English Word of the Day

You might find this story interesting, altho many of the proposed changes weren't taken on board.

YouTube videos of US Congress money laundering hearing of Saudi Billionaire " Maan Al sanea

And now you know what Netflix (net flicks = net movies) stands for.

So the name of the Futurama robot is a wordplay! 2. Slang A spree, especially a drinking spree. (

To clarify: if I understood correctly you say this whenever someone makes an irrealistic assumption

You might could be interested in reading about this. https://allthingslinguistic.com/post/54377391879

If we're banning horrible words staring with "de", I would like to submit the

I found the expression amusing. Is it used often?

Also related to this word: grifter [grif-ter] noun Slang. a person who operates a side show at a

I've seen this word being used informally. I am not sure if it is an exclusively American thing.

When writing a letter, the questions are: 1) Comma or colon after the "Dear ..." 2)

Also, predating the current President of the USA but eminently applicable: trumped-up. trumped-up

Of your options, 2) is better. "Object" would confuse people. Alternatives; "As per

I've seen this word used in the context of a guitar. Is it clothing-specific or is it more

The hypothetical Raúl thanks you dearly for the spared humiliation. On 28 Jan 2018 2:13 am, "

Doxxing (also doxing, but I have seen the first spelling more often) is the act of a person or a

As far as I am aware there isn't even an expression for this in my own language! Basically

Definition of poor man's 1—used to refer to someone (such as a performer) who is like another

Today was the first time I heard about this (Krupp in German). croup 1 (kro͞op) n. A pathological

"I am having difficulties running your program. I was wondering whether you could spare some

Often used in the consulting industry ;) On Wed, Dec 6, 2017 at 3:31 PM, André Vasconcelos <andre.

"chugging" is onomatopoeic - the word for the thing sounds like the sound of the thing

To progress steadily at a slow pace. The analogy comes from trains - their sound is called "chug

winnow 2. remove (people or things) from a group until only the best ones are left. "guidelines

TIL "alliteration" :D On 20 October 2017 at 14:30, Dan Lakey <d...@lakey.info> wrote:

In case anyone is wondering which limb in particular, it's referring to a tree's limb (branch

Related to parenthood.

An analogy using bicycles to describe something commonly observed in politics. To back-pedal verb (

The look on the face of someone who has seen too much. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thousand-

I've only ever heard "peg" and "sieve" for those two items when I was living