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What would cause the peel of a lime to turn yellow?

storage lemon color lime asked Mar 10, 2021 at 9:21

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When and why did "No man is an island" start being regarded as a poem?

poetry textual-history essays john-donne devotions-upon-emergent-occasions asked Mar 15, 2021 at 6:04

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What is specifically Dutch about light bulbs?

historical-context dutch-language cheese willem-elsschot asked May 27 at 8:02

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Chilli peppers in fifteenth-century India?

historical-context translation portuguese-literature the-lusiads luis-vaz-de-camoes asked Mar 28, 2021 at 8:22

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Is there still a Belgian vs. French distinction between "quatorze jours" and "quinze jours"?

belgique asked Feb 3, 2021 at 4:09

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14 votes

Did Philip Larkin use a swearword while quoting from Pym's Excellent Women?

quote-source wording-choice philip-larkin barbara-pym excellent-women asked Jan 28 at 21:52

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Why is it considered inappropriate to say "une fois" at the end of a sentence when speaking to a Belgian?

belgique asked Feb 1, 2021 at 11:01

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12 votes

"Miss" as a form of address to a married teacher in Bethan Roberts' "My Policeman"

historical-context wording-choice bethan-roberts my-policeman asked Mar 17, 2023 at 7:54

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12 votes

In Indian cooking, what does it mean when a recipe says "until the oil begins to leave the side of the pan"?

oil indian-cuisine asked Nov 14, 2016 at 5:28

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12 votes

British Duke is murdered in elevator. Title is inherited by one of a pair of identical twins, both of whom are suspects

identification-request asked Feb 19 at 11:01

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Pointer expressions: *ptr++, *++ptr and ++*ptr

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What is the equivalent in English of the French "pipotron", which refers to meaningless filler content that looks like it was written by a bot?

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Was Odysseus considered unfaithful to his wife in the Odyssey?

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Since when has Shakespeare's "Scottish play" been considered unlucky?

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Could you actually go around the world in 80 days?

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Jordan's line about intimate parties in The Great Gatsby?

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C char array initialization: what happens if there are less characters in the string literal than the array size?

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Word for low level noise among restless crowd, as sign of confusion or complaint?

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Was Paradise Lost the first major work of literature to give "sympathy for the devil"?

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Did Philip Larkin use a swearword while quoting from Pym's Excellent Women?

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LinkedList Struct Typedef in C

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No mayonnaise in Ireland?

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What does "Funnies" refer to?

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What does "the horse and buggy was not going the way of the horse and buggy" mean?

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When you tell a joke and nobody laughs

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What is the opposite of "early birds"

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What does the expression 'seven for seven thirty ' mean?

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Does Winston Smith die at the end of 1984?

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Is this a typo in my copy of The Hunchback of Notre Dame?

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Meaning of "furnished with a pipe and a supply of cold without" in Trollope's "Orley Farm"

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Chilli peppers in fifteenth-century India?

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Why are all the schoolchildren referred to as guns in Clint Smith's "The Gun"?

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A phrase, word, or idiom to describe the person who reviews as an outsider

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C/C++ intentional out of range indexing

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Why did Dantès have to be imprisoned?

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What is the meaning of "To Autumn"?

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What does "Happy man be his dole" mean in The Taming of the Shrew?

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Does "girlfriend" or "boyfriend" always indicate partnership?

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Is "He is on the swim team" correct?

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Are Don Juan and Haidée both Greek, as this line in the poem seems to suggest?

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