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Are you identifying a difference between "living off" and "living off of"? Yes. Absolutely, tony h. Everything I said was meant to apply to the phrase "living off of". Sorry for the mistake. Now that you mention it, tony h, "living off" and "living off of" can be used interchangeably, and will only...

I like it: when it's chilly, I wear my chullo.
The ear-flaps, though, are what distinguish this hat from other knitted headwear. I have lots of knitted hats, but if I need the one with ear-flaps (my chullo) none of the others will do.

And what about amowous? And powous? And my favorite dinosaur, Stegasowous?

Hi azz, Sentence A is by far the most grammatically correct, in my opinion. I would switch things up a little, though: "They gave prizes to twenty Colombian and Brazilian authors." See, you don't want to separate your verb(?) and subject(?)/object(?) from each other by too many words. It sounds bett...

. . . we do hear "off of" this side of The Pond, but it is severely frowned upon. There is a negative connotation to making a living "off of" something, as opposed to living by one's honest efforts (toiling, teaching, writing, throwing a ball, whatever). To live "off of" something means to be a par...

I'd call those "ear flaps". Ear muffs are something else, in my neck of the tundra. Never called it a Laplander hat, but yeah -- it's definitely what you see when you look up the name. Come to think of it, I've never really called that kind of hat anything, 'cept maybe "the hat my friend made when s...

Dang, gdwd, you beat me to the punch! (. . . which is not too hard to do, since I show up so rarely.) Would I be completely wrong to call this thing an urn? A samovar? Does a samovar HAVE to contain only hot tea? To me, "dispenser" applies to other stuff: cup dispenser, tic-tac dispenser, pez dispen...

Oh my god, Erik. I thought we had it bad, but . . . well, we still have it very bad.
Your coverage is excellent, although I'll have to read it a few more times to get all the nuance.
And like Bob, I plan to invite people with Brexit questions to look at your post. Many thanks for the summary!

Then I thought that making it a touch-screen would be cool. Except it gets real hot. Bad idea. I hate to tell you how I tested the heat on the griddle when I was a hotel breakfast cook oh-so-many years ago. I didn't have to make that mistake more than once. Anthony Bourdain would have been very dis...

So, I was having trouble understanding the intended meaning of "dog whistle" politics/issue, because I was stuck on the kind of dog whistle we were talking about: 1) the device - a whistle, inaudible to humans, which is brought up to the lips and blown, or 2) a short, sharp high note, tweeted by a g...

In my opinion, the problem with C is the redundancy of "and also". You can say "and", or "also", but saying them together is repetitive.
Hi there, Kippiis. And "cheers" to you, too!

OPLWT, Bobinwales! (Translation: Outright, Prolonged Laughter, With Tears.)
What a great way to begin my Saturday. Thanks.

Yeah, trolley, the use of "authoress" by the interviewer in your opening post was weird and jarring. Anachronistic. Who knows what they were thinking. My guess is, they probably weren't. Say, what is a brief and concise gender-neutral term for warehouseman? Warehouse worker? By the way, I'm not one ...

Quick, someone please take that man's driver's license away from him.

This is an area that allows for, and requires, a lot of flexibility. People have to be able to use a gender-specific term if it's needed in order to clarify meaning. If context doesn't make a headline clear, then yes, a gender-specific word has to be used: "Key Grip Won't Keep Hands Off Best Boy" wi...