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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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Did an ostrich pull off its own head?
May 24, 2011
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How could Darwin be sure all life has a common origin
May 12, 2011
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Is ET watching "I Love Lucy" right now?
Jul 10, 2011
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Will a mother bird abandon her young if touched by a human?
May 12, 2011
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Are there 20,000 English words in the average adult's vocabulary?
Feb 20, 2012
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Is there anything inexplicable about how the WTC Twin Towers collapsed? [duplicate]
Apr 14, 2011
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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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Why is "He knows to swim" incorrect?

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