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9 votes
1 answer
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What is the word for using one part of speech where another would be more grammatical?

14 votes
1 answer
52k views

Why is it "grandfather", but "great-uncle"?

6 votes
3 answers
1k views

What might "three several" mean?

8 votes
5 answers
43k views

Is "breaths" grammatically correct? [duplicate]

23 votes
3 answers
23k views

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

17 votes
3 answers
58k views

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

6 votes
3 answers
3k views

What is the effect called when one looks at a bright light, and the image "burns" into one's eyes?

27 votes
4 answers
7k views

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

20 votes
3 answers
11k views

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

6 votes
4 answers
4k views

Why do people who find it hard to hear say they are "hard of hearing"?

8 votes
4 answers
70k views

Is "aren't I" correct grammar?

11 votes
3 answers
16k views

Why is "busy" pronounced "bizzy"?

28 votes
8 answers
26k views

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

16 votes
3 answers
4k views

Why is “Saturday” Romanic?

8 votes
6 answers
6k views

Can you "regret" someone else's action?

11 votes
5 answers
4k views

Is there a word for "umming"?

4 votes
5 answers
19k views

Does the adjective "swell" have anything to do with the noun/verb "swell"?

8 votes
6 answers
8k views

What constitutes a double negative?

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]

16 votes
5 answers
12k views

Where did the phrase "used to" come from?

4 votes
3 answers
1k views

What is the preposition category of "along"?

52 votes
9 answers
18k views

Why is there no plural indefinite article?

2 votes
4 answers
3k views

How is "winded" pronounced in "he winded a horn"?

10 votes
3 answers
25k views

What comes after "octuplet"?

4 votes
2 answers
381 views

Was "oop" really more common than "oops" till 1990?

9 votes
5 answers
12k views

Why is "fastly" not a word?

6 votes
5 answers
5k views

Why and when did "crack" come to mean "tell"?

14 votes
3 answers
22k views

Why do "catsup" and "ketchup" coexist?

20 votes
9 answers
28k views

What is the origin of "hissy fit"?

7 votes
1 answer
7k views

Why does a verbose person talk "nineteen to the dozen"?

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