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What is the Rorschach test?

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Five ways Dickens expanded the English language

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'Bah! Humbug!'? What is humbug?

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Where does the word nativity come from?

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What does it mean to 'move the needle'?

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Who is the POTUS? What is a FLOTUS?

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Where does the word dude come from?

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What is the longest word in English?

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Why 'Dutch courage'?

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Where does the word pundit come from?

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Why Orwell did not like Esperanto?

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What does Kabuki mean? How is this term used in politics?

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What is a smoking gun? Where does the phrase come from?

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Where does the word robot come from?

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Why do we say 'Good' Friday?

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Where does the word Easter come from?

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What is Lent?

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Why are Academy Awards called Oscars?

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What is Globish?

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Irish English: What is cat melodeon?

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