The English Oracle

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Is it necessary to begin a new paragraph after a person speaks?

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Word that means "of or relating to 'vocabulary'"

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When using multiple verbs that typically use different prepositions, which do I choose?

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"talk over the phone" or "talk over phone"

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Do Americans say "don't" as often as the British?

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"What's" in indirect questions

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What is the origin of "right as rain"?

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Word to describe a painting by the materials that were used in its creation

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What adjective would subtly state that an argument is cheap, weak or insignificant?

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Store names & possessive

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How to deal with abbreviations at the end of a question?

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Articles, prepositions, and conjunctions in acronyms and initialisms

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What does ‘It’s one thing to dance like Fred Astaire, but Ginger Rogers did it backwards’ mean as a metaphor to John Roberts' ruling?

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Why and when did "crack" come to mean "tell"?

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Why don't we pluralize "foot" in measurements?

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Does this type of grammatical construction give an ambiguous meaning?

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Collection of mathematical formulas

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Word for bigotry towards someone of political beliefs

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What does "pink primates" mean?

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A word for someone who gets scared easily

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Can the "don't" contraction be expanded when used as a command?

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What is "Got it!" short for?

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Meaning of "native speaker of English"

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Is size inherent in the meanings of "plant" and "factory"?

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Should I use hyphens with prefixes like "sub" and "semi"?

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Article when there is an adjective before a noun

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"He grew up around cars that would later become classics."

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Strange pronunciation of "door"

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Is there a word for the sound that is made after taking a sip of hot coffee/tea?

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Cell phone? Cell? Mobile phone? What's the "correct" term?

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Is it grammatical to use "same" or "the same" in substitution for an objective pronoun?

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How and in what way did the Danes come to influence English?

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"I think that ... not ... " and "I don't think that ..."

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"Build out" versus "build up"

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Arguable ("susceptible to doubt") vs arguable ("susceptible to being supported")

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Is the [ʊ] sound pronounced with lip rounding?

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How would you translate this Spanish saying "Sacar un clavo con otro clavo" to English?

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Word for a software bug that occurs again after having fixed it?

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"Normalization" vs. "canonicalization"

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What does "the deed is done, the doers undone" in a headline mean?

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Is there a rule for which suffix to use when creating adjectives from nouns?

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Is it safe to use "old" to mean "previous" for a person?

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What is the opposite of "to stink" (v)? Is there one at all?

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Origin of the idiom "go south"

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Australian hypocorism and the origin of "selfie"

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Are numbers greater than one plural?

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From the horse jockey to the disc jockey

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Is there a word, phrase to describe a kind but corrupt person?

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What is the term that means "how a noun and verb match"?

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What does this archaic use of "fear never but you" mean exactly?

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