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42
What did “google” mean in the 1900s?
oct 24 '11 at 9:28
41
Terminology for fake photograph
jun 26 '12 at 22:05
38
Are there any words I can use to disambiguate “biweekly”?
dec 5 '11 at 13:10
27
“Username”, “user name” or “user-name”
sep 27 '11 at 14:17
25
Why “Greater Toronto” rather than “Great Toronto”
oct 26 '11 at 20:29
22
Roy Hodgson's “Church in the centre of the village” expression
jun 12 '12 at 9:14
21
Why don’t we write poetry like Beowulf any longer?
jan 4 at 15:56
20
Why does “bananas” mean “crazy”?
jul 19 '12 at 14:39
19
Why do we say that an obscene joke is “off-color”?
jun 6 at 20:44
19
Can I say “Do you have a facebook”?
jun 21 '12 at 10:35
19
Why is there a period after a royal title?
oct 31 '11 at 15:00
18
Is there a term which covers ATM cards, credit cards, and debit cards?
jan 28 at 13:16
18
Is there a word for numbers between 10 and 99?
jan 26 at 21:05
18
What do you call a computer window when it is not maximized or minimized?
dec 3 at 15:44
18
Is there a word similar to “racism” when referring to an ethnic group rather than a race?
nov 13 at 13:41
18
Historical reasons of footnotes' sequence symbols
mar 28 '12 at 21:28
18
Word meaning “the act of intending to do nothing”
nov 11 '11 at 12:57
17
Where were “should”, “shall”, and “must” in the 18th Century?
nov 24 at 12:46
17
“I'm on the brew”
nov 21 at 17:09
17
Origin of the expression “being cagey about something”
mar 17 '12 at 23:35
17
Plurals of acronyms, letters, numbers — use an apostrophe or not?
jan 26 '12 at 6:53
17
What does “up she rises” mean in the sea shanty “Drunken Sailor”?
sep 19 '11 at 12:43
16
Alternative term to “Blacklist” and “Whitelist”
dec 8 '11 at 19:27
15
How did the Swedish word “fartlek” make it to the English language running vocabulary?
may 9 '12 at 10:23
15
When your 10-year old boy says “It’s meta,” what does it mean? In what situation and of what sort of object they use this phrase?
nov 16 '11 at 21:09
14
Is “camp” short for “campaign”?
nov 22 '11 at 22:07
14
What is the origin of ZOMG?
jul 17 '11 at 15:27
13
Why is a “splash screen” so called?
mar 5 at 10:27
13
What is the origin of the word “conk”?
jan 15 at 19:46
13
Nerd vs. Geek vs. Dork
nov 21 at 15:44
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