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  2. Dan Rhodenizer
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    Italics for thoughts?

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  4. Louanne Learning

    Spelling out numbers

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  5. Rad Scribbler

    Writers Chart

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  6. tsukiyukiko

    Need help with one of my fantasy world's mechanics

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  7. iowawriter

    The AP Style Guide

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  8. Madman

    WordWeb

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  9. EFMingo

    Strategies for Essay Writing

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  10. Christopher McLaren

    What do you call the word which starts a rhymes scheme?

    Christopher McLaren, Aug 7, 2019
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  11. Iain Aschendale

    Mrs. John Smith III

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  12. Bobby Burrows

    Poetic License

    Bobby Burrows, Nov 6, 2018
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  13. mrieder79

    How to punctuate the title of magazine articles in fiction

    mrieder79, Jul 29, 2018
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    Jul 29, 2018
  14. John Calligan

    Tock Tick

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    John Calligan
    Dec 22, 2017
  15. GB reader

    On footnotes

    GB reader, Sep 15, 2017
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    Sep 15, 2017
  16. rktho

    Writing a song in chiasmus

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  17. Anaspiringauthor

    Capital Letters for Job Titles

    Anaspiringauthor, Aug 26, 2017
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    Aug 26, 2017
  18. waitingforzion

    Poetic Prose Style: An accident of predetermined vocabulary?

    waitingforzion, Aug 25, 2017
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  19. AlaskaRoberts

    Grammar Foreign Slang

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  20. qp83

    What do you call the walkway/catwalk/balcony-thingy?

    qp83, Jun 7, 2016
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  21. waitingforzion

    Books on Prose Style

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    waitingforzion
    Mar 15, 2016
  22. Wreybies

    Marsupial vs. Mammal (regionalism Q. for Australians)

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  23. PrincessSofia

    use of oral speech and regional dialects

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  24. writer one

    I will always wonder

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  25. writer one

    Sentence structure

    writer one, Sep 26, 2015
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  26. carsun1000

    Questions in dialogues

    carsun1000, Jun 24, 2015
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    Jun 24, 2015
  27. dillseed

    Alternative okay?

    dillseed, May 4, 2015
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    dillseed
    May 4, 2015
  28. Sifunkle

    Resource wanted (phonaesthetics)

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    Dec 7, 2014
  29. dillseed

    No dangling hyphens here!

    dillseed, May 30, 2014
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    dillseed
    May 30, 2014
  30. dillseed

    OWL@Purdue's Reply on Hyphenated Words after Verbs

    dillseed, May 29, 2014
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    dillseed
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  31. dillseed

    Punctuation Occupational/Formal Titles after a Name

    dillseed, May 7, 2014
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    dillseed
    May 7, 2014
  32. hvb

    Tom Keneally

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  33. dillseed

    "Had" -- Past Perfect

    dillseed, Apr 21, 2014
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    dillseed
    Apr 21, 2014
  34. Thetrendsetter

    The word induced

    Thetrendsetter, Jun 14, 2013
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    Thetrendsetter
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  35. XtremeOne1

    Writing Past or Present Tense

    XtremeOne1, Apr 30, 2013
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    XtremeOne1
    Apr 30, 2013
  36. mbinks89

    Neologisms?

    mbinks89, Mar 6, 2013
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    mbinks89
    Mar 6, 2013
  37. dillseed

    Bp finale

    dillseed, Mar 1, 2013
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    dillseed
    Mar 1, 2013
  38. LuminousTyto

    Complete ist of coordinating conjections?

    LuminousTyto, Aug 9, 2012
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    LuminousTyto
    Aug 9, 2012
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