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Retired postal employe. Recovering, I hope, from a spinal cord injury. Bicyclist, never owned a car. Cynophile. Interested in algebra, geometry and the mathematics involved in computer graphics. English language, both archaic and current. Love to read.

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Seemingly quintessentially British non-medical meaning for "surgery"
May 11, 2016
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"Canary in coal mine" in a word
Aug 8, 2014
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English Translation of "Umay" (feeling tired of eating the same food)
Jul 10, 2014
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Is "rotate" in "Earth rotates around the sun" the correct word?
Feb 21, 2016
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Word that means "to fill the air with a bad smell"?
Dec 24, 2016
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A word that means suffering great loss if failed but highly profitable if successful?
Oct 27, 2014
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Just as there are a few nicknames for the U.S. ("Uncle Sam", "Columbia", "Yankee Land"), are there nicknames for England, or the U.K. for that matter?
Oct 1, 2014
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If a floor is raised or elevated, what's its opposite?
May 11, 2016
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What is one word for a “messy mixture of a lot of ingredients”?
Jun 27, 2016
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What does it mean when Nancy Pelosi criticizes the revised Republican Health-care plan as "doo-doo stuck to their shoe”?
Apr 27, 2017
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Why did Hieronymus choose to use Latin tenses that don't exist in Hebrew when translating for the Vulgata?
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Geometry Construction Problems
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How to show that five points in ℝ³ are cospherical?
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Early chapter epigram: “Your buffalo may lie down in my wallow.” From what S-F novel?
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