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Does English have genuine literary conversation without the use of Latin and Greek words?

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Why do so many loan words have a different pronunciations of letters like X and Q (among others)?

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Information Selection with Because

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The acceptability of verbal phrase ellipsis and subject-auxiliary inversion in triple modal sentences

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What is the name of this sound change, and do we have it in English?

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Is there any type of app that trains my english skills?

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Why is the vowel in “caught” in General American English transcribed to /ɔ/

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Similar and cognate words between Swedish and Iranian are related to which historical era?

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Impossible bigrams in the English Language

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Was the word 'vehicle' first used as a concrete noun or as an abstract noun?

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What is the difference between attributive adjective and predicative adjective?

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What is a psych verb?

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Does "and" come from the PIE word for "and"?

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