- WHAT'S THE difference between "incidence" and "incident?
- What is the meaning of "knock your socks off "?
- Is it "eighty foot road" or "eighty feet road"?
- What is the difference in pronunciation between "beer" and "bear"?
- What is the meaning and pronunciation of "lingua franca"?
- On being antsy, miffed & so on
- WHICH IS correct? "None of us is impressed" or "None of us are impressed"?
- What is the meaning of "danseuse"?
- What is the meaning of "between the devil and the deep blue sea"?
- How is the word "franchise" pronounced?
- What is the meaning of "shot in the arm"?
- WHAT IS the meaning of the idiom "To set the Thames on fire"?
- What is the meaning of "chokers"?
- Is it ok to say "the shoe has a fascination for me"?
- Which is correct? "Relieved of" or "relieved off"?
- What's the difference between "endemic" and "epidemic"?
- WHAT IS the difference between "up-and-coming" and "upcoming"?
- What is the meaning and origin of "get on the soapbox"?
- What is the meaning of "second cousin"?
- What is the meaning and origin of "Faustian deal"?
- How is the word "repertoire" pronounced?
- Which of the following is correct? "One of the cars have run out of gas" or "one of the cars has run out of gas"?
Know Your English - March 2004
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| Definition: | (adjective) Open to argument or debate. |
| Synonyms: | arguable, debatable, moot |
| Usage: | He certainly looked at her friend a great deal, but the expression of that look was disputable. |
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  The ChekaEstablished by Vladimir Lenin in 1917, the All-Russian Extraordinary Commission for Combating Counter-Revolution, Speculation, and Sabotage, also known as the Cheka, was the first in a succession of Soviet state security organizations. Its troops policed labor camps, ran the Gulag system, put down worker riots, and orchestrated the campaign of repression that came to be known as the "Red Terror." Early Chekists made wearing what apparel fashionable among Western Communists? More... Discuss |
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 Copyright Act of 1790 Signed into US Law (1790)After the US Constitution was ratified in 1788, one of the first issues that the fledgling government faced was the lack of a copyright law. Without it, Congress would be swamped with individual petitions for protection from piracy. Modeled on Britain's Statute of Anne, the Copyright Act of 1790 was soon signed into law by President Washington. Instituted to encourage learning by securing US authors the sole rights to their work for 14-year periods, it drew what complaint from Charles Dickens? More... Discuss |
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 Lady Margaret Beaufort (1443)Beaufort was an English noblewoman, wife of Edmund Tudor, and the mother of Henry VII, founder of the Tudor Dynasty. She gave birth to Henry at 13, shortly after being widowed, and developed a close bond with her only child. Renowned for her philanthropy, she endowed professorships of divinity at Oxford and Cambridge and with the help of her confessor, John Fisher, founded Christ's College and St. John's College, Cambridge. She later acted as regent for Henry VIII. How many times did she marry? More... Discuss |
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 No man is offended by another man's admiration of the woman he loves; it is the woman only who can make it a torment.Jane Austen (1775-1817) Discuss |
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