Two folks are asked the following question: "How do we best help the manatees?" Person 1 says, "We need to focus on the supply chain." Person 2 says, "What the hell's a manatee?" A math professor of mine described the problem above as the "Manatee Problem" -- a problem in which the...

What am I distinguishing between when parsing names / sounds that could be phrases? Like, "My name is Applejack." Or "Never say Never" Are both distinguishing "Applejack", and "Never" as a sequence of sounds, instead of carrying further meaning... That would be distinguishing between "X and...

The word I'm looking for is not antiquarian. Here's why: The nounal form of antiquarian means "one who collects or studies antiquities." I am looking for a word that specifically denotes one who sells old or rare books. The adjectival form of antiquarian does indeed mean "dealing in old or rare b...

I have a sentence that is framed as I know I did, especially when I’d be acquiesced into something like listening to a boring lecture or playing soccer. I've been told that this is incorrect, or 'not kosher'. How can I rewrite this to be more appropriate without changing the meaning?

Suppose a person is after something or somebody. For example, Tom wants to be with Jane, but somebody else wins her heart, and Tom says, “She was ugly/fat/... anyway.” Is there a word or idiom to describe Tom's reaction?

Is there a word or phrase that means "to start a horse" or "make a horse start moving"? Something like "he [started] his horse". I thought of "urged her horse on" but that sounds like the horse is already moving. "Brought his horse to a canter" sounds okay but I want something that doesn't speci...

For example, the word could be used like this: -This decision will likely help, but it is a [foobar] bad choice: The result of the decision is most likely positive, but if it does end up negative it will be so strongly negative that this outweighs the gains even so.

I see my friend doing exam. He never look for answers when he doing his exam (rarely cheat on exam) and until the 3rd exam he looks for the answers on his notebook during his exam then he started to do it frequently (not every time when he doing an exam) What should I say? Should I say "Jamie sta...

I read Shakespeare's King Lear for the first time and I was wondering if there are words in this play that differ in meaning and use from new modern English? Thanks a lot

Is there a word or term to describe preferred eating habits (other than "eating habits")? That is to say, a catch-all category to describe the states of being a carnivore, vegan, pescitarian, fruititarian, or vegetarian etc. The usage is primarily in a programming context, where a food type can ...

This is similar to a palindrome but instead of a word/sentence that reads the same forwards and backward is there a word for words/sentences that read the same right side up and upside-down? Also what are some examples? See picture below