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13 votes

Origin of “Rob Peter to pay Paul” and “Déshabiller Pierre pour habiller Paul”

expressions etymologie anglais asked Aug 29 '11 at 10:44
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11 votes

Are German words starting with the letter 'p' really of alien origin?

history loanwords asked Jun 17 '11 at 22:52
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10 votes

Deleted answers now invisible to authors below 10k under EL&U and SO

bug status-completed deleted-answers visibility asked May 13 '11 at 12:22
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10 votes

Evolution of the meaning of “to dwell”

etymology history language-evolution old-english asked Apr 13 '11 at 14:44
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9 votes

Meaning of Mann as a tribe rather than a male individual

etymology history obsolete-words asked Jun 7 '11 at 12:02
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8 votes

Why are “an” and “en” pronounced the same? Pourquoi « an » et « en » ont-ils la même prononciation ?

etymologie prononciation histoire phonetique asked Aug 19 '11 at 10:40
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8 votes

Religious sense of “minister”

meaning etymology nouns asked Apr 22 '11 at 6:40
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8 votes

Left (ひだり) and right (みぎ) as cardinal directions

etymology history asked Sep 8 '11 at 16:32
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8 votes

TTF font for Lego bricks

storage asked Apr 7 '12 at 13:49
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7 votes

Etymology of reduplicative compound “nitty-gritty”

etymology american-english asked Mar 30 '11 at 17:29
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Top Answers
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Origin and evolution of “hapless”
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36
From which language has English borrowed the most words?
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29
Data migration - dangerous or essential?
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23
Apart from place names, are there any Native American words used in English?
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22
Where did the “ue” in “tongue” come from?
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21
How does the “be-” prefix change the words to which it is applied? How did it come about?
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20
How and in what way did the Danes come to influence English?
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20
How did English get the “What is your name?” construction?
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19
Why is there no plural indefinite article?
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19
The relationship between “orange” the colour and “orange” the fruit
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18
PsExec gets stuck on licence prompt when running non-interactively
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17
“Liberty” versus “freedom”
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17
“Plausible” vs. “possible”
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16
What's the meaning of the symbol ‡?
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16
Etymology of the color name “orange”
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16
what should a developer know/address to build commercial Android Apps?
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15
What do you call the eating of frogs?
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15
Why did 'y' disappear as an internal vowel in English spelling?
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15
Does the letter C serve any unique purpose?
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15
Old English instead of Latin in early Britain
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15
Pourquoi les néoverbes sont-ils du premier groupe ?
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14
Is the adjective “abject” ever found with any word other than “poverty”? Does it mean something other than “very” or “utterly”?
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14
What is the word for when members of the same group attack each other?
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14
Badge Suggestion: “Late to the Party”
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13
“Stick it in the boot.” “Er, don't you mean the trunk?”
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13
Is the “wit” in “to wit” the root of any other English words?
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13
“Checking” vs. “chequing” vs. “chequeing” with regards to types of bank accounts
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13
Are 'consecutively' and 'successively' the same?
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13
Origin of “jack sh*t”
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13
Was what happened to the pronunciation of the word “church”, as compared to the Scots-English “kirk”, a general phenomenon in Middle English?
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