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Which is correct: "math" or "maths"?
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"Happens on" vs "Falls on" a particular date. What is the difference?
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Why is it incorrect to answer "because I have to finish my report by the end of this week" to the question "Why do you work so hard?"
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"Stephen" is now "Stefan" not "Steven"? [closed]
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A phrase that means "to finally select (or decide) something"
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Origin of an ethnic slur
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Adjective for withstanding the passage of time
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Does finishing a book mean the same as reading the book to the end
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Ambiguity of "Dogs must be carried on this escalator"
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Symbol for 'Or'
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Does "nothing better" really mean nothing better? [closed]
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To add vs to be added
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Why does English use definite articles before certain proper nouns, such as the names of ships?
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What's correct way of writing following sentence: I'm reading them (documents) as they being posted [closed]
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What is a single word that describes "(excessive) human desire for external validation" (i.e., popularity)?
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How has "Boadicea" been pronounced at different points in history?
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Is ��I is free” grammatical [closed]
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"You're a crooked jerky jockey, and you drive a crooked hoss!" -- What's a Hoss?
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What type of word describes someone who performs an action?
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Rationales behind or rationale behind?
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Sentence using "hamartia"
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Country names ending in "-ia"
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Is there a noun that means "the state of being flustered"?
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How to pronounce "Question"?
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What is the origin of “give it the beans!”?
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What is the male counterpart of nubile?
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Nuances between "stoic" and "stolid"
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Registration Successful or Registered Successfully [closed]
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What is between dystopian and utopian?
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Should I use "narrations" or "narratives"?
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I need an alternative term for “master,” as in someone who has “mastered” a particular craft [duplicate]
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What is a term or idiom for "blah blah blah" talk?
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What could I say instead of "raise the roof"?
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What do we call a person who studied humanities, e.g. at university or college?
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What is the ¬ symbol called on a British Windows keyboard? [closed]
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Phrase to describe a potential positive future for a person? [closed]
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Word for random knowledged person
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Single word: "for its own sake"
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A word for the beginning of a street?
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What does “Bit it” mean?
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Can "without abandonment" mean "with abandon"?
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Are there pangrams shorter than ‘the quick brown fox jumps over a lazy dog’? [closed]
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Is there an adjectival or adverbial form of "legacy"?
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Why is "threshold" pronounced "thresh-hold"?
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Is misplaced emphasis a form of mispronunciation?
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What is it called when you tell someone not to do something but actually want them to do it?
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Among vs. Amongst [duplicate]
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Word to describe someone who is ignorant of societal problems
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Word for "other people who have the same issue/problem as I have"?
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What is the origin of the joke 'a freckle past a hair' when one is asked the time of day?
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What's the original/most used variant of "If I had a [dollar/dime/quarter/penny] for every time ____ "?
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Syllable count for apparent monosyllabic words like "child," "wild," and field"
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How to say "short, sweet, to the point" in one word? [closed]
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Is "live" an action verb or a state verb?
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Opposite to 'verbatim' - like, but not exactly, 'paraphrased'
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Is nr. a correct abbreviation for the word number?
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The right hand giveth
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"This is joint work with ..." vs "this is a joint work with ..."
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"Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise..."
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Should the first word after a colon be capitalized?
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