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Could you please tell me which sentence is correct: If you have a pregnant she-goat, or a camel that is about to give birth to a baby, you should not...
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Do you do the Hokey Cokey? If so, are you guilty of a hate crime? Please read on: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/3883838/Doing...
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I was hoping could clarify this for me. I pronounce it "Copt-hall" whereas my colleagues call it "Cop-thall", i think the latter just...
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Hi, I'm looking for a complete list of english common nouns , for a word game. I searched around the net and didn't find one of good quality. Can...
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We have a rule, let's call it Rule W : if clauses—the traditional rules. According to traditional rules, you use the subjunctive to describe an occurrence...
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I'm discussing hyperbole first in order to help clarify what I mean by the phrase "rarely articulated rules" in my title. Also, I beg forgiveness...
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I am writing an essay on complimentary distribution and free variation of allophones. I have come across several processes that occur in speech and I am...
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please find below setence everyone else at testimony meeting seemed to be able to testify that the BOM was true- I turned myself in knots trying to believe...
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What's your opinion on Obama's statement, underlined here? I know this is not who we are. This is not who we are as Americans. We're not a...
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Inspired by this extract from a Geoff Nunberg piece on Language Log, I wanted to ask the same question of members of this forum: Why do linguists get no...
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(As originally found here ). Last night a school was vandalised by youths on motorbikes who were pulling wheelies on the football pitch. Stuart Brown owns...
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When did singular "they" fall out of use and why did prescriptvists "ban" its use?
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I hope you do not mind but I'd like to enquire about the recently screened: The Adventure of English. I thought this was an excellent series...
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'the uses of the -ing form of English verbs are so various (some verbal, some adjectival, some nominal, some adverbial, some just hard to classify...
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Who keeps the record of English (English) spelling and grammar? If there is no record, what's stopping people spelling words wrong and claiming they're...
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Hello, I am hoping someone can help me out with a question I have to answer. I have been asked to "Exemplify the way in which the appearance of a...
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Ignoring polysynthetic and agglutinative languages (which I have no wish to do other than for the purpose of the question I pose) languages may be placed...
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Hello, I could really do with some help with this one; I am writing my university personal statement for and English language degree. Should I use dashes...
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Does expletive insertion inside words happen in languages apart from English?
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I wonder who could tell me the proccess that Chomsky esteblished he's TG Grammar Theory?
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Hi everyone, when we say "something", it is defined as "a part of one thing" right? so it can't mean the whole thing literally...
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The following 'diction' is wrong according to prescriptive, but why? 'existence' for life 'novel' for new 'capture' for take 'inimical' for hostile 'demise...
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I cannot find a linguistic term for this phenomenon, and I wonder if it occurs elsewhere in English.
More and more we hear "but that's a whole n...
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