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'Tons dead' is an unusual choice of units.
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The collective noun suggester is suggesting that the collective noun for misheard words is: a quiver of errors.

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Question for speakers of British English:

I was watching a British Netflix show (The Gentlemen, created by Guy Ritchie) and one of the characters said "You're in the right ballpark" to mean "your guess is approximately right".

It's a common phrase in the U.S., but it comes from baseball. Is it […]

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caption from a photo says "Tyler the Creator, US-American Rapper and Producer"

Question for non-United States folks ... Is the adjective/description "US-American" common, or at least familiar to you? I noticed this caption on #wikipedia. (It's better than "USian," I suppose.)

Arguments against the U.S. using "American" as its demonym […]

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Multiple survey - english speech services Multiple survey

There are multiple questions in Geoff Lindsay’s short multiple choice questionnaire on the changing use of *multiple* in English.

It only took me a couple of minutes.

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It's a doggy-dog world.

Six of one half, a dozen of the other.

Also, that sentence is a bit off. Sted: " ... WHICH idioms or colloq. do LOTS OF PEOPLE get wrong?" (Can't say that "people" --implying all--"constantly" get smthg wrong.)

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Ex-term-in-ate! In terms of keyly core components of Guardianese, the dialect of those who read and write for The Guardian, Britain’s premier papyrocentric purveyor of progressive performativity, there can be litt…

Ex-term-in-ate!

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Cults: what's good and what's bad about them In some circles, it seems, the word "cult" denotes something that is automatically assumed to be bad, and some people who make this assumpt...

Cults: what's good and what's bad about them?

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