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Should there be a bot deletion reason?

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What is the [reason-why] tag used for?

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Why does adding a bounty to your own question prevent it from being voted closed?

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What can I do to improve my questions that my questions will be accepted again (regrettably I have got the question ban)?

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On average when is it a good idea to reopen a question?

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Why have I got a question ban?

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Why are questions summarily locked?

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Can I download / buy Cambridge English Corpus / Cambridge Learner Corpus? Where to download these corpus?

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Why was my suggested edit rejected?

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The English SE font is unable to display letters with macron and acute correctly

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"I'm against this question primarily because of the username and icon"

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Book of literary genres and character types?

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Etymology - Specifically for medical science and/or adjacent studies

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Where did my old question go?

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Are questions about APA formatting on-topic?

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Gratuitous personal attacks by poster

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Is there a comprehensive grammar of British English from the early twentieth century that you recommend?

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How can we know what dictionary an entry on Dictionary.com is from?

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What resources do I need to consult before asking a question?

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What good reference works on English are available?

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Want to complain about a gratuitous personal attack on the main site

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"Lexico" will be gone in less than a month

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"Why don't we close these duplicates?" vs "Why do we not close these duplicates?" vs "Why do not we close these questions as duplicates?"

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Is there a reference/archive of English verbs and their argument structure (± their theta roles)?

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Is requesting a English word or saying back to its native language on-topic?

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Split migration off from the closure tree?

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The Reader Over Your Shoulder by Robert Graves

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Tag merge request: [expressions] tag into [phrases] tag

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Does the community think that we need a 'grammar, but too basic for ELU: almost any book on grammar will answer this clearly' close-vote reason?

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What are the highest quality textbooks for learning English grammar? [duplicate]

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Problematic migrations to ELL (an ongoing thing)

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Please don't migrate obviously off-topic questions to ELL - it just makes things harder on the author

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Replacing our "research" close reason: Completed

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2023: a year in moderation

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How to find particular topics in CGEL?

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Stack Exchange cannot be excluded from the sociocultural evolution of language, correct?

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How can I delete an "accepted answer"?

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What happened to a question I (might have) posted about the word 'feminazis'?

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Should tag definitions be mandatory?

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Why was my question on neologisms put on hold?

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Thank you, Professor Lawler and Rest in Peace!

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'Answerable by a dictionary' unsuitable for grammar questions

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What's off-topic about the question regarding the history of a slur?

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Is posting a word game accepted?

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A resource for finding letter frequencies with certain restrictions

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How many unique four-letter words are in the English language that fall within the major word classes?


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