According to many (I cannot find a source at the moment), Albert Einstein's brain weighed less than average. It is a common belief that there is no correlation between brain mass and intelligence. Is this true?

I often notice such sentences as: "EEG did show tumors"(from this week House M.D.) Why not "EEG showed tumors"? Is that form used to emphasize something?

This morning I read this sentence (see story): On July 24th and again on July 29th, Egyptian police did shoot dead unarmed African migrants attempting to cross that border. Why "did shoot" and not "shot"?

House and Mouse are only different by one letter, there must be a connection.

Is there a word for a person who doesn't like to masturbate? If so, what would he/she/it be known as?

I'm trying to prove the following: If $(a_n)$ is a sequence of positive numbers such that $\sum_{n=1}^\infty a_n b_n<\infty$ for all sequences of positive numbers $(b_n)$ such that $\sum_{n=1}^\infty b_n^2<\infty$, then $\sum_{n=1}^\infty a_n^2 <\infty$. The context here is functio...

How come the word "chore" is pronounced like it is, when the word "choreography", which has the same initial letter combination, is pronounced differently? Is there a phonetical rule to explain this?

I'm hard-of-hearing, so when I read, I pronounce things phonetically because I don't hear a lot of soft sounds (like /sh/). To my surprise over the years, I've been continuously corrected on words that have a "ch" sound in them. For example, "parachute" is pronounced "para shoot" \ˈper-ə-ˌshüt, ...

Is there a word for a person who doesn't like to masturbate? If so, what would he/she/it be known as?

In English, a doubled consonant most commonly means "shorten the previous vowel", where "shorten" means map phonemes like this: [aɪ] -> [i] [oʊ] -> [ɔ] etc For example, fury is pronounced [fjʊri] but add another 'r' and you get [fəri]. Now, obviously this doesn't make much orthographic sense...

Possible Duplicate: focussed or focused? The double consonant Most of the time, final consonants double when adding -ed or -ing to the end of a verb who's penultimate letter is a vowel. stop -> stopping grab -> grabbing mar -> marring run -> running But sometimes, the consonant is ...

Initially my question was if is it "focussed" or "focused", but since this applies to a lot of words there is supposed to be a rule when to double the consonant?

Some verbs can have double "l"s in the gerund form. For example: Modeling; modelling Traveling; travelling Which form should we use, or which form is used more in the literature?

The past tense of to occur is occurred (not occured), but the past tense of to listen is listened (not listenned). Why? Which is the general rule that is applied to make the past tense of a verb?

I was wondering, why are the present and the past participle of submit spelled with two t?

in -> inner out -> outer / (outter?) What is the history or set of rules behind why 'inner' doubles the 'n' but 'outer' doesn't double the 't'?

Cancelled or Canceled ? Which one is right? You have successfully canceled the registration or You have successfully cancelled the registration

Since travel becomes traveler and traveling in AmE (no double l), I thought that the same rule applied to propel. However, reading and writing propeling feels awkward. (And propeler feels even more awkward...) What is the correct spelling in American English? (Google seems to definitely favors...

House and Mouse are only different by one letter, there must be a connection.