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Top Questions
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How does the SpaceX Falcon 9 first-stage straighten for landing?
spacex
falcon-9
landing
first-stage
droneship
asked May 31 '16 at 7:59
space.stackexchange.com
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In old books, why is the first word of the next page printed at the bottom of this page?
history
typography
asked Feb 2 '12 at 14:32
english.stackexchange.com
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Where do “shenanigans” come from?
etymology
american-english
slang
origin-unknown
asked Dec 19 '13 at 4:31
english.stackexchange.com
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First use of on-screen text messages, like in Sherlock and House of Cards
film-techniques
sherlock
first-appearance
asked Feb 6 '13 at 10:44
movies.stackexchange.com
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Has Apple hidden any tributes to Steve Jobs?
applications
hidden-features
asked Dec 21 '15 at 8:05
apple.stackexchange.com
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“… gets my goat”. What's my goat and why does it get it?
etymology
idioms
saying
asked Dec 18 '13 at 16:26
english.stackexchange.com
23
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Capitalisation of Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn
bug
status-completed
facebook
spelling
twitter
asked Aug 7 '11 at 9:47
meta.stackexchange.com
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Phrase: “Colder than a witch’s kiss!”
etymology
phrases
american-english
saying
comparative
asked Dec 16 '13 at 11:56
english.stackexchange.com
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What does “thot” mean and when was it first used?
meaning
etymology
slang
offensive-language
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asked Dec 17 '13 at 11:36
english.stackexchange.com
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Don't let me suggest a tag synonym, if I don't have enough score to do so
feature-request
tag-synonyms
asked Jan 14 '14 at 7:00
meta.stackexchange.com
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Top Answers
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What's the fastest way to delete a large folder in Windows?
stackoverflow.com
498
Best way to replace multiple characters in a string?
stackoverflow.com
188
Mass deleting files in Windows
superuser.com
91
“Username”, “user name” or “user-name”
english.stackexchange.com
91
Where were “should”, “shall”, and “must” in the 18th Century?
english.stackexchange.com
89
Plurals of acronyms, letters, numbers — use an apostrophe or not?
english.stackexchange.com
76
pip install PIL fails
stackoverflow.com
68
Deleting large amount of files in Windows is slow
superuser.com
66
What did “google” mean in the 1900s?
english.stackexchange.com
64
Are there any words I can use to disambiguate “biweekly”?
english.stackexchange.com
62
What is the origin of foo and bar?
stackoverflow.com
47
Alternative terms to “Blacklist” and “Whitelist”
english.stackexchange.com
46
What was the first crossover movie like The Avengers, using only movie franchises?
movies.stackexchange.com
44
Terminology for fake photograph
english.stackexchange.com
44
Origin of the term “wizard” in computing
english.stackexchange.com
44
What is the origin of ZOMG?
english.stackexchange.com
43
Where is pip cache folder
stackoverflow.com
42
Is there any difference between being ill and sick?
ell.stackexchange.com
41
FreqDist in NLTK not sorting output
stackoverflow.com
37
Why does “bananas” mean “crazy”?
english.stackexchange.com
36
Using the expression “the same” for a previously mentioned item
english.stackexchange.com
36
How did the letter Z come to be associated with sleeping/snoring?
english.stackexchange.com
35
Where does the term “Smurfing” come from?
english.stackexchange.com
35
How to choose the cascade file for face detection?
stackoverflow.com
33
“Sign in”, “signin” or “sign-in”
english.stackexchange.com
32
What exactly is “I'mma?”
english.stackexchange.com
31
Are there any statistics that show the popularity of Git versus SVN?
softwareengineering.stackexchange.com
31
“Todo list” or “to-do list”
english.stackexchange.com
31
Why don’t we write poetry like Beowulf any longer?
english.stackexchange.com
30
Measuring width of text (Python/PIL)
stackoverflow.com
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