In the 21st century in the USA, it probably happens ten times per hour in classrooms. "Screw up" has become a slang expression that is used almost...
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The French region of Brittany (which they call Bretagne) is the home of the ancestors of the Celtic people who originally lived in what is now...
"Strident" refers to a spoken sound that is harsh, shrill, or annoying in some other way. A strident warning would be a warning that implies that if...
Like most European populations, today's Irish community has DNA from quite a few nearby people. Nonetheless, having lived on their own island for...
It comes from Dutch steken, meaning "to stick" and snijden, "to cut." Steken is obviously our word "stick" with some phonetic changes. We don't have...
Virtually all paleontologists find overwhelming evidence that the first Homo sapiens appeared in south and/or central Africa, whereas the...
Yes, but all those bumper stickers proclaiming "Frodo Lives" are still wrong. :(
Everybody's different. What works for one person won't necessarily succeed with someone else. The only commonality is that you simply have to eat...
Most "words" (which is not a very good translation of the way a native speaker would say it) are combinations of two or three monosyllables, for the...
As Baldeee already explained, "unless" is correct. It's possible to build a sentence with "except," but it's rather awkward: "I will not forgive you,...
My wife sent in the spit test. She has ancestors from several populations, and the test got it all 100% correct.
My ex-wife lived there for a couple of years, but I've never been there.
No, she's been gone for a while, perhaps four or five years. It's been great without her. The admins sold the website to another group of people....
Yes, but there's more to it. To "beat around the bush" means that you're talking about something which is (at least slightly) important, but for...
Sorry. Thanks for the explanation. Nonetheless, since we (at least most of us) stopped discriminating against African-Americans in the 1960s, it...
There are websites that specialize in that. One of them asks you to smear some saliva on a little stick, then they'll analyze it and tell you where...
The only religions I know of, whose members do not wage war, are Baha'i and Rastafarianism. Both are very new: Baha'i arose in the 19th century, and...
Actually, running it though my brain, I think that there's only one phoneme in Hebrew that we don't have in English: the sound KH. And we're so...
ON the radio or television. We also say simply "on radio" or "on TV." No, although everyone would understand you. There are several other slang ways...
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