nohat

San Jose, CA

nohat.net

Age: 32

top accounts reputation activity favorites subscriptions

Should I use a semicolon or a dash to connect two closely related sentences?

punctuation semicolon dash asked Aug 5 '10 at 23:02

english.stackexchange.com

25 votes

Need to be able to search for “stop words” on English.SE because they are often the most salient search term

feature-request bug status-declined search stackexchange asked Aug 28 '10 at 18:25

meta.stackoverflow.com

21 votes

How to prevent an endless deluge of questions about “that” and “which”

discussion questions search exact-duplicates asked Oct 8 '10 at 15:14

meta.stackoverflow.com

19 votes

How do you spell Muammar Qaddafi?

orthography proper-nouns loan-words asked Feb 23 '11 at 3:11

english.stackexchange.com

15 votes

How to pass variable number of arguments to a PHP function

php varargs asked Sep 14 '09 at 16:37

stackoverflow.com

12 votes

What is the difference between “lay” and “lie”?

verbs differences confusables asked Aug 5 '10 at 22:28

english.stackexchange.com

11 votes

Is lemonade better when made with simple syrup?

drinks sugar lemonade syrup asked Jul 16 '10 at 21:38

cooking.stackexchange.com

11 votes

Trilateration using 3 latitude and longitude points, and 3 distances

distance geodesy asked Jul 22 '10 at 20:19

gis.stackexchange.com

10 votes

How to make large clear ice cubes

freezing asked Jul 24 '10 at 0:30

cooking.stackexchange.com

10 votes

Refrigerating olive oil

storage-method oil asked Sep 9 '10 at 23:29

cooking.stackexchange.com

Top Answers

Is there a correct gender-neutral, singular pronoun (“his” versus “her” versus “their”)?

english.stackexchange.com

When is it appropriate to end a sentence in a preposition?

english.stackexchange.com

“Email” or “e-mail”?

english.stackexchange.com

Why do some words have two past tense forms (e.g. “dreamed” vs. “dreamt”)?

english.stackexchange.com

Why there is still Case sensitivity in some Programming Language?

programmers.stackexchange.com

“A/An” preceding a parenthetical statement

english.stackexchange.com

“I'm well” vs. “I'm good” vs. “I'm doing well”, etc

english.stackexchange.com

“Less” vs. “fewer”

english.stackexchange.com

When did it become correct to add an 's' to a singular possessive already ending in 's'?

english.stackexchange.com

Why is anyone in a porn movie considered a porn star?

english.stackexchange.com

How do I tell if a variable has a numeric value in Perl?

stackoverflow.com

Which is correct: “math” or “maths”?

english.stackexchange.com

Is “penultimate” commonly used?

english.stackexchange.com

Regulatory bodies and authoritative dictionaries for English

english.stackexchange.com

When is it acceptable to use internet abbreviations (such as “u” or “r”)?

english.stackexchange.com

“Let's” vs. “lets”: which is correct?

english.stackexchange.com

What are some expressions that can be used to end an email?

english.stackexchange.com

What does the joke with the punchline about Chrome and Hollandaise mean, and why is it funny?

english.stackexchange.com

Why is it incorrect to start a sentence with “and”?

english.stackexchange.com

When should I use “a” vs “an”?

english.stackexchange.com

Legos not LEGO?

english.stackexchange.com

When should the word “God” be capitalized?

english.stackexchange.com

Is there any other way you can “wax” as you do when you “wax philosophical”?

english.stackexchange.com

Longest word in English without repeated letter

english.stackexchange.com

Is “forte” pronounced “fort” or “for-tay”?

english.stackexchange.com

Is Valley Girl speak (e.g. “like”) entering the language?

english.stackexchange.com

I can run faster than _____. (1) him (2) he?

english.stackexchange.com

Is it correct to use “their” instead of “his or her”?

english.stackexchange.com

Why do written English vowels differ from other Latin-based orthographies?

english.stackexchange.com

Why is Q used in some words instead of K or C

english.stackexchange.com