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What does "sink and copper" mean in British parlance circa 1937?
vocabulary
british-english
literature
Jane Austen "Persuasion" Syntax Analysis
syntactic-analysis
literature
What is the meaning of "pole of time" here?
meaning-in-context
literature
meaning
What does "cup and Chaucer" mean?
phrase-meaning
literature
puns
humor
cultural-phrases
Use of the definite article by Hemingway in "For Whom the Bell Tolls", in a way that doesn't seem to mimic Spanish grammar
definite-articles
literature
spanish
What did Jane Austen mean by "employ for captivation"?
phrases
meaning-in-context
literature
"Goods" or "gods" in The Awakening
word-choice
literature
What is the proper pronunciation for Kipling's character-name "Mowgli"?
pronunciation
pronunciation-vs-spelling
literature
indian-english
eye-dialect
Why is the verb for "pretexts ... and necessity ... was exposed" used in the singular in this quotation? [closed]
grammatical-number
verb-agreement
literature
Meaning of "shot" cloth
meaning
literature
Meaning of "garn" in My Fair Lady
meaning
slang
literature
cinema
Difference between drawn and haggard [closed]
writing-style
collocation
literature
redundancy
Ambiguous line from Browning's My Last Duchess [closed]
phrases
literature
Meaning of "barrer" (noun) in W. Henley's poem "'Liza"
meaning
slang
poetry
literature
Can you explain the pun "erpigarms"
meaning
literature
puns
What is, or was the meaning of "oncommon"?
meaning
history
literature
Hitchens' quote "the cosmos barely bothers to return the reply: why not?" [closed]
quotes
literature
philosophy
Definition of 'cut out in'
phrasal-verbs
literature
literary-english
Grammar question from A Christmas Carol: meaning of "quite as well that -- as have"?
meaning-in-context
literature
Can "But!" be a sentence?
grammar
sentence-patterns
literature
is-it-a-sentence
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