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phenry

Bothell, WA

http://www.creativeisland.net

I'm a technical writer by profession who does some very light Web site development as a sidelight.

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Why do people say “to be honest”?
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Why do Americans go 'downtown' whilst people in the UK go 'up town'?
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48
Change spelling check language for a Document in Microsoft Word 2010
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43
What is the name of this “yawning like” movement?
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41
What is the proper way to write the plural of a single letter? (another apostrophe question)
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40
How should I address a woman who serves food and drinks to passengers on a plane?
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34
Notepad++ HTML Tidy
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31
Which is correct: “I am drinking ice cream” or “I am eating ice cream”?
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31
Plurals of acronyms, letters, numbers — use an apostrophe or not?
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31
What word starts with “pro”, ends with “ive”, and means generally-accepted or -expected
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27
“When I was in college…” Do you really mean college? Or university?
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26
“based in” vs “based out of ”
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25
What's the fastest way to level up to level 2 in ingress?
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25
Move Directory across SVN repository using Tortoise SVN
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25
What anti-virus software is easiest for novice users to keep up with and not get “scared”?
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24
How do you deal with Internet Explorer?
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23
What is the meaning of the word “context”?
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22
Language Gibberish
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22
How long would it take to transfer 1TB over USB 2.0?
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21
Term for situation where alternative choice is not really one
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20
How to change the name of a reviewer in Word?
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20
Can a hyphen be used without anything on the right side?
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19
Using “to” twice in a row
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19
'Grasshopper' as a term for a neophyte
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19
Describing a group of people who lie down in a public place to send a political message
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18
Web Usability: Save and Cancel … or … Cancel and Save?
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17
Difference between “Excuse me” and “Sorry”
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17
What does (R-TN) after a name mean?
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16
The use of “not” in idiomatic English
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16
Surely *some* wordsmiths must love America[ns]?
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