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Kate Bunting
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  • Derby, UK
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Retired librarian with a lifelong interest in words. (For those unfamiliar with English names - I'm female.)

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Syntactical problem? Musk's tweet "I Am Become Meme, Destroyer Of Shorts"
Mar 27, 2021
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Why do you say "air conditioned" and not "conditioned air"?
Dec 5, 2020
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Strange omission of "to be": "The ground was hard and the rime thick and crisp on the grass."
May 10, 2023
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Is there a noun for a man who wrote a best-seller book?
Oct 8, 2020
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What's the difference between making something “in ten minutes” or “for ten minutes"?
Aug 30, 2020
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Why would they call a petri dish of germs "preschool"?
Jan 13
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My dad doesn't want me to TOUCH alcohol
May 8, 2022
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Are you an English? Are you a British?
Jan 24, 2021
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Does “you can go now” sound rude? Context provided in question
Nov 4, 2023
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Is it rude to say "Speak of the devil- Here is Grandma now!"?
Nov 18, 2021
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Why is Nike pronounced "naikee" and not "naik"?
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What do you call a child for whom you act as a guardian / custodian?
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"Their hunt the roast vegetable sauce": can you parse this?
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What is the word for a person who destroys monuments?
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Idiom request: an unacceptable amount of effort