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Most frequent word

Which is the most frequently-used word in English?  Is it "and" or "the" or another?
07:02 Tue 27th Sep 20059 answers, last by Quizmonster 07:38 Thu 29th Sep 2005
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Missing "/"

If you go to the "People & Places" category, the fifth question down (at the time of writing) is entitled Help! lol. The question starts "For the past 34 years...".  However, when you open...
07:24 Mon 26th Sep 20053 answers, last by tony1941 22:03 Tue 27th Sep 2005
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Choice of portable DVD player

Should I choose one with DivX? My shortlist has two, one with DivX and one without. What would be the advantage of paying more for DivX (excuse my ignorance!).
15:06 Fri 23rd Sep 20052 answers, last by SteveD 15:39 Fri 23rd Sep 2005
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New posters

I thought that new posters' names appeared in green to identify them.  So how come mattinator90 and t_os_538 are in black and can get away with their childish posts?
07:52 Tue 13th Sep 20059 answers, last by january_bug 19:28 Wed 14th Sep 2005
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How do you say 2005?

In order not to hijack Aschenbach's previous question, how many of you say "two thousand and five" and how many say "twenty 0 five"? I say "two thousand and five".
16:39 Tue 06th Sep 200510 answers, last by Coobeastie 00:32 Sat 10th Sep 2005
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British and American English

Notwithstanding the influence of television, film, international communications and travel, will American and British varieties of the English language ever diverge to the extent that they are...
07:22 Fri 02nd Sep 200511 answers, last by Quizmonster 10:32 Tue 06th Sep 2005
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Reporting the hurricane aftermath

Switch on the TV and you will see harrowing on-th-spot reports of the situation in New Orleans, Biloxi etc. How do these people (reporter, camerman) get in and out of these places?  Surely every...
06:58 Fri 02nd Sep 20058 answers, last by SteveD 07:27 Sat 03rd Sep 2005
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Rachel Allen recipe

Does anyone have the recipe for Lemon Ice from last Saturday's programme?  As you can see from the BBC website, they don't publish her recipes: Recipes from the showUnfortunately we cannot...
16:38 Thu 25th Aug 20054 answers, last by SteveD 06:49 Sat 27th Aug 2005
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The boys in blue

In the UK, "The boys in blue" refers to the police.  To me, though, if police uniforms are blue, it's such a dark shade as to be almost black. What is the colour of the material used for police...
10:50 Wed 24th Aug 20054 answers, last by Ward-Minter 15:01 Wed 24th Aug 2005
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Sudoku generation

I assume that sudoku puzzles are generated by a computer programmed to produce grids with the numbers 1-9 in the horizontal rows, the vertical columns and the 9-square boxes. How are numbers then...
07:04 Tue 16th Aug 20053 answers, last by SteveD 16:17 Tue 16th Aug 2005
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What would happen?

What would happen to the Earth (short-term, medium- term and long-term) if the whole of mankind was wiped out overnight?
08:15 Sat 25th Jun 200516 answers, last by buddha01 16:58 Wed 10th Aug 2005
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Reporting ChatterBank posts

In ChatterBank there is a question about moving to Israel.  Clearly this has mistakenly been posted in the wrong category, but it is not possible to report it as such (i.e. bring it to AB Ed's...
07:40 Sat 18th Jun 20058 answers, last by AB Editor 11:31 Mon 20th Jun 2005
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"Back to edit"

It is quite a long time since I posted a question (I've just put one in ChatterBank - "Strange theft").  When I clicked "Submit" I was taken to "Your question may already have been asked" and I...
07:37 Fri 17th Jun 20058 answers, last by THECORBYLOON 20:45 Sat 18th Jun 2005
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Car wash

What happens to the water used by commercial car washes.  Is it filtered and recycled?
15:28 Mon 23rd May 20053 answers, last by Gef 21:48 Mon 23rd May 2005
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Japanese maple

We have a Japanese maple (now about 100 cm tall) which, until last year, was growing happily in a pot on the terrace.  Because (a) the wind kept blowing it over and (b) we felt it was time to...
07:31 Sun 22nd May 20053 answers, last by SteveD 20:39 Sun 22nd May 2005
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Dollars and cents

1. When was a decimal currency system introduced in what is now the USA? 2. Assuming that this was a result of "continental" influence (rather than British), why was a metric system of weights and...
07:14 Sun 24th Apr 20053 answers, last by Ouisch 20:18 Tue 26th Apr 2005
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Da, da, da-da, da

If you sing, play on an instrument or even tap on the table, "Da, da, da-da, da", someone will reply "Da, da". Where does this originate?
14:22 Wed 13th Apr 20055 answers, last by cfox360 22:55 Wed 13th Apr 2005
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The da Vinci Code

KJC0123's language questions in the Phrases & Sayings section in which he quotes passages from "The da Vinci Code" made me wonder if any other Brits found the use of American English out of place...
15:13 Thu 31st Mar 20058 answers, last by Didwot 18:30 Tue 05th Apr 2005

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