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CowperKettle

03:06

Words of the day: butt doors, door butt. Butt doors have their door butts on the opposite sides of the cabinet

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04:51

Q: The lightning struck the hut and set it alight or set it on fire?

Let's say you were storytelling something about a hut that was struck by lightning, is there any difference between the two? The lightning struck the hut and set it alight? Vs. The lightning struck the hut and set it on fire?

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CowperKettle

10:43

Q: What do I call a building with a variable number of storeys?

I'm translating the description of a city block design. The city block is basically a single building with a variable number of storeys: different sections of this block-sized building have different floor counts. There's the expression "peremennoy etazhnosti" in Russian for this, meaning "of va...