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Why were Scottish & Irish names once rendered with apostrophes instead of “Mac” or “Mc”

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Is there a word for “all but the first one”?

single-word-requests

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meaning slang german yiddish

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How is “eff and blind” used?

british-english idiom-meaning

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Is there a word for the material of a forest floor?

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A number is divided evenly by its factors; what to call this number?

numbers

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“I was no longer working for X” vs. “I no longer worked for X”

tenses past-tense simple-past continuous-aspect

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Usage of the word 'Each'

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They won hundreds of dollars; five hundreds to be precise!

nouns grammatical-number numbers

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Academic / formal word meaning opposite of entrenched / set in stone

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Correct word for pressing a button down without pressing up?

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What is a noun describing the sense of an adjacent train moving off?

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Which sentence is grammatically correct lay or laid in this situation?

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What title can be used in opposition of “Diseases of Attitude”?

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How again was it

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In “You can lead a horse to water, but you can't make him drink”, why is the horse a male?

etymology idioms

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Buried in a sea (of data) - mixed metaphor?

idioms metaphors

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Is the Usage “I are” proper English?

usage agreement literary-english

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English for 'cross the mark'

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What is a noun for “nice revenge”?

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Flippant vs Glib

meaning word-choice

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What is the correct term for using a verb as an adjective?

grammar gerunds participles headline-english

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“Owe” and “own” sound similar but have nearly opposite meanings

etymology

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What's the word for technical/scientific/official terms?

single-word-requests

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Has the pronunciation of ‘heretic’ changed over time?

pronunciation

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What is the meaning of “dole cheque” in the following context?

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A word to describe a changed relationship

single-word-requests past-participles

answered yesterday vincentlin 159

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What does “ pulp” mean in this context? [closed]

meaning context explanation what

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What is a word or phrase that can be used to refer to media entities like TV programs, newspaper articles, etc

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Is there a phrase or word for an “inverse” bibliography?

single-word-requests phrase-requests

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Does 'bringing people' make sense?

grammar

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Expression/term for space between door and floor/wall

expressions terminology

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Word or phrase for knowingly engaging in bad behavior

single-word-requests phrases nouns adjectives

answered yesterday jsw29 2,812

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Has anyone noted this phonetic variation in /ə/?

phonology phonetics vowels

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What is the meaning of “over”?

meaning

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What is a collection or a great number of baskets called?

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If you lost your signifcant other or a partner, but you weren't married, are you still a widow/widower or what is the correct term?

single-word-requests

answered yesterday Xanne 9,252

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Why is it 'Next of Kin' instead of just 'Kin'?

meaning phrase-origin confusables

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Can “what” be a relative pronoun?

meaning-in-context

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Order of Correlative Conjunction + Preposition

grammar prepositions word-order syntax correlative-conjunctions

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What is the meaning and derivation of 'cowp'?

meaning derivation

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synonym for “for lease” but free (“for lend”?)

single-word-requests

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What to say instead of very low? [closed]

single-word-requests

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Is “fleabag” as a derogatory term for an unpleasantly dirty person a Britishism?

word-usage slang transatlantic-differences

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Have something to give someone or give TO someone

grammaticality

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Is 'And you?' idiomatic?

idioms phrase-usage

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