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Should I put a comma before the last item in a list?

punctuation writing-style comma Dec 20 '12 at 12:36 RegDwighт
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Is there a name for this type of sentence structure: “She looks as though she's been poured into her clothes, and forgot to say 'when'”?

sentence-patterns structure paraprosdokian Apr 21 '11 at 10:16 Lauren
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University rank/stature - How much does it affect one's career post-Ph.D?

career-path postdocs industry Feb 25 '12 at 6:55 TCSGrad
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49 votes
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“A/An” preceding a parenthetical statement

articles indefinite-article parentheses Dec 8 '12 at 13:29 RegDwighт
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45 votes
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What is the difference between “gender” and “sex”?

meaning differences nouns Aug 26 '11 at 12:37 David Schwartz
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38 votes
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“Toward” or “towards”?

differences synonyms Mar 16 '11 at 0:46 The Raven
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37 votes
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Which variant of English should I use when my target audience is the world?

american-english british-english writing dialects Nov 8 '12 at 13:51 RegDwighт
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34 votes
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Why do eleven and twelve get unique words and not end in “-teen”?

etymology numbers Mar 19 at 17:03 tchrist
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31 votes
8 answers

Age and Graduate school

graduate-school graduate-admissions Mar 31 at 20:40 GA in NYC
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28 votes
7 answers

Why do we restrict the definition of Lebesgue Integrability?

measure-theory intuition improper-integrals Oct 19 '12 at 21:41 Henry T. Horton
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23 votes
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Probability for the length of the longest run in $n$ Bernoulli trials

probability combinatorics Jun 15 '12 at 18:44 Matthew Conroy
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23 votes
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Why did only English undergo the Great Vowel Shift, making pronunciation stray so far from spelling?

history phonology Jan 21 at 21:56 RegDwighт
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23 votes
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How should I phrase a question that must be answered with an ordinal number (e.g., the third prime)?

questions ordinals Nov 27 '12 at 9:42 RegDwighт
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23 votes
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How to acquire 3 recommendation letters to apply for jobs when working with 1 advisor?

phd job-search recommendation-letter Jul 25 '12 at 12:30 Aaron
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21 votes
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Is “must” ever grammatical as a past tense verb?

grammaticality verbs past-tense modal-verbs auxiliary-verbs Dec 9 '11 at 10:25 hippietrail
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Can anyone provide me with a list of English words that are their own antonyms?

list-request antonyms Sep 13 '11 at 10:38 delete
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Why is the “ph” pronounced like a “v” in “Stephen”? Is this the only word like that?

etymology pronunciation proper-nouns Mar 1 '12 at 8:48 Hugo
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19 votes
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List of Adobe Lightroom resources

lightroom software Feb 16 '12 at 7:31 MikeW
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19 votes
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Does this device to restrict access to roads have a generic name?

terminology technical generic generic-term May 28 '12 at 2:09 hippietrail
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18 votes
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What are the advantages and disadvantages to completing a Masters program before applying to a Ph. D program?

graduate-school phd graduate-admissions Mar 4 '12 at 13:35 Kieran
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Hardest tongue twister seen

pronunciation speech list-request Nov 27 '11 at 12:17 user2683
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17 votes
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How many people read an individual journal article?

journals bibliometrics Apr 21 '12 at 16:14 Hauser
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15 votes
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What versions of a paper do I still hold rights to?

publishing copyright Mar 23 at 18:23 Ran G.
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15 votes
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Words pertaining to the senses and the corresponding disabilities

word-choice vocabulary single-word-requests adjectives Jul 19 '12 at 15:23 RegDwighт
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15 votes
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What is the difference between “gift” and “present”?

word-choice differences nouns synonyms Aug 19 '12 at 0:39 Community
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13 votes
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What is the difference between an apocalypse and a cataclysm?

word-choice differences synonyms nouns Jan 12 at 23:57 Cerberus
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11 votes
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“Toward” or “towards” – what would a native speaker use?

word-choice prepositions american-english british-english formality Jul 16 '12 at 9:23 RegDwighт
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How to choose the most worthwhile research papers to define my thesis?

reading phd-thesis May 5 '12 at 21:41 Ivar Persson
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9 votes
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What's the difference between “egotism” and “egoism”?

meaning nouns differences Jun 7 '11 at 13:01 RegDwighт
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Differences between “propensity”, “predilection” and “proclivity”

meaning differences nouns synonyms May 19 at 22:58 Shreekant Sapatnekar
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