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Bookmark or Share- "a change in ..." vs "a change to ...", any difference?Brian J. Fink Brian J. Fink. 1,085 1 1 gold badge 10 10 silver badges 17 17 bronze badges. 2. That's a ...
- Which is correct: “I’m done” or “I have finished”?These short sentences perhaps disguise the fact that there are two questions here.. At Motivated Grammar is an article claiming that 'done' and 'finished' are interchangeable here.
- Is there a word for a person who gives out too many extraneous details?Stack Exchange Network. Stack Exchange network consists of 183 Q&A communities including Stack Overflow, the largest, most trusted online community for developers to learn, share their knowledge, and build their careers.
- What happened to the “‑est” and “‑eth” verb suffixes in English?To expand on this, morphological leveling isn't a random phenomenon. It can be difficult to track the precise reasons for a specific change, but we can conjecture that it might be similar to issues like verb agreement in Modern English ("they/you is").
- Where did the phrase "I don't give a rat's ass" come from?I would love to know the origin of this saying. The OED gives the first citation of the phrase from Leon Uris, "Battle Cry" in 1953 (but if it appeared in print then, it would certainly have been around for a while before that.
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