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What reason could Nintendo have had for putting the A and B buttons the wrong way round?
buttons
design
physical
asked Feb 13 at 11:48
ux.stackexchange.com
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“Left” and “right” are to “side” as “front” and “rear” are to what?
single-word-requests
nouns
hypernyms
analogy
asked Oct 17 '12 at 11:29
english.stackexchange.com
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Why is a “splash screen” so called?
etymology
computing
asked Mar 5 at 9:24
english.stackexchange.com
18
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What is the word for unconsciously blocking out background noises?
single-word-requests
asked Nov 16 '11 at 8:37
english.stackexchange.com
17
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“Picking up your litter puts road-workers at risk” — is this strangely-worded road sign grammatically correct?
grammaticality
signage
asked Jul 13 '11 at 8:21
english.stackexchange.com
16
votes
What's the difference between “mistrust” and “distrust”?
meaning
differences
asked Jul 5 '12 at 14:22
english.stackexchange.com
15
votes
Differences between “sledge”, “sleigh” and “sled”
differences
synonyms
dialects
variants
asked Dec 19 '11 at 9:52
english.stackexchange.com
14
votes
Why does “big cheese” mean someone important?
phrases
asked Aug 13 '12 at 15:09
english.stackexchange.com
14
votes
Getting a 2-year-old back to sleep in the middle of the night
toddler
sleep
asked Mar 20 '12 at 10:03
parenting.stackexchange.com
13
votes
What is an alternative to “hairy” for things which don't have hair?
single-word-requests
adjectives
asked Sep 24 '12 at 7:28
english.stackexchange.com
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What does the phrase “Does the Pope sh** in the woods?” mean?
english.stackexchange.com
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Word/phrase to mean something that just happens once
english.stackexchange.com
21
Two children from/with/by my ex-husband
english.stackexchange.com
12
Is there a specific word for describing a person who gets lost easily?
english.stackexchange.com
11
Someone who forms their own opinion
english.stackexchange.com
10
What does 'Not to order' mean?
english.stackexchange.com
9
What does “to trap in amber” mean and where does it come from?
english.stackexchange.com
7
What does “God is subtle, but He is not malicious” mean?
english.stackexchange.com
7
Is it 'what it looks like' or 'how it looks like'?
english.stackexchange.com
7
Still More Syntactic Confusion
english.stackexchange.com
6
How can I form a question for “It recurs every n days”?
english.stackexchange.com
6
The friend who travels with you
english.stackexchange.com
6
“Seek” vs.“search”
english.stackexchange.com
6
“Angry with” vs. “angry at” vs. “angry on”
english.stackexchange.com
6
English equivalent of a Kannada proverb
english.stackexchange.com
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