User Gio - English Language & Usage Stack Exchange

21 votes

3 answers

6k views

How did “way to go” come to mean “well done”?

asked Oct 6, 2024 at 19:15

20 votes

8 answers

7k views

What’s the English for “democrature”, a dictatorship pretending to be a democracy through fraudulent elections?

asked Apr 26, 2021 at 14:51

19 votes

5 answers

4k views

Early usage of Martian meaning inhabitant of Mars

asked Feb 7, 2021 at 17:16

18 votes

2 answers

5k views

What triggered the slang term "epic fail"?

asked Nov 14, 2023 at 20:06

17 votes

4 answers

6k views

When and how did the criminal sense of 'grooming' arise?

asked Feb 17, 2021 at 8:58

14 votes

3 answers

6k views

Where does “beats me” come from?

asked Aug 3, 2022 at 9:48

13 votes

2 answers

2k views

Where does the expression “roll with it” come from?

asked Oct 15 at 15:15

11 votes

5 answers

3k views

Origin of “give a damn about”

asked Mar 9 at 16:19

11 votes

5 answers

5k views

Is the expression “dumber than a sack of bricks” in common usage?

asked Apr 8 at 15:43

10 votes

3 answers

3k views

When did the psychological meaning of “unpacking” emerge?

asked Jul 11, 2023 at 10:39

10 votes

7 answers

2k views

What’s the English for “ecomostro”?

asked Oct 14, 2022 at 13:23

10 votes

4 answers

2k views

Origin of colloquializing suffix -o

asked Jan 29, 2021 at 17:13

9 votes

1 answer

3k views

Is the expression POV “Point of view” misused on social media?

asked Dec 10, 2024 at 9:01

9 votes

3 answers

3k views

What does “lettuce talk” mean?

asked Apr 16 at 16:12

8 votes

4 answers

2k views

Idiomatic alternative to “going to Canossa”

asked Aug 24, 2024 at 12:13

6 votes

2 answers

14k views

How did cougar come to mean predatory woman?

asked Feb 15, 2021 at 20:18

5 votes

5 answers

2k views

Is there an English proverb for “Ogni santo ha i suoi devoti”, which suggests that, to different degrees, every person has someone who likes them?

asked Feb 13 at 21:21

5 votes

1 answer

342 views

Why do we hit the books?

asked Nov 18, 2022 at 11:26

5 votes

1 answer

2k views

How did barista enter the English language?

asked Mar 29, 2023 at 14:04

5 votes

1 answer

521 views

Origin of shooting the breeze?

asked Jul 25, 2024 at 6:32

5 votes

1 answer

217 views

Bot, za and the like

asked May 19, 2022 at 16:16

4 votes

1 answer

187 views

The growing popularity of “on the cusp”

asked Apr 9, 2021 at 16:48

4 votes

2 answers

604 views

Earliest usages of gymtimidation

asked Jan 30, 2021 at 19:29

4 votes

1 answer

451 views

Word for shaking elbows (Covid-19 pandemic)

asked May 30, 2020 at 14:37

3 votes

1 answer

634 views

When and by whom was “text neck” coined?

asked Apr 13, 2022 at 11:12

3 votes

1 answer

2k views

Is using “to a less extent” rather than “to a lesser extent” grammatically wrong today?

asked Aug 27, 2021 at 19:07

2 votes

1 answer

177 views

What happened to the term “stance”?

asked Oct 5, 2020 at 18:42

2 votes

1 answer

330 views

Usage of stateside

asked Jun 27, 2023 at 9:28

2 votes

2 answers

144 views

Origin of AmE sense of gouging

asked Aug 15, 2024 at 15:45

2 votes

1 answer

264 views

Term for cleaning up a language

asked Apr 7, 2023 at 9:19

Stack Exchange Network

37 Questions

How did “way to go” come to mean “well done”?

What’s the English for “democrature”, a dictatorship pretending to be a democracy through fraudulent elections?

Early usage of Martian meaning inhabitant of Mars

What triggered the slang term "epic fail"?

When and how did the criminal sense of 'grooming' arise?

Where does “beats me” come from?

Where does the expression “roll with it” come from?

Origin of “give a damn about”

Is the expression “dumber than a sack of bricks” in common usage?

When did the psychological meaning of “unpacking” emerge?

What’s the English for “ecomostro”?

Origin of colloquializing suffix -o

Is the expression POV “Point of view” misused on social media?

What does “lettuce talk” mean?

Idiomatic alternative to “going to Canossa”

How did cougar come to mean predatory woman?

Is there an English proverb for “Ogni santo ha i suoi devoti”, which suggests that, to different degrees, every person has someone who likes them?

Why do we hit the books?

How did barista enter the English language?

Origin of shooting the breeze?

Bot, za and the like

The growing popularity of “on the cusp”

Earliest usages of gymtimidation

Word for shaking elbows (Covid-19 pandemic)

When and by whom was “text neck” coined?

Is using “to a less extent” rather than “to a lesser extent” grammatically wrong today?

What happened to the term “stance”?

Usage of stateside

Origin of AmE sense of gouging

Term for cleaning up a language