In the bad old days-back before the internet,when woolly months roamed the earth, and nobody offered free shipping on anything.you could use the dictionary .You could use a thesaurus.There were usage books,grammars,and the local reference librarian.But otherwise you were out of luck: sure,there might be an expert with the answer somewhere, but how could you reach him or her.
Lately, through, it seems that you can't even open a browser window without stumbling on a new site offering to help connect people with answer to their questions.Though most of these are general-interest sites,language queries are a popular topic and indeed,some sites embed full dictionaries and other reference works into their sites.
The most encouraging thing about the new surge in question and answer sites is that they reflect a deep human faith in the knowability of all things:if we ask just the right question in just the right place and reach just the right person with it,real understanding can be ours.
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