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Proverb or expression for a situation with two choices, both leading to a different kind of trouble
40
Word for not being happy with something but having to be satisfied with it
36
When is it necessary to use a hyphen in writing a compound word?
36
Which is correct: “rack my brain” or “wrack my brain”?
34
How did kool-aid come to be the drink of fanboys?
31
Did “Mrs” originally imply possession?
31
Replacement for “God forbid”
30
Word order in fractional quantities
29
What's the word for someone who pretends to buy something from a street-seller, in order to draw other people?
25
What's the name for people with black hair?
25
Why father is called “dada” and not “fafa”
24
In “Are you staff?” does “staff” need to be preceded with an article?
24
“between” vs “among”
21
Synonym of “s--t eating grin” suitable for polite company
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“Dieing” vs “dying”
18
What is a word for partaking in art?
17
What is the difference between “daemon” and “demon” in a religious context?
16
Is there a term for words that have identical singular and plural forms?
16
Is “thankyou” acceptable as a single word?
16
Origin of “continental breakfast”
15
Origin of the term 'bastard sword'
15
How did “sinister”, the Latin word for “left-handed”, get its current meaning?
15
What does “Sunshine,” when it’s placed at the end of sentence mean?
15
What's the difference between the various dialects of English?
14
Origin of the idiom “go south”
14
What does the “north of the northbridge” mean?
14
“You and I combined” versus “you and me combined”
13
Why is the right jack in cribbage also called “his Knobs”?
13
“Undertake” and “overtake”
13
Origin of “Fits [x] to a T”?
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