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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 '18 at 19:54
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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 expression-choice asked May 6 '14 at 23:53
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Is it against the law to mispronounce Arkansas?

united-states law language law-enforcement asked Oct 23 '14 at 3:40
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Why doesn’t German have a present continuous tense?

history tenses sociolinguistics asked Dec 30 '14 at 1:47
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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 '15 at 1:06
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English equivalent of komorebi (木漏れ日) — “sunshine filtering through leaves”

single-word-requests nouns terminology translation asked Jun 27 '14 at 1:57
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A word for the heart-wrenching pain of wanting someone you can't have

single-word-requests phrase-requests asked May 1 '14 at 16:00
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Why “No smoking” works but “Yes smoking” doesn't?

etymology adjectives phrase-usage language-evolution asked Nov 4 '15 at 15:50
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Why doesn't English have a separate word for “head hair”? (head hair vs. body hair)

etymology usage history historical-change origin-unknown asked Jun 10 '14 at 2:11
english.stackexchange.com

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Why “English” but not “Anglish”?

etymology phonology old-english historical-change origin-unknown asked Apr 27 '14 at 1:25
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What word denotes a belief that apparently inanimate objects actually express a malicious, autonomous will?
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What is the term for when you become more aware of something?
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What is the name of this “yawning like” movement?
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How to jokingly express an “if you pay me, I'll say it” attitude?
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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?
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Is there any English/American equivalent for the Hungarian phrase “beating the nettle with someone else's penis”?
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Is there a word for a “cheap page-turner”?
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What's the single word to describe the smell of the perfume of someone who just walked by?
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Is there a male equivalent of 'bitch'?
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Name that fallacy: If it's more expensive it must be better
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What's a word or phrase that means “get together with people informally to play music”?
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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”?
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What is a non-gendered synonym for “macho”?
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How did “s***” and “the s***” come to mean opposite things?
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Word or short phrase for something that constantly monitors
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Is there any noun in English which changes the first letter in the plural?
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Is there a saying or proverb for a situation where the weakest party will always lose?
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Is there a slang word or idiom for someone who borrows money from friends or relatives and never (or rarely) pays them back?
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What to call someone who always sincerely shows on the outside how and what he feels on the inside?
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Is there a word or phrase for walking into a room to get something but then forgetting what you went in there to get?
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Term for deliberately gaming the preview screen of YouTube
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Is there a single word that means “hitting the target but missing the point”?
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28
An idiom for “beginning in the wrong end”
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What do we call questions which have a definite, known answer?
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Is there a word for a person who believes all events - past, present and future - have all been predetermined?
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What do you call the habit of looking into smartphone while walking?
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“Country” is to “compatriot” as “species” is to what?
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What is the term describing someone who has interest in only a narrow field, and nothing else?
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Antonym for lying?
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Is there English proverb or saying equivalent to Chinese / Japanese common proverb 李下に冠を正さず- Don’t touch (redress) your coronet under the plum tree?
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