The English Oracle

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What does “his A and C” mean?

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Proper Timezone Acronym Usage - PT vs PDT or PST

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How long ago did Londoners start saying "f" instead of "th"?

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The one before the prior one?

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Is there a synonym for the phrase "card up his sleeve"?

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Difference between "underneath" and "under" when we describe an action

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What does "to fall to upon" mean here?

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Water that stays on the fields

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What is the term for finding your own question?

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Use of "them" as an article, not a pronoun

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Word for 'energy-less-ness'

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Where did the word 'Greece' come from?

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"Ten times fewer the number" versus "one-tenth the number"

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Word for a person who loses or has lost faith?

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Is there a word for "without any reason" but a more formal one

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"black ice" vs. "glare ice" vs. "glaze" in NAmEng

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I will (have the package sent) vs (have sent the package) by next week

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There is/are one or several apple/~s?

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Meaning of "garnish"

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Can one use the word 'majority' for the leading alternative (in a three way split) even if the proportion in favor is less than 50%?

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Is a "Tale" less factual than a "Story"?

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Alternative idiom to "ploughing through something" that's more sad and struggling

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What do you call a “cropped image” on a website?

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"Employee" is to "employer" as "dependent" is to what?

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Difference between verb+preposition and phrasal verbs

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Pronouncing acronyms

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Why is Ukraine often called "the Ukraine"?

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What do "former" and "latter" refer to, here?

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Weaved or woven

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What does "stick-at-naught" mean?

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"All is not lost" vs "Not all is lost"

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Adverb for "Cannot be topped"

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"Room" versus "space" (in the sense of unoccupied volume)

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Is "a topic about which I could talk for hours" correct?

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A term for "it's raining while the sun is shining"

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"She is gone" versus "she has gone"

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Word for an activity that one does not care for?

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What's the meaning of "large hug" in definition of "bearhug"?

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What's another word to mean "a way of thought"?

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Single word for "led my team to victory"

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Origin and earliest recorded use of 'fungo'

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What is the word for this effect: things are not normally noticed until those things come in to the news and people fear/are looking for them

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What is a long, complicated word for adding many unnecessary details to make a story seem more believable?

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What is the difference between "it's up to you" and "it's down to you"?

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First-rate, second-rate, and third-rate

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What is the origin of "fine" meaning a legal penalty?

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Does a whole "compose" its parts?

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Atheist/agnostic form of expressing condolences

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Hypernym for "increase" and "decrease"

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Could "them" mean "those"?

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