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Clinally is a word

'Clinally' - definition, the gradual change in certain characteristics exhibited by members of a series of adjacent populations of organisms of the same species. Urselius (talk) 08:13, 22 July 2020 (UTC)

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Pound[-]for[-]pound

Greetings. I noticed you hyphenated the term pound for pound at Floyd Mayweather Jr., and rightfully so. Therefore could you offer an opinion here for a potential article(s) move? Mac Dreamstate (talk) 19:22, 4 March 2021 (UTC)

Noun following "like"

"Like" needs to be followed by a noun:

Almost true, but not quite. "Like" needs to be followed by a noun *phrase*. A noun phrase is sometimes just a noun, but may also be a long convoluted string of words that end up amounting to the idea of a noun. The "like" always refers to the entire contents of its following noun phrase, not just one particular noun within that phrase. See the "Noun phrase" article for details. TooManyFingers (talk) 20:45, 4 August 2021 (UTC)

True. I had both single nouns and nounal phrases in mind when I said that, per formal style, the word "like" must be followed by a noun. (The sentence I altered in the article I edited to that end had "like" modifying a prepositional phrase.) 04:03, 7 August 2021 (UTC)

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"Due to" misused as an adverb

You may not like "due to a compromise of user passwords at iCloud", but "due to" is not an adverb there--it has a noun phrase as an object. It is, rather, an adverbial preposition, and it's perfectly fine: it is not "misuse". Please see this, the section "Usage". Thank you. Drmies (talk) 17:05, 1 June 2022 (UTC)

You're right; it modifies not a verb, but a noun. I so often see the phrase misused here that I was careless. It's good to know that Wiki editors are on the ball. Mucketymuck (talk) 17:14, 1 June 2022 (UTC)

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My edit was for style's sake. Beats me how it seems to have taken up Dan Fogelberg, whom I know of only as the folksinger of "Leader of the Band."

At first glance, your alert made me think I'd inadvertently cut out some of the "Rain" article's text, but now I see that the Fogelberg note was an addition, not a deletion. Maybe somebody else was editing the same page at the same time and their more material edit in some way became conflated with mine. Or somehow I reverted a previous edit, although I don't care to page through all the previous versions to try to find a matching one. (Or some party has hijacked my Wikipedia account.)

I will add that Wikipedia's software can be a touch dodgy. Even as I write this reply in a text box, I notice the preview displayed below failing to register a word I've inserted, making partial nonsense of my prose, and have had to go back and mend it. Mucketymuck (talk) 20:34, 25 February 2023 (UTC)

My sincere apologies. I can't blame anyone but myself. I reverted an edit and mistakenly ended up on your talk page (I can't explain how) and left the warning. Thanks for your edit, which was much needed. Sundayclose (talk) 20:42, 25 February 2023 (UTC)

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