
Apr 21, 2013
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'I wish to speak WITH a British accent' or 'I wish to speak IN a British accent' - is there a difference?
Apr 7, 2016
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Does the construction "should + of + past participle" exist?
Sep 26, 2021
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So, you found a sentence or phrase... (Why you should cite your source)
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How much editing is too much editing?
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How helpful is it to add "Hope this is helpful!" to an ELL answer?
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"Fixing the grammar should be done in answers not the question"
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Is it okay for users to delete questions and re-ask them verbatim?
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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?