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57 votes
10 answers
82k views

"Eat" is to "feed" as "drink" is to what?

52 votes
9 answers
18k views

Why is there no plural indefinite article?

47 votes
6 answers
135k views

Is there a gender-neutral word for "aunts and uncles"/"parents' siblings"?

42 votes
7 answers
26k views

"For all it's worth" or "for all its worth"?

41 votes
8 answers
218k views

How did "sinister", the Latin word for "left-handed", get its current meaning?

38 votes
5 answers
45k views

Why are "sugar" and "sure" pronounced with an SH?

31 votes
3 answers
44k views

Why does "for good" mean "forever"?

28 votes
8 answers
24k views

Where did the expression "my two cents" come from?

27 votes
4 answers
6k views

Why is it true that "I before E, except after C"?

26 votes
5 answers
7k views

"A whole nother" way of looking at things

25 votes
3 answers
46k views

Why does the ending -ough have six pronunciations?

24 votes
6 answers
152k views

"Clean as a whistle" — why is a whistle considered appropriate for describing cleanliness?

24 votes
3 answers
22k views

What reasoning is behind the names of the trigonometric functions "sine", "secant" and "tangent"?

20 votes
9 answers
27k views

What is the origin of "hissy fit"?

20 votes
13 answers
31k views

What's an idiom for doing something in an unnecessarily complicated way?

20 votes
2 answers
32k views

Why is "sergeant" pronounced "sargent"?

20 votes
3 answers
10k views

Where did the "ue" in "tongue" come from?

19 votes
7 answers
29k views

Where did "There, there" (in consoling) come from?

19 votes
4 answers
14k views

Where did the word "umpteenth" come from?

18 votes
2 answers
1k views

Is there a word for having more than ten fingers?

17 votes
3 answers
12k views

Why is Ukraine often called "the Ukraine"? [duplicate]

17 votes
1 answer
4k views

Where did the names of English letters come from, and why are they all monosyllabic (except for "w")? [duplicate]

17 votes
4 answers
13k views

Why does the name 'John' have an 'h' in it?

17 votes
3 answers
56k views

Origin of "man!", "(oh) boy!", and "oh brother"

16 votes
5 answers
12k views

Where did the phrase "used to" come from?

16 votes
2 answers
37k views

Why is "plaid" pronounced "plad"?

16 votes
1 answer
4k views

If we say "Socrates", "Hippocrates", etc, why don't we say "Aristoteles"? Why "Aristotle"?

16 votes
2 answers
8k views

Why is "margarine" pronounced with a soft "g"?

16 votes
3 answers
4k views

Why is “Saturday” Romanic?

16 votes
2 answers
26k views

Why does gasoline have the word "gas" in it, if it's never gaseous?

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