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Seeking origin and original wording of a quotation attributed to Shakespeare
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Equivalent of the Spanish phrase "morir de éxito"
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Term for the second letter in Sx, Dx, Rx?
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Second name or Surname in British English
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Why does Anglican refer to the religious sect rather than any other aspects of “Englishness”?
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Could I combine "eaves-" (doing something stealthily) with other action?
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Why does "sophomore" refer to a second-year student?
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Is there a word in English for a man who leaves his pregnant wife and child?
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Full-stack vs Full Stack, Back-end vs Back end, Front-end vs Front end
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Difference between "wave AT" and "wave TO"
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What does "on the trot" mean in tennis?
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What does "All things X" mean?
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Is there an etymological reason some "question words" mirror the spelling of "answer words" (When/then, where/there, ...)?
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How do I determine subject and subject complement in "A side-effect is the spread of commercialese to other domains."?
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Meaning of "retiring" in "free admission with retiring donations"
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What disrespectful connotations does "redline" have?
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Meaning of "What gave it away"
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Pre(-)processing/post(-)processing hyphen presence in research publications written in UK/US English
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How should I understand "She cracked open a door"?
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What are the differences between Indian English and other (native) varieties?
Awarded Aug 22 at 20:51
Is there any historical basis for pronouncing the “Ye Olde …“ with a /j/?
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Etymology of "div"
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"Unrelentless" to mean "relentless"?
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Do you "hit" or "press" a button?
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What meaning of "gay" is intended in "He was very gay and had already washed and was now on his feet"?
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Is 'Thanks for your trouble' a common phrase?
Awarded Aug 8 at 2:06
What is the word for lying on your stomach facing downwards, the opposite of 'supine'?
Awarded Aug 5 at 1:28
Why was the past tense used here? "I died an X"
Awarded Aug 1 at 22:30
Idiom to describe an insensitive comment
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The British equivalent of "X objects in a trenchcoat"
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"This is a good one, this is"
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"Need be" vs. "Needs to be"
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Is there an opposite gender for "lady"?
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"Irrelevant for" vs. "irrelevant to"
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Why is there no article "the" before "international law"?
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Why do we order our adjectives in certain ways: "big, blue house" rather than "blue, big house"?
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Is using the word "can" twice in the same sentence redundant?
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What is the name of the sign “ł”?
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Was “thee” ever used as a nominative?
Awarded Jul 5 at 21:36
Verb for "Placing undue weight on a specific factor when making a decision"
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"There is no man who has never looked upon a woman WITH/WITHOUT desire"
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Equivalent idiom for "When it rains in [a place], it drips in [another place]"
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Why does the pronunciation of the prefix en- vary so much?
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Why is the 'l' in 'technology' the coda of 'nol' and not the onset of 'lo'?
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Is there a word akin to "hungry" or "thirsty" that implies a need to urinate?
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Is this sentence from Fox in Socks grammatical?
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"To make terse"
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Why are the same words translated differently into English depending on their meaning?
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How does one show in IPA that the first sound in "get" and "got" is different?
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Omitting "thou" after "hast" or "art" in questions (as in "Hast seen the White Whale?")
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Words for diagonal directions
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What's with the third degree?
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Can "né" or "née" be used to refer to a religious's secular name?
Awarded Jun 10 at 5:30
What are the differences between "impolite" and "unpolite"?
Awarded Jun 10 at 1:02
Is there a word that's the relational opposite of "Childless"? (Specifically for when trying to categorize an adult)
Awarded Jun 7 at 6:31
Why did some stigmatized theophoric names survive in English?
Awarded Jun 7 at 0:47
What is "thars" in Dr. Seuss poetry "The Sneetches"?
Awarded Jun 4 at 13:57
Is there a grammatical term to describe this usage of "may be"?
Awarded Jun 2 at 18:08
"People who" vs "people which"
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