The English Oracle

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What do you call feeling what someone else feels?

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What is the difference between motivation and inspiration?

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Where should the apostrophe be placed in "Goats Milk"?

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When and why did English stop pronouncing ‘hour’ with an [h] like its spelling still shows?

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Is it “Check and mate” or “Checkmate”?

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What is the word that describes a person trying to sell stuff persistently?

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The verb form of "Is entered in the race"

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"22 Acacia Avenue" British idiom

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Using anymore in the positive

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Please accept this intimation

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What do you call a government when the rulers are gods?

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What is the earliest mention of an "American accent"?

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How is the word "qua" used?

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Why is a 'vulgar fraction' called 'vulgar'?

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Is there a phrase, word or saying when one 'has the thought or feeling of causing hurt of mischief" despite never dreaming of acting on it?

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"This works fine" Is this correct?

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How should I use "eponym", "eponymous" and "namesake"?

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Many more vs much more / many fewer vs much fewer

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Plural of "syntax"

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Is there a better term for 'low-level?'

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If I help "evacuate" a building, what am I doing to the people?

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Word for passing a vehicle going the other way

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"Yard" in the sense of pulling hard on something

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Is there a name for a domestic company that uses a foreign (sounding) name?

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Image is to pixelated as a song is to ___?

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History of use of the term "organism"

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"Have to split" in the film "The Running Man"

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"Duplicate data" or "duplicated data"?

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"Auxiliary" or "ancillary"

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What is a single word for something that takes on shape slowly?

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On vs At with date and time

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Word/phrase for copying down incorrectly

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What is the term for schools where students stay in one class all day and the teachers change rooms?

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Mix and Mixture

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What does the suffix “‑fu” mean?

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Should I use "damn" or "darn"?

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Why do you suck at XYZ?

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What is the origin of "can't into"?

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anatomically correct without sexual connotation

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What do you say when a person/an idea/... is crazy to your mind?

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How does one get raunchy?

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About question tags

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What is the meaning of "Many a mickle makes a muckle"?

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Does "girlfriend" or "boyfriend" always indicate partnership?

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Is "did" used conditionally, regionally or otherwise? e.g. "Did you want..." instead of "Would you want..."

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Reason for the current trend to use «she» as the gender-neutral pronoun?

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Word for making your life circumstances seem much worse than it is

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What is meant by "pun intended"?

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Meaning of suffix '-sex' in 'Sussex, Middlesex'

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What does ‘be one’s “buddy”’ mean aside 'be one’s “friend”'?

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