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Kate Bunting

Derby, UK

Retired librarian with a lifelong interest in words.

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Why is Nike pronounced "naikee" and not "naik"?
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What do you call a child for whom you act as a guardian / custodian?
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Syntactical problem? Musk's tweet "I Am Become Meme, Destroyer Of Shorts"
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Historically, did "Oh my Gosh" originate as an anti-God expression?
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Why do you say "air conditioned" and not "conditioned air"?
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"Their hunt the roast vegetable sauce": can you parse this?
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What is the word for a person who destroys monuments?
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Strange omission of "to be": "The ground was hard and the rime thick and crisp on the grass."
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Is there a noun for a man who wrote a best-seller book?
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What's the difference between making something “in ten minutes” or “for ten minutes"?
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My dad doesn't want me to TOUCH alcohol
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Idiom request: an unacceptable amount of effort
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What do 'flat-chested' and 'unromantic' mean when speaking of a house?
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Are you an English? Are you a British?
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Mimsy were the Borogoves - why is "mimsy" an adjective?
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Is it rude to say "Speak of the devil- Here is Grandma now!"?
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Why do they not say "The Baby"
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Is the word "repeat" really used as a synonym of "vomit"?
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Why is the singular "dress" used in "all wearing traditional dress"?
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When the Gentle Giant song "Black Cat" refers to a cat as "she", does that mean the cat is female?
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Is correct to say "her hair is black by nature/in nature" to mean that she or her hair was born that way?
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What is the verb for describing the movement of a cat's paw when it is trying to hit something with it?
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Why do we use approximate in the present and estimated in the past?
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Brown and clear water of a stream
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What is the difference between "a spade" and "a shovel"?
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Why never enter a man’s room in months ending in ‘R’?
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28
"Every" or "Not one"?
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What do you call the art of 'proper' bearing? (French 'maintien')
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"Get used to cold weather" or "get used to the cold weather"?
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Time of day between morning and noon
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