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A community for questioning, nitpicking, and debating the quirks and rules of the English language.
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What is this triangular symbol?
While waiting for the subway to arrive, I noticed this mysterious symbol between
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Treatment of abbreviations and superscript items in full capital case
I am working on a documentary film and have hit upon a conundrum that we hope one of the fabulous Pain in the English grammarians can solve. We are using the full capital case ("all caps") to identify our experts, in a text box that pops up below them dur
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Past perfect with until
I have an issue with the use of the past perfect tense with "until" (and sometimes "before"). Can you please tell me which of these sentences is correct and why? She hadn't realized that she was addicted to nicotine until she smoked ten cigarettes a day.
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The company 'are'
I cringe whenever I hear the way Brits say: 'the company 'are' or 'the school board 'are' voted in by the parents. What is really frightening to me is that Americans are starting to use the same construction. My research tells me that Brits treat collecti
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"badly miscalculated" - double negatives?
I was taught that one should never use double negatives. But I was also taught that if you do, it can have the opposite meaning. Example: The box does not contain nothing. means: The box contains something. So I heard the President's speech. Note that he
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