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"I am a teacher of English." or "I am a teacher in English." Which one is correct? [closed]
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Difference between paradigm and example [closed]
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"One red light town" meaning
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Is "back to front" used in American English?
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When someone tells you, "you're a trip"
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Is "bump into their conversation" a correct sentence to express getting into others conversation unexpectedly?
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Is “ill at ease” perfectly interchangeable with “uncomfortable”?
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What should I say instead of "you first"? [closed]
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Difference between supplemental noun phrase and absolute clause?
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Is this grammatically correct: It depends if my employers agree or not
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gourmand and gourmet
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What’s a good English expression for the Chinese idiom "buying horse bones with much gold" (千金买马骨)?
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Is there a more accurate way to describe "short vowels" and "long vowels"?
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Word for someone who knows what a person is going through but just doesn’t care
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What is the difference between "counterintuitive" and "contradiction"?
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Is there a word for a button that is not being held?
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Is "Convertor" a valid word in everyday use? [duplicate]
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How to pronounce Türkiye in English?
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A word for a non-famous person/thing you have heard a lot about
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Ellipsis (Gapping) and Prepositions
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Does "no worries" imply "don't you worry"?
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Is the ‘t’ in ‘witch’ considered a silent t?
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What do you call a person that goes for functionality, yet not for the beauty of set things?
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"Functionality" rather than "function"?
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Is the expression "As it goes without saying" technically sound and formal?
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Why do we say "commit" a crime?
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What is the relative frequency of English graphemes and/or phonemes in printed UK English texts/spoken English?
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What is the word to describe an action taken for ones self?
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What is a proper word for (almost) identical products?
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Use of generic "one" without having to revel the gender
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Word for a contemptuous person?
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About the use of 'say please'
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Does the type of play on words in "Some people are immune to good advice" have a name?
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When something is published in instalments, is there a word for that?
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What do you call the male equivalent to Cougar (woman)?
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Spelling out number ranges?
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What's the English equivalent of the Italian 'sputare nel piatto dove si mangia'?
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How does suffixing adjectives with "ass" work out grammatically?
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Is there a preposition that combines "to" and "from"?
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Translation for German word "Kür" as in "Pflicht und Kür"
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Confusion regarding "since" vs "for" [migrated]
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Can "network" be a mass noun?
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what is the story behind the word 'Sky' meaning 'the most amazing girl you can ever meet'? [closed]
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Put someone on the same pedestal as another
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Does it make sense to end this sentence with "manually"
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Is there a term that describes words like "Amerikkka" or "Obummer"?
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Is there a word for the concept of not repeating your parents' mistakes?
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Etymology: "bricked" (to render an electronic device inoperable)
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Would you call this a plaque, or would you use another word?
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An adjective for something peaceful but sad?
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Why the sad face?
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A phrase that means “feigning being violated”
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superior "at" vs "in" which preposition to use?
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Are there other proposed translations of "aelfheres" in Beowulf than a name?
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What is an adjective to describe something that burns at a hot temperature?
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is there another phrase entirely that is another way of saying "I have mixed feelings"?
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Question about an AP Style rule
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In the American regionalism "Put 'er there, pardner!" why is the hand a she?
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"completely" usage confusion
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An abrupt change of tense in a dialogue
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