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What do you call a moderate victory?

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Why is the word "aelfheres" in Beowulf lowercase? Is it really a name?

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Is Swirling a noun?

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What's the origin of the idiom "miss the boat"?

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Is there a word or phrase used to describe romantic partners of a family both married and unmarried but not the family itself?

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Collective nouns with plural verbs: the 'American practice/s' versus the 'British practice/s'

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The meaning of ''as also'' in the given paragraph?

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What is the difference between "whereabout" and "whereabouts"

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Who are they? and why used past tense, “were + ing”?

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"Report by" or "report from"

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"on here" vs "in here" for websites

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"Which" Relative Clause--"Which", "Of Which", or what?

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Can you explain the sentence structure 'In a hole in the ground there lived a Hobbit'? Why put the verb before the subject?

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A phrase for a tip or trick passed down from one generation to the next

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