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Is there a name for a window without glass?
Oct 14, 2017
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English equivalent for the Persian proverb "The mountain just gave birth to a mouse"
Feb 18, 2016
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"th" in mother, father, brother— but not sister
Dec 31, 2015
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Synonym for "daily" of Latin origin?
Oct 27, 2015
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How did "run over him" evolve to "run him over" over the last 50 years?
Nov 3, 2015
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Why "hoping against hope"?
Jun 21, 2015
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Why aren’t Tom, Jake, and Jen­ny look­ing for­ward to Thanks­giv­ing?
Mar 13, 2014
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Why does "quadratic" describe second power when "quad" means "four"?
Feb 11, 2014
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What's the etymology of "dash"?
Oct 9, 2014
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Is there a word for one side in a pair?
Apr 20, 2014
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Was hay invented only in the Middle Ages in Europe?
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How serious was Fermat's statement about the ancients?
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Did all the the -stan sovereign state names appear synchronously?
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German equivalents to the prefix "re"?
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Are there languages in which "coffee" is not a cognate of a root containing k/q and f/h/w?