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Matthew Christopher Bartsh
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Does "rickety" come from "rickets" or vice versa?
Jul 7, 2022
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Why is it 'three score years and ten' almost half the time and not always 'three score and ten years'?
May 9, 2021
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Why is the word "oven" used to refer to a cremator in a concentration camp?
Jun 28, 2022
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The word 'grocer' comes from 'gross'. But which sense(s) of 'gross'? Only a nonspecific large amount, or also, to any degree, exactly 144?
Apr 8, 2021
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Is modern 'five countries' English the only type of English with stress patterns that change across the entire word depending on the suffix?
May 11, 2021
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How do I say whether or not a number was pronounced like a telephone number (or zip code). Are there words for this?
Apr 1, 2021
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Why numbers are sometimes pronounced as individual numbers?
Mar 4, 2021
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Are there words that specify that a number was pronounced 'six double zero ' vs 'six zero zero'? [duplicate]
Apr 1, 2021
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What's a word that means a brainteaser or puzzle so easy that you must be "inattentive" if you can't solve it and yet some normal people can't?
Apr 7, 2022
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When is a genus name without an initial capital letter acceptable in formal (but not necessarily in a scientific context) English? [duplicate]
May 30, 2023
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Is there a Robert Heinlein story where man throws his shorts while in free fall in a space station to float over to a wall using the reaction?
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Why does moderately distant lightning sound the way it does: relatively quiet high pitched thunder first, and then much louder low pitched thunder?
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In 1914 why didn't Germany simply mobilize its army without declaring war?
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Are some protons more massive than others due to spinning at a different rate or being in a more excited state?
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Can you throw a stone into longterm orbit from the surface of a spherical planet if it has lumpy enough gravity?