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Ever wanted to understand where the phrase “needs washed” comes from? This is a good site to check out maps and explanations of local phrasings

When I first learnt English, I thought this type of formulation only worked with a few verbs like “do”, “have”,“should” (ex: “Should I do this? No, I shouldn’t.”)...

Hello, English is my second language. I was just reading a sentence where I got a little confused with the use of “their”:...

The first time I came across the usage of this phrase was in the movie Hellraiser, and I had no idea this was a common saying. Clearly though, there must be a double meaning there in the movie that I couldn’t fully grasp without knowing the more colloquial meaning....

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Going off of this sequence of adjectives, “East Coast” would be categorized as origin (7) and “spicy” would categorized as type (9), correct?

For example, if you say that “feed” isn’t a real word because there is a better way to say “issued someone a fee,” but the real word is “feed” as in “to provide with nourishment,” what would that error in judgment be called?

"I'll woo her again! One day she's mine!"...

You know when something can be either “or” or “and?” You may also say it is “and” and or “or”; “or” and/or “and,” if you will. That’s the inclusive or!...

For example:...

I did a quick search on google and, not only I see both versions, I even see both of them in the same document....

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I’m desperately looking for antonyms or somewhat opposites to “procedural”. Checked on some antonym dictionaries but didn’t find anything. More specifically it’s about “procedural knowledge”....

I’ve linked this several times. Here it is. Just get (and read) this book....

As a non-native speaker I encounter this phrase from time to time (in podcasts and such) and I’d like to understand the use (beside the literal meaning which is obvious)....

I remember this clip from the wire where they discuss the difference between evacuating a place and evacuating a person. The Wire - EvacuateFound one example of what they discussed in an NPR article today and is made me laugh.A woman evacuate her horse.

Prepositions are hard, and these are the ones that confuse me the most:...

What are the comparative and superlative of the adjective “fun”? I’d say “more fun” and “most fun”…...

The em dash is called the em dash because on old typewriters it was as long as an M. Why do I feel closer to this punctuation mark than the others? It could be partly because I ignored it for so long that it is the last punctuation mark that I got to know, and when I found it, I learned that it could do the work of several other...

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My Microsoft account at work made me re-think this because it is pushing me to add more commas that I usually do....

Of course the official rule is that for countable things, like apples, we say fewer, as in, “Why are there fewer apples?” And for things that you can’t really count, you use less, as in “We need more dream time and less screen time.”...

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