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- What is the origin of the word ‘quiz’? https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/explore/what-is-the-origin-of-the-word-quiz/ 2 comments
- And the Oxford English Dictionary Word of the Year 2018 is...... https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/word-of-the-year/word-of-the-year-2018 6 comments books
- In English, why is the suffix meaning "a person or thing who does something" interchangeably -er, -or, and -ar? https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/spelling/nouns-ending-in-er-or-and-ar 35 comments linguistics
- Patient has locked-in syndrome after stroke, can only communicate through blinks. What's the most efficient way to structure the alphabet? https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/explore/which-letters-are-used-most 152 comments math
- Having difficulty wrapping my head around the -ious suffix in words like delicious https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/spelling/prefixes-and-suffixes 29 comments linguistics
- It is now safe to revert back to those emails. Oxford dictionary updates entry on 'revert'. https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/revert 23 comments india
- Word of the Year 2016 is post-truth. https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/word-of-the-year/word-of-the-year-2016 4 comments politics
- Bollockstream Core spent over a year developing contentious vaporware SegWit. They wasted all this time because they censored opposing views, and now it's biting them in the ass. They should have allowed open discussion so the contentious viewpoints were heard, not hidden. https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/bollocks 57 comments btc