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Nigel J

Worcestershire, UK

http://www.belmontpublications.co.uk

To accurately convey concepts, requires precise language. Supervisor of Homeless Hostels, Gloucester City Council. Versed a number of books of the Bible into accurate poetry - Job, Lamentations, Song of Solomon, Isaiah, Revelation, Hebrews. Other books are on my website and email address.

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Top Questions

Why is the 'anti' in 'anti-semitism'?

etymology prefixes asked Dec 2 '19 at 5:59

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Why and when did 'Down's Syndrome' change to 'Down Syndrome'?

etymology names asked Mar 18 '18 at 16:20

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When is the earliest usage of 'woke' and 'wokeness' in their meaning of awareness of social injustice?

meaning american-english neologisms asked Dec 19 '17 at 17:15

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How and when did 'being fired' come to mean losing one's job?

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Why do some ---ify verbs have a different noun ending?

etymology suffixes latin derivational-morphology ending asked Feb 23 '18 at 1:20

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What has this tree done, with respect to the fence (picture)?

single-word-requests asked Oct 30 '18 at 15:02

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What part of speech is 'say' ? If I were, say, to use it?

meaning part-of-speech syntactic-analysis asked Mar 3 '18 at 15:42

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Is 'server', as used of restaurant server, only an AmE expression?

american-english british-english gender-neutral asked Jul 23 '18 at 10:23

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'It addicted me, with one taste.' Can 'addict' be used transitively?

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What is the origin of 'fuddy-duddy'?

etymology origin-unknown reduplication asked Jan 6 '18 at 14:40

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Top Answers

What word means “the top of a person's head”?

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Is there a general word or phrase to describe the things you do after getting up, such as face-washing?

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How should I understand 16.8 hours a week?

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The idiom used when a bad situation is not fully resolved and can escalate easily again

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What are names for a gold digger's man?

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What does 'Big Hand, Small Map' mean?

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Shoes with no laces?

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What is the phrase or idiom for older people who still can function properly

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Backstabs you constantly in a subtle way

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Is there a word for a question asked despite knowing the answer, but meant to elicit a response for the sake of the audience?

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Name for a device that prevents the user from operating something incorrectly

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Word request: a period of time in which someone's best work was done

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What do you call it when a scam artist modifies the contents of a document to deceive other people?

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Mizzle and drizzle

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Where is the ‘abaft the beam’?

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Is there a word/ phrase to describe somebody who has devoted their life to practising something but is still not very good at it?

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Another word for “theory” or “belief” that doesn't quite rise to the level of either. An atheist's “theory” of creation

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Is it appropriate to refer to God as “It”?

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Word for something I should have said

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Person who suffers from unrequited love

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Word for the movement of one fluid within another

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What do you call a spy's code name?

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Why is it “on the inside” and not “in the inside”?

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Word for giving preference to the oldest child

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What does Matthew 9:5 mean that it is “easier” to say “Your sins are forgiven”?

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What is “gratricide”?

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How did English retain its non-Christian names of the week?

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Idiom meaning to talk about something everyone already knows

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Word for taking the long way round a problem?

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Another word for “theory” or “belief” that doesn't quite rise to the level of either. An atheist's “theory” of creation

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