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Kate Bunting
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Retired librarian with a lifelong interest in words.

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Why is Nike pronounced "naikee" and not "naik"?
Nov 22, 2017
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What do you call a child for whom you act as a guardian / custodian?
Sep 19, 2016
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Historically, did "Oh my Gosh" originate as an anti-God expression?
Dec 13, 2018
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"Their hunt the roast vegetable sauce": can you parse this?
Oct 3, 2020
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What is the word for a person who destroys monuments?
Sep 15, 2019
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Idiom request: an unacceptable amount of effort
May 6, 2023
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What do 'flat-chested' and 'unromantic' mean when speaking of a house?
Mar 20, 2023
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Why do they not say "The Baby"
Jul 13, 2019
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Mimsy were the Borogoves - why is "mimsy" an adjective?
Nov 8, 2016
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Why is the singular "dress" used in "all wearing traditional dress"?
Oct 27, 2022

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Syntactical problem? Musk's tweet "I Am Become Meme, Destroyer Of Shorts"
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Why do you say "air conditioned" and not "conditioned air"?
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Strange omission of "to be": "The ground was hard and the rime thick and crisp on the grass."
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Is there a noun for a man who wrote a best-seller book?
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What's the difference between making something “in ten minutes” or “for ten minutes"?