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FumbleFingers
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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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So, you found a sentence or phrase... (Why you should cite your source)
Jun 24, 2014
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How much editing is too much editing?
Jan 25, 2013
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How helpful is it to add "Hope this is helpful!" to an ELL answer?
Feb 16, 2015
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"Fixing the grammar should be done in answers not the question"
Feb 13, 2017
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Is it okay for users to delete questions and re-ask them verbatim?
Jul 23, 2014
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Native speaker answering questions
Jan 31, 2015
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Can't ELLearners be expected to do internet searches?
Nov 9, 2014
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Call to stop answering off-topic questions
Feb 23, 2014
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Is ELL getting too PC ("Politically Correct")?
Mar 5, 2019
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Meaning of Up/Down votes against ELL Meta questions
Feb 12, 2013
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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?