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I couldn't find a tool to search a user with the highest number of questions or answers on the EL&U site. My random observation has led me to find the following users with perhaps the most number ...
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I am one of the senior members of EL&U Stack Exchange. In 2017 and 2018, I used to observe a lot of views and upvotes in posts (answers and questions). The viewership and upvotes have declined ...
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Update – November 10th, 2025: As of today, we have also appointed Matt E. Эллен to be a mod on ELU to help out for the time being. This will be the final appointment for this, and the community ...
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Is there any printed resource for the English lexicon, which excludes words derived from Latin and Greek? If not, is there any online source? Background I have a really nice book called "Word ...
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Someone with the power to delete comments is selectively deleting mine while allowing others of a similar nature to remain. Here's an example question where I commented informationally on the meaning ...
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I read this when trying to ask a new question: "Sorry, we are no longer accepting questions from your account because most of your questions need improvement or are out of scope" This is ...
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I have been suspended from ELL for 14 days, which included the chat function. But I cannot chat here on ELU either and got the message in the title of this question. How is the Chat on ELU related to ...
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I am looking for online tools to translate specialized or technical terms. Do you have any suggestions?
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On the ‘English Language and Usage’ site To ask a question on this site. I want to inform the writers on the site how the word “doobie” came into existence to mean marijuana cigarette. But to comment ...
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I am talking about this question: If the English word "tear" (of the eye) is cognate to Latin "lacrima" and Greek "δᾰ́κρῠ", why is there no trace of 'k'? Why is ...
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Just FYI, there's now a chat bot in the sidebar for all main sites (not on the meta sites). And also apparently attribution is totally negotiable no matter what the company has stated prior to them ...
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I'd like to submit the undermentioned to english.stackexchange.com/posts/298766/edit: Formal yes, universal no. [`Grammarist.com`](http://grammarist.com/spelling/letter-names/) provides one: > We ...
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I'm asking for usages -in British accent- of 44 phonetic symbols: Vowel Phonemes (20) Short vowels: /ɪ, e, æ, ʌ, ʊ, ɒ, ə/ Long vowels: /iː, ɑː, ɔː, uː, ɜː/ Diphthongs: /eɪ, aɪ, ɔɪ, aʊ, əʊ, ɪə, eə,...
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Please do not waste your own time or that of others by perfunctorily closing historical questions on our site from the first few years of its existence, particularly those that were asked in good ...
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Other sites, like Stack Overflow for Teams, make deleted posts invisible with some exceptions: Deleted posts Deleting a post does not permanently delete it from the database. Instead, Stack Overflow ...
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