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If an insertion in parentheses ends with a smiley, how do I distinguish between the two?

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What is the word for a university student who has a job at university?

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Respectful Noun for Really Hard Worker

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Difference between "remain" and "be left"

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Hypernym for "addition" and "subtraction"

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Are the rules regarding absolute adjectives too absolute?

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Why does XLAT mean 'translate'?

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Is there a pessimistic counterpart to the term "Pollyanna"?

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What's a good opposite of "keep track"?

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"License" and "licence"

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Is there a word for laughing when faced with a hopeless situation?

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Where does "otay" come from?

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Meaning of "duck"

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Word meaning "likely to cause controversy?"

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Can anyone explain the use of determiners in this passage?

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Word or phrase for multilingual pun/word play

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Where does the phrase “run code” or “run software” come from? Why “run”?

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English equivalent for the Persian expression "To keep one's face red with slap"

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How do I hyphenate an open-form compound word with another that should be hyphenated?

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"Measure" vs. "measurement"

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Does 'moonlighting' mean 'illegal work'?

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Why is it not appropriate to appropriate?

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Antoymn for slowcoach?

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Part of speech for "please" followed by a verb

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As "postscript" is one word, why do some abbreviate it as "p.s."?

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Why did some English verbs lose nasal endings?

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Is "worser" correct grammatically?

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Is "pronunciate" a word?

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How can I describe a person who does not get to the point?

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What is the word for "Slow raining"?

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Is Valley Girl speak "like", entering the language?

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Origin of and why "knock" the socks off?

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A term for "it's raining while the sun is shining"

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Closest idiom to the Arabic: "You made my neck as small as a sesame seed"

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"Were happily recovering" vs. "were, happily, recovering"

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I'll take you home / I'll bring you home

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"Lead to" vs "result in"

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What is the difference between using a colon and a semi-colon to join two sentences?

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Should it be 10 US$ or US$ 10?

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Can "drink" be used as an uncountable noun?

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What are the indigenous English words for a prostitute?

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Is there a word for "wild animals that aren't afraid of people"?

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What does "Nothing doing as he took it right to him" mean?

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Is there an idiom or phrase set for completing a task, or completion of an event?

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Meaning of "next weekend"

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"It is good for me." or "It is good to me."

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Should we include or leave out the preposition "on"

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Is the game, "go," a proper noun? What about "checkers" or "chess"?

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Do Brits understand rhyming slang or are they sometimes puzzled by it too?

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Is 'major' in a musical context a noun or an adjective?

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