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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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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?
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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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Looking for a word to describe the sound of the morning as hundreds of birds begin singing before sunrise?