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What do you call a building, or rooms within it, where doctors see their patients?

word(s) to describe someone judge others by one tiny detail

Are there any studies on changes in British English to become more like American English?

Why does "going to kip" mean "going to sleep"?

"Theater" vs. "Theatre" in American English

Second name or Surname in British English

Pronunciation of 'cos' (as in the mathematical term)

"hotting up" vs "heating up" [closed]

Why "horseback riding" and not simply "horse riding"?

"Not... neither" or "not... nor"

Why "paediatrics" but "pedagogue" in British English?

French Letters and condoms

What is the meaning and etymology of the adjective "jammy", of Yorkshire English?

What is the etymology of the word "howwa", meaning "that thing"?

Why in Britain do we stop for a 'coffee', but a 'cup of tea'?

How is "cyan" pronounced and where is the stress?

How and when did the ('chiefly British') sense of 'wheeze', meaning 'good plan, scheme' arise?

How to say in a compact way: an increase of something is due to decrease in something else

Where does "three line whip" come from?