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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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"ma jolie femme" vs "ma femme jolie"
Feb 26 '12
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Are Francophones in general adopting this English swearword?
Feb 19 '14
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Is "mettre de l'eau dans son moulin" cognate with "all grist to the mill"?
Jan 29 '14
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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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Why is "He knows to swim" incorrect?
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Looking for a word to describe the sound of the morning as hundreds of birds begin singing before sunrise?

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