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What is the etymology of "…kick ass and take names"?
etymology
idioms
literature
Tolkien and archaic English [closed]
archaicisms
literature
Sam Weller in The Pickwick Papers: What accent is Dickens portraying?
literature
accent
dickens
eye-dialect
The "F-word" in N-gram Viewer
etymology
literature
frequency-analysis
Why is the verb "Pilot" capitalized in Robinson Crusoe?
capitalization
literature
historical-change
What does Maugham mean by "his spaghetti were"? [duplicate]
grammatical-number
literature
uncountable-nouns
What does "FRANCE TO PLACE" mean?
meaning
literature
What do we call 'Shakespearean trash-talk'?
single-word-requests
phrase-requests
literature
shakespeare
literary-english
What word is the opposite of "plagiarism", trying to pass off your own work as that of others?
single-word-requests
literature
plagiarism
What's an early modern English excalmation roughly meaning "raise the roof!"?
idioms
translation
literature
early-modern-english
exclamations
Is there a pessimistic counterpart to the term "Pollyanna"?
single-word-requests
antonyms
literature
What does "stick-at-naught" mean?
meaning
british-english
literature
Is the phrase "yellow card" slang for a female body part?
meaning
literature
What great writers have used coordinating conjunctions at the start of sentences?
conjunctions
sentence-starts
literature
is-it-a-rule
coordinating-conjunctions
What's the grammar used in "just what quarter he did not now remember" from the book 1984?
grammar
literature
A sentence from <the box tunnel> [closed]
british-english
writing
literature
sentence-patterns
language-evolution
Charles Dickens' "for good and for evil" and "superlative degree of comparison"
meaning
literature
dickens
What words are commonly mispronounced by literate people who read them before they heard them?
pronunciation
vocabulary
literature
list-request
I like her too ill to attempt it
meaning-in-context
literature
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