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In Iraqi Arabic, there's a term "gowatra". In a sentence, the expression will be used like, "it is not guatra [to do this or that, to have this, to get this]". That word or idiom simply means you can' …

If Smith is Rice he is the smoothest con artist that ever drew breath, for the prisoner tells a straightforward story, which is backed up by bis memorandum book, in which are entered interesting details … A Google Books search turns up another interesting (albeit somewhat later) instance of the expression as part of the longer phrase "bull con artist." …

I believe internet English is its own language, so non-native perspective is also interesting. I am asking because I've noticed that ChatGPT corrects 1 -> 2, and my intuition says otherwise. …

Some interesting discourse on what makes a letter may be found here (What is a letter?), trying to disentangle the functional role of a letter from its representation from the very notion of it. … Some interesting observations that letters aren't solely defined by their phonetic nature, as letters are still letters when used in mathematical notion, for example. …

Inspired by this earlier question, I've realized that we have no canonical question addressing the strangely one-of-a-kind special grammatical rules demanded by the verb wish of its subordinate clause …

I saw a post on another forum that sparked an interesting though-process for myself. Can which-clauses such as the one I am about to show example for be considered adverbial? …

The supposed connection between antepenult stress in an -ic word and the presence of a resonant consonant is interesting, but I find it hard to evaluate because resonants are relatively common word-medial … I found some interesting information about vowel length before -ic while I was doing research for this answer, so I posted it under a new question: Which words have a long vowel before the suffix -ic? …

Here are my thoughts, guesses, and the small amount of evidence that I have gathered. The pronunciation of experiment with the "merry" vowel (which is the same as the "square" vowel for speakers with …

The paper "Cyberocracy, Cyberspace, and Cyberology: Political Effects of the Information Revolution", by David Ronfeldt (1991), which the Wikipedia article "Cyberocracy" links to, provides some interesting …

I just came across a passage indicating that the forms "dwarven" and "dwarfen" were in fact used in some of Tolkien's writings, contrary to my initial impressions. I'm not sure if these uses can be da …

I have not found any other reference to "the Game of Hush-puppy," but it is interesting that the author says that the investigating officers—not the captain and crew—were playing it. J.S. …

Sober as a Judge Robert Hendrickson, The Facts on File Encyclopedia of Word and Phrase Origins (1997) has an interesting (though roundabout) theory of the origin of this phrase: sober as a judge. …

The poster's question itself presents an interesting hybrid of sentence case and title case. …

The responses might be interesting but how would you verify them? … And from Dr Callister in the cited Verge article titled “The way we text says a lot about our personality”, we read: An interesting thing about texting and tweeting is that it’s an informal way of writing …

In U.S. English, "concentration camp" has an array of potential meanings. People have applied it variously to what might be termed "forced-labor camps," such as those in the Soviet gulag; to the "deat …