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native speaker of American English (AmE)


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What do you call a disk with a hole in the middle?
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Idiom: People caring about minor stuff while something terrible is happening
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Is there a word for telling the truth (technically) in order to misguide?
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Generic name for places like village, town and cities
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Word for “non-unpleasant”?
23
What overarching category do “street,” “road,” “avenue”, etc. belong to?
21
How popular is the word “cromulent”? If I use this word in conversation with native speakers, doesn’t it look out of place?
19
What would you call a person who doesn't want to learn anything new?
18
A more acceptable word to replace the word “rectum”?
16
Name for smuggled liquor?
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What noun describes a redundant phrase like “temporary pause”?
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Difference between “calculus” and “calculi”
14
What do you call someone who exploits people and their confidence using ‘clever speech’?
14
Is “blah blah blah” the most common spelling?
14
How to read exponential expressions, e.g., “2^16”?
14
“I didn't finish” versus “I haven't finished”
14
What is the word for an action that is “considered to be frowned upon”?
13
“Zoe” or “Zoë”: which is the correct spelling?
13
How can I describe a “one or more” condition (one that has many options; a “non-boolean”)?
12
What does “brought up by hand” mean?
12
Difference in starting pronunciations of “station” and “sun”
12
Is there a word for refusing to call things by their name out of fear?
12
How did Americans greet each other before “Hi”?
11
Gigolo is to man as what is to woman?
11
What does “not quite a Haiku” mean? Is it a popular English idiom?
11
Is “fair enough” the same as “OK”?
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What is the name for the grammatical device of putting “not” after a verb to negate it?
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Are 'accuracy' and 'precision' interchangeable nouns?
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Paucity of words for relationships
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What term can I use to express the delay between two connecting flights?
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