The English Oracle

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Attainable through aural practice

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Term for the depressions left by a pen tip on an underlying paper sheet

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What is the difference between dialogue and dialog?

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Word for “decorated too much”

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Orally or Verbally

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Why does "complex sentence" vs "compound sentence" matter?

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father-in-law = step-father?

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A Word that means "to adapt or improve, to conform to a higher standard"?

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A single word meaning “absolute control over something”

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Correct usage of the verb "to hock"

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When did 'venereal disease' become STI?

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Reverse relation of role model

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Comma after "here"

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Under what circumstances should I use 'requisite' and 'required'?

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How to avoid ambiguous wording: "Each has the same number of each type of flower"

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Is there a word similar to "racism" when referring to an ethnic group rather than a race?

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What is the possessive of "you guys"?

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Capitalization of software terms--design pattern

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Why is a rhyming word beginning with "h" put before another word to create a new term?

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What does "funny farm" mean?

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Word for that certain fear, worrying you might involuntarily jump from a cliff?

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"Imagine" a word for "picturing" something that doesn't involve sense of sight

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How did the term "X's finest" come to mean the police force of a city X?

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What is this idiom: "I'm going to start taking names and..."?

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What's the practical difference between "allot" and "allocate"?

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Which is grammatically correct: "woke up by the..." or "woke up to the..."?

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UK English: Is "dived" a valid word?

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Meaning of the phrase "put down one's papers"

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Using the expression "the same" for a previously mentioned item

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Why does "hard cheese" mean "bad luck"?

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What's the logical fallacy where people dismiss what you say as irrelevant to the real-world?

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Word order, e.g. in "Hotel California", "Brothers Quay"

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Where an ellipsis exists, is there a term for the missing text?

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Translating ad in English

149

What is an idiom for "a supervening act that renders a course of action unnecessary"?

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What does "baking tradition" mean?

997

Why is "doesn't" a legitimate starting word for a sentence?

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Is there a reason the British omit the article when they "go to hospital"?

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How do "you" pronounce eczema?

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Difference between "delete" and "remove"

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What do you call a person who is regionally biased?

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What does “loud checks” mean in “parading the town at night in loud checks and a false beard”?

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What rules of English allow the first t in “patient” to make an sh sound?

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Why do we say "try and" [verb] instead of "try to" [verb]? (E.g., "Try and call me tomorrow.")

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Do capitalization and punctuation fall under the category of grammar?

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What do you call the process of combining two words to create a new one?

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At, by, in the end of this week

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"integer multiple" vs. "integral multiple"

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Is there a word for the second part of a story title after a main character?

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"Position" vs "location"

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