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Etymology of "marketing:" how/when did it change meaning? [closed]
etymology
historical-change
errors
Usage of "Breaking News" over "News Flash" in television news
etymology
terminology
british-english
historical-change
Did the Great Vowel Shift on the long vowel /i/ occur in non-primary stressed syllables?
phonology
historical-change
great-vowel-shift
'Gwine': How accurate is the African-American dialect in early 20th c writing?
historical-change
african-american-vernacular-english
eye-dialect
Origin and evolution of 'on the bubble' in senses related to 'having an uncertain outcome'
etymology
idioms
phrase-meaning
historical-change
phrase-origin
What idiom was used before "to be on the same wavelength"?
phrases
idioms
historical-change
What did the word "arcade" mean before video games? [closed]
meaning
grammar
history
historical-change
Is "different from" or "different than" more correct? [duplicate]
word-usage
historical-change
What did "Aryan" mean in the 1930s?
meaning
etymology
meaning-in-context
history
historical-change
Is the term Indian Giver politically correct?
etymology
offensive-language
historical-change
transatlantic-differences
political-correctness
Rase: another spelling of raze (literary) [closed]
orthography
pronunciation-vs-spelling
historical-change
literary-english
variants
How, really, to determine if a trope or joke is still current? Can it be done?
idioms
historical-change
Why does the word "school" contain an 'h'?
etymology
orthography
history
historical-change
Difference of "I am just an ABC" vs "I am but a XYZ"
word-choice
semantics
historical-change
nuance
How did it happen that there are two different words "insulation" and "isolation" for virtually the same concept? [closed]
etymology
loanwords
historical-change
Has "thanks" always been as common of a courtesy as it now is?
american-english
history
historical-change
Was it ever standard to pronounce "malinger" to rhyme with "ginger"?
pronunciation
pronunciation-vs-spelling
historical-change
Polish (the substance, not the language)
etymology
nouns
uncountable-nouns
historical-change
When was "Guru" - sanskrit term meaning teacher - popularized?
historical-change
popularity
Was /ˈsoʊldyər/ (rather than /ˈsoʊldʒər/) still common pronunciation in England in the late 1960s?
pronunciation
historical-change
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