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What do you call a person who uses vulgar words too often?
Aug 21, 2016
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The intensifier 'pure D': where and when did it originate, and what does the D stand for?
Nov 3, 2016
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Etymology of Butterfly
Jun 10, 2016
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Term for doing something little by little?
Jan 21, 2016
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Is there an English word to describe a group of refrain words composed of two syllables e.g. pera-pera, meaning fluently, iki-iki meaning vividly?
Jan 10, 2016
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Is "went out like stink, died like a pig" just an unfortunate choice of words?
Aug 11, 2016
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Why are "muscle cars" called so?
Jan 21, 2016
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What is a one-word synonym for "religious symbol"?
Mar 4, 2016
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Mimsy were the Borogoves - why is "mimsy" an adjective?
Nov 8, 2016
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Idioms similar to "heard it through the grapevine"
Nov 12, 2015
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Undercutting the old duplicity
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By "gosh", the etymological hydra's immortal head unburied
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How reliable is Google Ngram?
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Does a weak question legitimize a weak answer?
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Website to see frequency of use of words together
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Oblique endorsement of violence in display-name
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Allow sourcing in blockquote markdown
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How to show that one long line of poetry is only one line
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“It can be very cold…” vs “It may be very cold…”