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Questions about English used in the United States and Canada, but usually not Mexico.
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Origin of the word “boner”
Etymonline has this:
Meaning "erect penis" is 1950s, from earlier bone-on (1940s), probably a variation (with connection notion of "hardness") of hard-on (1893).
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Which is the correct spelling: "grey" or "gray"?
The British National Corpus has 5445 cites for grey and 1092 cites for gray. The Corpus of Historical American English, on the other hand, paints the following picture:
(X axis: year, Y axis: inciden …
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