The English Oracle

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Throw away/in/out for rubbish?

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A single word for "atoms and molecules"?

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What is “beer money”?

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Term for disrespecting people with lower social condition

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"It is they who lied" or "it is them who lied?"

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"Fixing to" at the beginning of a sentence

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A better word for 'hot' (spicy)?

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What word or phrase most concisely describes speaking with wrongly assumed knowledge on behalf of the hearer?

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The single word for "Volume per second"

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Near-universally applicable alternative to "sanity check"

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Logical meaning of the word "understand"

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Is there a common expression for "origin of everything"? What could it be?

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Name for someone whose interest might be to discredit one's results by trying to find hypothetical mistakes?

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Another term/phrase for kill two birds with one stone

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Is “honest to gosh” a popular and decent English idiom?

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What is it called when a word is abbreviated from the middle? (Ex: fridge from reFRIGErator)

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"The splits" vs "a split"

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Et cetera vs Et al

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"Need be" vs. "Needs to be"

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Is vigenary a real word?

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Adjective to describe an argument that changed my mind or makes good sense?

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Etymology of "duck"

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Is there a formal word for people that are local to a place?

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More up-to-date alternative for "avoiding something like the plague"?

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What's the difference between "hallow", "sacred", "holy" and "saint"?

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Difference between “purpose”, “aim”, “target”, “goal”, “objective”, and “ambition”

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What is the style of writing used in the Summa Theologica called?

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What does the phrase “it’s like Groundhog Day every day” mean, and where does it originate?

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How should I pronounce "Worcestershire" as a rhotic English speaker?

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"All of a sudden" vs. "all of the sudden"

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Why there is no article before words like queen and king?

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Word for student's notebook

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Is there any equivalent for this Persian proverb "A lopsided load won't reach the destination"?

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Finding a suitable English translation of "An old donkey pulls all the weight all alone"

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Is “ass-wise” an acceptable English word? Is it a noun, or adverb?

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Why does Word not like this statement, "For each iteration"

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"Is" or "was" written by?

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"at all time" or "at all times"?

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More natural noun for someone who you chat with

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Descriptivism and widespread misspelling

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Why has the "plague" on our houses become a "pox?"

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Is “duck and dive” only a British idiom?

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Is it okay to start a sentence with a Greek letter (variable)?

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Word that indicates that "lower is better", such as scoring in golf

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Is a "doozy" a good or bad thing?

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

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How would you call sitting with your legs crossed but one calf resting on the other knee?

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Why do people pronounce 'Inventory' differently depending on the intended context

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A word or phrase to describe people who are practical and "care more about themselves"?

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What does "doing five to ten for one thing or another" mean?

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