| Nice Question | Question score of 10 or more. This badge can be awarded multiple times. |
Daniel δ earned this badge 32 times |
may 22 at 18:34
Why is “sergeant” pronounced “sargent”?
feb 17 at 22:34
“Clean as a whistle” — why is a whistle considered appropriate for describing cleanliness?
dec 11 at 21:36
Why is “sherbet” pronounced “sherbert” so much?
sep 1 at 1:16
Where did the phrase “used to” come from?
mar 12 '12 at 16:11
If we say “Socrates”, “Hippocrates”, etc, why don't we say “Aristoteles”? Why “Aristotle”?
mar 3 '12 at 8:10
What reasoning is behind the names of the trigonometric functions “sine”, “secant” and “tangent”?
nov 28 '11 at 0:51
Why doesn't “ninth” have an “e”, like “ninety”?
nov 22 '11 at 1:24
Why is “margarine” pronounced with a soft “g”?
oct 31 '11 at 18:45
What's an idiom for doing something in an unnecessarily complicated way?
oct 31 '11 at 18:45
Where did “There, there” (in consoling) come from?
oct 31 '11 at 17:25
Why does “for good” mean “forever”?
oct 31 '11 at 16:59
What is the origin of “hissy fit”?
oct 12 '11 at 19:21
Where did the names of English letters come from, and why are they all monosyllabic (except for “w”)?
oct 12 '11 at 19:21
What is the origin of the knock-knock joke?
sep 29 '11 at 12:15
Why does “whence” have “when” in it?
sep 29 '11 at 7:15
Is there a word for capitalizing in the middle of a word, as in “eBay”?
sep 27 '11 at 7:44
Is there a word for having more than ten fingers?
sep 24 '11 at 9:31
Why is “Saturday” Romanic?
sep 18 '11 at 2:16
Why isn't “muscle” pronounced “muskle”?
sep 11 '11 at 20:53
Why does the name 'John' have an 'h' in it?
aug 3 '11 at 7:38
“Eat” is to “feed” as “drink” is to what?
jul 24 '11 at 5:18
Why is there no plural indefinite article?
jul 21 '11 at 9:15
Where did the word “umpteenth” come from?
jul 15 '11 at 20:33
Why is it true that “I before E, except after C”?
jul 15 '11 at 16:38
Why does the common meaning of “impertinent” have nothing to do with “pertinent”?
jul 15 '11 at 4:58
Why are “sugar” and “sure” pronounced with an SH?
jul 8 '11 at 18:48
“A whole nother” way of looking at things
jul 6 '11 at 11:53
Where did the “ue” in “tongue” come from?
jul 6 '11 at 7:58
Where did the expression “my two cents” come from?
