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Visit us at (the) booth 24, (the) room 56 etc. It's wrong, but why?

"Snub out a cigarette" for "stub out a cigarette" in AmEng

american-english vocabulary usage

Cyclists, cyclers, bikers, and bike riders in modern day AmE

american-english vocabulary usage

The phrase "never even" in spoken English - Bookish ? Old-fashioned ? Sophisticated?

usage appropriate

If only had I known it! / If only I had known it!

grammar usage syntactic-analysis sentence subject-verb-inversion

"nervous about" and "nervous of"

prepositions usage

Titus Andronicus: "-She is delivered, lords, she is delivered. -To whom?"

etymology usage participial

she <wet her hair> or she <wetted her hair>?

Is there any difference in plain meaning or nuance between "At the start, ..." and "In the beginning, ..."?

phrases differences usage phrase-meaning

Usage of the word "glitch"

word-usage usage

Is it possible to "revenge" a situation?

grammar verbs usage

Use of "do we" in the sentence "Only after 10pm do we actually sort out the mess."

usage reference

Voting "wrongly."

"slick" vs. "slippery" for a road, sidewalk, etc. in NAmEng vernacular

usage dialects north-american-english vernacular

Synonyms for “untilted”

adjectives synonyms usage

"taxwise," "tax wise," or "tax-wise"

usage orthography colloquialisms

"Poor as Job's cat"

usage dialects colloquialisms regional

Does "nails" imply painted nails? [closed]

meaning word-choice usage

The name for a flowery expression - not a cliché [closed]

single-word-requests phrases usage

use of "personal" when referring to a collective body