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Etymology of "marketing:" how/when did it change meaning? [closed]

Usage of "Breaking News" over "News Flash" in television news

Did the Great Vowel Shift on the long vowel /i/ occur in non-primary stressed syllables?

'Gwine': How accurate is the African-American dialect in early 20th c writing?

Origin and evolution of 'on the bubble' in senses related to 'having an uncertain outcome'

What idiom was used before "to be on the same wavelength"?

What did the word "arcade" mean before video games? [closed]

Is "different from" or "different than" more correct? [duplicate]

What did "Aryan" mean in the 1930s?

Is the term Indian Giver politically correct?

Rase: another spelling of raze (literary) [closed]

How, really, to determine if a trope or joke is still current? Can it be done?

Why does the word "school" contain an 'h'?

Difference of "I am just an ABC" vs "I am but a XYZ"

How did it happen that there are two different words "insulation" and "isolation" for virtually the same concept? [closed]

Has "thanks" always been as common of a courtesy as it now is?

Was it ever standard to pronounce "malinger" to rhyme with "ginger"?

Polish (the substance, not the language)

When was "Guru" - sanskrit term meaning teacher - popularized?

Was /ˈsoʊldyər/ (rather than /ˈsoʊldʒər/) still common pronunciation in England in the late 1960s?