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Full disclosure: I have a degree in linguistics, and so I am partial to descriptivist approaches to questions of usage. For me, assertions of correctness or incorrectness that are not reflective of actual usage are highly questionable.

I am a native speaker of American English.

My real name is David Friedland and my e-mail address is [email protected]. Feel free to contact me directly.

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Is there a correct gender-neutral singular pronoun ("his" vs. "her" vs. "their")?
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"Let's" vs. "lets": which is correct?
Sep 23, 2010
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Aug 25, 2010
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"Less" vs. "fewer"
Aug 12, 2010
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"Fill out a form" or "fill in a form"
Aug 20, 2010
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"A/An" preceding a parenthetical statement
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