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"Last Name" and "surname"

Origin of "It's a fair cop"

British placement of punctuation relative to inverted commas

What does "to have a little form" mean?

What's the difference between 'subway', 'metro' and 'tube'?

Is a comma after the word introduced by 'let alone' in the middle of a sentence needed?

British Mass Nouns versus American Count Nouns

Actor, motor, tutor, ... mentor?

Does the English language have an official Academy? [duplicate]

Why can a bird be pulled but never caught?

Is the proper spelling “judgment” or “judgement”?

BrEng: "pull your finger out", "cock up" and "stuff it" What do they mean?

What Indian words appear in cricket's vocabulary?

How did the practice of identifying an object after using a pronoun evolve?

Pronunciation of GUI in British English

em-dash and comma, which comes first

"Available jobs to/for them"

"bibs and bobs" - what does it mean and where does it come from?

Is the pronunciation of "oa" in "broad" unique?

When did Greenwich begin to be pronounced as "Gren-ich"?