Benjol

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Saved from the web by a job in industry. Coding GUI for computer-aided railway realignment machinery.

At last a job where I have time to do stuff properly and don't have to worry about loads of unfixed bugs coming back to haunt me.


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38
What do you call a bunch of garlic (when you don't remove the cloves)?
dec 16 '10 at 9:21
19
How to pronounce “tuple”?
feb 17 '11 at 10:01
18
What's the difference between “rock” and “stone”?
nov 30 '10 at 14:04
9
What is a synonym for “superstition” but without the negative connotation?
jun 8 '11 at 11:13
9
“If I was” or “If I were”. Which is more common, and which is correct?
sep 8 '10 at 5:41
7
The origins of “Who da Man”?
oct 13 '10 at 20:15
7
Can “prior” or “previous” be used to describe the same month of last year?
oct 11 '10 at 4:53
6
What is the origin of the phrase “hunky dory”?
feb 8 '11 at 6:33
6
What does “hit me like a two-by-four” mean?
jan 20 '11 at 9:59
6
What does “I am married with three kids” mean?
nov 29 '10 at 10:50
5
How can I distinguish “can” & “can't” from pronunciation?
feb 18 '11 at 14:41
5
Meaning of “living within means”
dec 8 '10 at 5:54
5
Is 'disabilitated' a real word?
nov 23 '10 at 11:11
4
An English equivalent to “débroussailler un projet”
apr 27 '12 at 9:58
4
What is currently the most obscene word in British English?
feb 10 '11 at 9:27
3
What does “by and by” mean?
apr 27 '11 at 11:25
3
Proper use of the word “lousy”?
feb 14 '11 at 5:49
3
Usage of the word “itself”
jan 18 '11 at 12:11
3
Does “bend over backwards” have bad meaning?
jan 17 '11 at 12:26
3
which is correct “to be as flexible as possible” or just “as flexible as possible”
nov 24 '10 at 5:52
3
Is “choose from one of four options” wrong?
nov 19 '10 at 20:34
3
Does “see you this weekend” in email express “will write another email this weekend”?
oct 14 '10 at 4:47
3
19th century English texts occasionally use germanic-style number words, such as “four-and-twenty”. When did this fall out of use?
oct 11 '10 at 13:35
3
Do “normal people” know the terms URL and GUI?
sep 16 '10 at 5:12
3
Favourite untranslatables
aug 19 '10 at 7:49
2
Topography of phrasal verbs
feb 22 at 10:54
2
A synonym for “bastardized” without the evil slant?
jun 1 '11 at 6:59
2
Is it “that's the same story, know?” or “that's the same story, no?”
feb 9 '11 at 8:07
2
What does “thy” mean?
sep 14 '10 at 5:23
2
Why did English become a universal language and when?
nov 29 '10 at 10:03
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