The English Oracle

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"Recommend you to" vs. "recommend that you"

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What is a "bernie"?

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Is the cryptographical meaning of "nonce" a backronym?

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A term describing the replacement of a specific word in a saying with one that ryhmes

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What is the correct pronunciation and etymology of "corps"?

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Which is more correct: gender or sex?

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Is this correct usage of a semi-colon?

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"Pissed" vs "Pissed off"

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Can native English speakers tell the differences between [ɣ] voiced velar fricative and [g] voiced velar stop?

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Is there an English idiom for Bengali idiom "সবজান্তা গামছাওয়ালা"(wise towelsman)?

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Is there a word for a person with only one head?

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What are "greens" in relation to clothing?

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Two plural nouns in a row

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What are "real stores" called in English, as opposed to "online stores"?

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What's the English equivalent for the Italian slang expression "magna magna"

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On Paddington Station?

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Could “Instead,” be used as the first word of a sentence without any following “of”?

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What's the difference between "teacher" and "professor"?

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What does “balls” mean as a reply word or interjection?

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What's the best way to use "either" on more than two options?

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Present tense for future events

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Can someone please explain this pun?

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What is the origin of the idiom 'all the rage'?

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Relationship between kingdom, dominion, and doom

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Is there a term that means "oft-used misquotation"?

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What does "above" mean in this context?

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"Infamous" for an event

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Idiom for someone acting extremely out of character

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Is there a word for irrational anger?

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Does "flattered" have a negative meaning in this context?

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Use of "Holocaust" in The Great Gatsby

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Term or phrase for simply moving a problem from one area to another

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Etymology of "medicine" and its Native American usage

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Why is the noun form of "permit" "permission"?

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Should “round” only be used to describe 2-d objects?

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Word for the movement of one fluid within another

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"Poison" is to "poisoned" as "venom" is to what?

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What's the original meaning of "Abraxis"?

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What is the plural form of "SMS"?

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Why is taking a side street called a "rat run"?

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What is an English word which means 'bêtement'?

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Alternatives to the "on the one hand... on the other hand" construct

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Phrase for a child moving around -- "ritching around"?

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I am trying to remember a word/phrase that is often used to describe backwards and heavy handed laws

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What is a word that describes both adding and editing data?

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Evolution of 'deign' and 'disdain'

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What is the difference between "till" and "until"?

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Why is the term "isn't it?" so predominant in Indian English?

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Quite a lot / quite a few / quite a bit

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Noun for something that has been "appended"

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