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Footwear: Runners. Sneakers. Trainers

Origin of “the apple doesn’t fall far from the tree”

"What went we out into this wilderness to find?" This sentence is grammatically correct. How?

Flapping in British English

What is the origin of BrEng ‘bird’ meaning “young woman”?

Dinner at mine or yours?

What does the phrase "God and my twin vicars" mean?

"emmet-butt" - Westcountry dialect

What is the meaning, history, and current popularity of "of a Monday" (or Tuesday, or Wednesday, etc.)?

Using 'do' unnecessarily

Is there any literary name attributed to 12 verse length stanza?

How common is yod-coalescence in modern RP?

Is the pronunciation difference between “BrE deuce” vs “AmE deuce” systematic?

Why the does 'tu' get pronounced 'tyu' in British English?

What is the name of the phoneme produced in an upper-class Briton's pronunciation of the word "Duke"? What's different in the articulation?

Bibs & Bobs vs. Bits & Bobs [duplicate]

Etymology of 'slap-up'

Sports – singular or plural

Is it correct to use "got" when expressing the simple past tense in British English?

Why is The Mall (Westminster, London) pronounced like mawl?