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maybe it's a regional thang. Hmmm, maybe. But it's usually safe to take BBC English as the standard, albeit a slightly poncy one. You live in Essex, doncha?  Down Saaath in Sussex, mate. Biiiiiig difference!
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Hmmm...I think I tend to use en for the verb, but when it becomes a noun I would use in (inquiry). I get the feeling that's an arbitrary distinction I made up some time ago and now stick with.
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Emigrate and immigrate are, of course, quite different things. They are as different as imply and infer or bring and take.
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And The Survey Said...1,680,000 people on Google voted for "INQUIRE" while only... 697,000 people, mostly Brits and readers of the National Enquirer, voted for "ENQUIRE". Makes you think. 
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697,000 people, mostly Brits and readers of the National Enquirer, voted for "ENQUIRE"
Mostly Brits?! The first result is the Cincinnati Enquirer. Well, it is when you Google "Enquirer", which, strangely, garners many more hits than "enquire." I don't get 697,000 for either of them.
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