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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.

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So, you found a sentence or phrase... (Why you should cite your source)
Jun 24 '14
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How much editing is too much editing?
Jan 25 '13
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How helpful is it to add "Hope this is helpful!" to an ELL answer?
Feb 16 '15
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"Fixing the grammar should be done in answers not the question"
Feb 13 '17
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Is it okay for users to delete questions and re-ask them verbatim?
Jul 23 '14
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Native speaker answering questions
Jan 31 '15
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Can't ELLearners be expected to do internet searches?
Nov 9 '14
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Call to stop answering off-topic questions
Feb 23 '14
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Is ELL getting too PC ("Politically Correct")?
Mar 5 '19
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Meaning of Up/Down votes against ELL Meta questions
Feb 12 '13
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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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Why is "He knows to swim" incorrect?
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Looking for a word to describe the sound of the morning as hundreds of birds begin singing before sunrise?

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