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- 1Language › LinguisticsHardIn paired words like zig-zag, tick-tock and ping-pong, which vowel almost always comes first?Right1.0s+100
- 2Language › Word OriginsExpertWhich future novelist worked on the OED in 1919-20, on words beginning with W?Wrong2.8s0
- 3Language › Word OriginsMediumThe "sir" in "sirloin" really comes from a French word meaning what?Wrong2.8s0
- 4Language › Word OriginsMediumWho coined the word "scapegoat" in his English Bible translation?Wrong1.6s0
- 5Language › Idioms & PhrasesMediumIn "hoist with his own petard", what is a petard?Wrong3.7s0
- 6Language › TypographyVery hardIn Spanish the @ sign is 'arroba', also the name of an old unit of what?Right2.4s+99
- 7Language › TypographyHardMany old typewriters had no exclamation mark key. How did typists make one?Wrong7.1s0
- 8Language › Word OriginsHard'Apricity', recorded in a 1623 dictionary, names what pleasant thing?Wrong4.3s0
- 9Language › Idioms & PhrasesEasyThe phrase "sour grapes" comes from a fable by whom?Right1.8s+100
- 10Language › Word OriginsEasy"Bus" is short for "omnibus", a Latin word meaning what?Right1.8s+100