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Five Bell Ringing Idioms?

on January 01, 2025

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What is the Rorschach test?

on December 29, 2024

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How did A Christmas Carol change the English language?

on December 09, 2024

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Where does the word dude come from?

on July 15, 2024

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Most versatile word in English?

on May 08, 2024

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How fast is the English language expanding?

on May 03, 2024

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Words with the most separate meaning?

on May 01, 2024

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

on May 01, 2024

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What is a word?

on April 15, 2024

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Why 'Maundy' Thursday?

on March 28, 2024

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Where does the word tycoon come from?

on January 06, 2024

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How has Latin influenced the English language?

on January 06, 2024

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Female gigolo?

on November 05, 2023

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Ten Dickensian eponyms?

on October 17, 2023

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Origin of word blackmail?

on August 07, 2023

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What does 'performative' mean?

on July 16, 2023

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Most popular word in English?

on April 13, 2017

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Most common spelling mistakes in English?

on April 04, 2017

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25 most looked-up words in the dictionary?

on September 07, 2015

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Words most looked-up in dictionary? Holistic

on February 13, 2015

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