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Top Questions
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Is there a death penalty if you jump off a building (and don't die) in New York?
united-states
law
asked Jan 16, 2018 at 19:54
skeptics.stackexchange.com
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A word for a joke so poorly told and so unfunny that one cannot help but laugh
single-word-requests
translation
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asked May 6, 2014 at 23:53
english.stackexchange.com
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Is it against the law to mispronounce Arkansas?
united-states
law
language
law-enforcement
asked Oct 23, 2014 at 3:40
skeptics.stackexchange.com
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Why doesn’t German have a present continuous tense?
history
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sociolinguistics
asked Dec 30, 2014 at 1:47
german.stackexchange.com
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English equivalent of komorebi (木漏れ日) — "sunshine filtering through leaves"
single-word-requests
nouns
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asked Jun 27, 2014 at 1:57
english.stackexchange.com
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A word for the heart-wrenching pain of wanting someone you can't have
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asked May 1, 2014 at 16:00
english.stackexchange.com
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Why might packaged pineapple contain egg, soy, peanut, fish, milk, sulphites, tree nuts, sesame, crustaceans, shellfish, mustard seeds, wheat?
shopping
pineapple
asked Jun 9, 2015 at 1:06
cooking.stackexchange.com
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Why "No smoking" works but "Yes smoking" doesn't?
etymology
adjectives
phrase-usage
language-evolution
asked Nov 4, 2015 at 15:50
english.stackexchange.com
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Why "English" but not "Anglish"?
etymology
phonology
old-english
historical-change
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asked Apr 27, 2014 at 1:25
english.stackexchange.com
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Could "them" mean "those"?
british-english
pronouns
dialects
personal-pronouns
north-american-english
asked Feb 8, 2014 at 20:55
english.stackexchange.com
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Top Answers
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What word denotes a belief that apparently inanimate objects actually express a malicious, autonomous will?
english.stackexchange.com
81
What is the term for when you become more aware of something?
english.stackexchange.com
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What is the name of this "yawning like" movement?
english.stackexchange.com
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How to jokingly express an "if you pay me, I'll say it" attitude?
english.stackexchange.com
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Is there a word or expression for when someone passionately wants something, and then discovers afterwards that it's different from how he imagined?
english.stackexchange.com
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Is there any English/American equivalent for the Hungarian phrase "beating the nettle with someone else's penis"?
english.stackexchange.com
47
Is there a word for a "cheap page-turner"?
english.stackexchange.com
46
What's the single word to describe the smell of the perfume of someone who just walked by?
english.stackexchange.com
39
Is there a male equivalent of 'bitch'?
english.stackexchange.com
38
Are there English equivalents to the Japanese saying, “There’s a god who puts you down as well as a god who picks you up”?
english.stackexchange.com
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Name that fallacy: If it's more expensive it must be better
english.stackexchange.com
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What's a word or phrase that means "get together with people informally to play music"?
english.stackexchange.com
36
What is a non-gendered synonym for "macho"?
english.stackexchange.com
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How did "s***" and "the s***" come to mean opposite things?
english.stackexchange.com
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What do you call a place where certain ideas are prevalent?
ell.stackexchange.com
34
Word or short phrase for something that constantly monitors
english.stackexchange.com
34
Is there a slang word or idiom for someone who borrows money from friends or relatives and never (or rarely) pays them back?
english.stackexchange.com
33
Is there a saying or proverb for a situation where the weakest party will always lose?
english.stackexchange.com
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Is there any noun in English which changes the first letter in the plural?
english.stackexchange.com
31
What to call someone who always sincerely shows on the outside how and what he feels on the inside?
english.stackexchange.com
31
Term for deliberately gaming the preview screen of YouTube
english.stackexchange.com
31
Is there a word or phrase for walking into a room to get something but then forgetting what you went in there to get?
english.stackexchange.com
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Is there a single word that means “hitting the target but missing the point”?
english.stackexchange.com
29
An idiom for "beginning in the wrong end"
english.stackexchange.com
28
Is there a word for a person who believes all events - past, present and future - have all been predetermined?
english.stackexchange.com
28
Why would my species expose their brains through a glass dome?
worldbuilding.stackexchange.com
28
What do you call the habit of looking into smartphone while walking?
english.stackexchange.com
28
What do we call questions which have a definite, known answer?
english.stackexchange.com
28
"Country" is to "compatriot" as "species" is to what?
english.stackexchange.com
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What is the term describing someone who has interest in only a narrow field, and nothing else?
english.stackexchange.com
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