I was interested in the following sentence which appeared in an article titled “Colorless, Tasteless but Not Dangerous" by Dwight Garner in The New York Times (November 15, 2010). People who do gravitate toward these sort of things, he warns, sotto voce, might be “the wrong kind of white pe...

I found a previous question on similar answers and how downvotes should be used. I'd like to ask whether it's acceptable to give answers based on prior answers at all. A question on plagiarism would indcate that it isn't, but that generally focuses on enhancements to prior questions. A side note...

Is "hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia" a real word? What does it mean?

I watch TV series Glee to learn English and came across this phrase : if anything. It's in a sentence Rachel said: "if anything, she is gonna kill all of our chances to achieve that elusive goal(she means nationals by that)" The context is that Mr.shue, the teacher wants to recruit Sugar Mota, ...