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What do you call a guest who treats your home as theirs?
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Is there a name for the words at the beginning of a sentence which make it a question?
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What is the word to use to describe the process of a person returning back to the original place after initially migrating to a different place? [closed]
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How to use "allow to do something" without mentioning a person?
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How "So it would seem" phrase work?
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Recurring vs Reoccurring
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Are meals classified by time slot or sequence?
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Are there any rules/patterns for selecting "ish" vs "like" as a suffix?
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'Year' or 'Years'?
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Are the words "Aural" and "Oral" homophones?
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"Bitter line" Meaning
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What is a general name for a group of people who support and defend a cause or ideal? [closed]
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Phrase similar to "polishing a turd" but less negative
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synonym of rounding off to the nearest whole number
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When is the proper time to use "lie" vs "lay" [duplicate]
Awarded Dec 9 at 21:15
First, second, and third person mixed in a sentence
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"to make rapid" - like 'rapidify' or 'rapidise' [sic!]
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Expression for "unconsciously using words (or accents) used by a person you often talk with or listen to"?
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I finished my essay yesterday but I (?) it in to the tutor yet
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Is there a difference between the phrase "a night out" and "a day out"?
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Information given versus given information [duplicate]
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What is the origin of the phrase "to not give two f***s"? [closed]
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What's the difference between "on a Saturday" and "on Saturday"? [closed]
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What is the correct pronunciation of Costa Coffee?
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Correct verb to be use with bow and arrow [closed]
Awarded Dec 6 at 23:09
Italicize Translated Title in Parentheses?
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"Tip of the iceberg" negative or positive
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What word would you use to describe someone who believes humanity needs to come together to survive?
Awarded Dec 5 at 18:27
"E.g." or "e. g." (with a blank)?
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Can we use "you" to refer to a general person? [duplicate]
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Does the word "egrarious" exist? [closed]
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When does something qualify as 'gore', is there a cut-off?
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Why does "not" come after "it" in "he knows it not"?
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Another term for "accounts payable"?
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To explain or to be explained
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Good word for "a request that can't be refused"?
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preposition after 'instrumental'
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"Home appliances", "household appliances", "domestic appliances", and "brown/white wares" in AE
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Is there a term for the amount of time one devotes to a job, as in full-time, part-time, half-time?
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"few if any" vs "few, if any"
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Why are I and O always capitalized, but a is not?
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Victorian English slang: 'earnest' ~ 'gay'? [closed]
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Avoiding "existential it" while referring to a past event?
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"Has yet to win" vs. "has yet won"?
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Would 'Storm clouds gathering' be considered as an example of personification?
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Does one work in or on an aeroplane?
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What does "Do you know how to party?" mean? [closed]
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What does "fancy" mean?
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What is it called when something is actually true but someone mistakenly believes it is false and tells it to others intending to lie?
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A phrase similar to "It's what you do that makes you who you are"
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When and where did 'bulldozer' originate, what did it originally apply to, and how did it come to refer to earth-moving machinery?
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Why is the origin of “threshold” uncertain?
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is there a word or phrase for the family unit that only includes "immediate family" but not spouses and children?
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Idiom for someone who works fast without paying attention to the quality?
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How did "be like"+meme become popular?
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Singular or plural of 'infrastructure'
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Word or phrase to describe relation beween yourself and a step-parent's ex-spouse?
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Tea bag disposal plate name
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What is the meaning and usage of the word "dense"?
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Did the word "Crocodile" have a dreadful connotation in London 1600s?
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