niryuu/sni-each-converted huggingface dataset:
Question: Possible Duplicates: Gender neutral pronoun Is it correct to use "their" instead of "his or her"? I am writing software documentation. I have this issue: I am talking about a generic user of the software. Should I say "his preferences", "his/her preferences" or "its preferences"? 
Answer: Do not use the passive voice in documentation addressed to the user. Address all instructions to the person who will follow them. The second person is appropriate, and (as this paragraph demonstrates) does not incur excessive use of the informal "you" if one sticks to the imperative tense. If addressing an administrator who himself has users, refer to the users with male gender as it is the grammatical convention. The problem is easily avoided by referring to them collectively, and using the phrase "the user" often.
Output: no
Question: "Hooker", "whore", and "prostitute" all mean whore; what are the differences between them? 
Answer: Prostitute: The long technical term a person who has sex for money. Hooker: A slang term for a prostitute. Whore: A Derogative term for a prostitute or loose woman.
Output: no
Question: Is there a specific name for the thick glove worn (or may be any cloth used) to touch hot dishes in the oven? For example, we wear a glove and take the dish containing baked food from the oven. It's use is to save our hand from being burnt by touching the hot dish. 
Answer: While oven mitts work, my family usually used rectangular pieces of cloth that were often also purposed as placemats to stop the tablecloth from melting/catching on fire. These are called Pot holders, though the single word "potholders" is also used on shopping sites. They also come in silicone!.
Output: no
Question: I sometimes see the term "critical but stable" in the news. It is often used to describe someone who has been very seriously injured. For example (15 December 2019): "[A police officer] said the man who had been shot was in a "critical but stable " condition in hospital." I understand that "critically ill" means that life is in danger. Similarly "stable" is the opposite. Quotes from www.lexico.com critically To an extreme degree with a risk of death. 'two critically wounded people died in hospital'. 'critically ill patients who were awaiting surgery' stable (of a patient or their medical condition) not deteriorating in health after an injury or operation. 'he is now in a stable condition in hospital' What does "critical but stable" really mean? 
Answer: Trying to find a meaning in these words by following a definition is the wrong approach, as critical but stable is a kind of euphemism. Much in the same way as the wording "according to circumstances" is, depending on how it's being said, either a polite way of saying: "I have no idea!", or "I'm not going to tell you!". Most certainly, every patient's condition is "according to circumstances" (whatever the circumstances may be!), so basically saying that is nothing but saying: "Bugger off!", only more polite, and less troubling for people who are emotinally involved. Because after all, if the situation is good according to circumstances, that's quite positive, is it not! Similarly, when you say "critical", then that means as much as "that doesn't look good, I expect the person may die". You do not say that to either relatives or in public. You do not say that to, or nearby, the patient (awake or unconcious) either. Never, not ever. The consequences of saying such a thing may be terrible. Thus, when you are saying such a thing, you add "but stable" which in reality means nothing more but "we're currently not desperately trying to stop this bleeding, and we're currently not reanimating". But still, although the word "stable" has absolutely no meaning in terms of "condition will not change" (or even "condition will not change to the worse"), and usually people know very well that it is a kind of "lie", it is still very much appeasing the perceived situation for people directly involved.
Output: no
Question: "Jealousy" contains most of the vowels but lacks 'i'. Is there a word in the English language that contains every vowel (and preferably 'y')? 
Answer: Is there a word that contains all vowels and the letter Y? Unquestionably.
Output: no
Question: Is there a term for a word that means itself? For example the word word means itself and is a word. 
Answer: From Wikipedia, emphasis mine: An autological word (also called homological word or autonym) is a word that expresses a property that it also possesses (e.g. the word "short" is short, "noun" is a noun, "English" is English, "pentasyllabic" has five syllables, "word" is a word, "sesquipedalian" is a long word, "adjectival" is adjectival; see Wiktionary for a partial list).
Output: yes
Question: For example, my friend's anniversary is on 3rd August (03/08/2016-dd/mm/yyyy). If I interchange the Month and Day digit and write 08/03/2016 meaning 8th March, is there any special word for this kind of date in English? Like 'Reverse Date' or something. Ignoring the dates after 12th. Editing: I am not confused about date formats here. Think it like, If I want to wish my friend on 8th of March (instead of 3rd August), what should I say him? Like: 'Happy Reversed Anniversary'!? 
Answer: Middle-endian date format appears to be the technical term, more commonly known as the US date format, see also Ngram: Despite the variety of date formats used around world, the US is the only country to use the mm/dd/yy format. This condition is diagnosed as middle-endianness. Seriously. It comes from computer science where bytes are arranged according to their size. If the order has larger ones at the front, it's known as big-endian and so too are dates formatted with the years first (see the likes of China and Mongolia in the map). (www.theguardian.com).
Output: no
Question: A few days ago, a friend and I were discussing how every "rule" of English spelling or pronunciation has an exception, and every exception has an exception as well. Then I brought up the rule of a ph cluster equaling an f sound (as in phonetic, elephant, morph, etc.) as a pronunciation rule that didn't have any exceptions I could think of. Is this a true hard-and-fast rule or does it have some exceptions as well? I'm not counting abbreviations such as pH scale. 
Answer: The exceptions come in two categories: Greek words that were originally pronounced with an "f" diphtheria, diphthong, ophthalmology, phthisis but have come to be pronounced with a "p" by no process I understand. Compound words uphold, saphead, peephole that are just a word ending in "p" run up against a word beginning with an "h". Neither of those really feel like exceptions: mispronunciations that have become accepted and two words being treated as one. Then there is aphelion. Arguably, that's a compound word and a mistake. By analogy with apogee and apastron, it should be apohelion: "apo" ("from") + "helion" ("sun"). Several people brought up "Stephen", which is often pronounced like "Steven". Eh, I think we should play with Scrabble rules: no proper names. Finally, there is an example that will really blow your minds: phthalate. The ph- is silent.
Output: yes
Question: Possible Duplicate: Is a company always plural, or are small companies singular? When I'm referring to a group of multiple things, should it be considered singular or plural for the purposes of applying a verb to it? For example, which is correct in the examples below? A sentence is a group of words that is followed by a period. A sentence is a group of words that are followed by a period. The group of people constitutes a jury. The group of people constitute a jury. A group of crows is called a 'murder'. A group of crows are called a 'murder'. My instinct is that it depends on whether the verb is referncing the group itself or the members of the group directly, but is that right? 
Answer: According to the OALD, group can actually serve as either a plural or singular noun. The category they give is "countable + singular or plural verb". So, an example of correct use is: A group of us is/are going to the theatre this evening. For any of your examples, both is and are can be used. I think the difference between them is as you say: use is when you are referring to the group, and use are when you are referring to the members of a given group. This page on when to use "group" as plural from Washington State University backs this up, saying: When the group is being considered as a whole, it can be treated as a single entity: "the group was ready to go on stage." But when the individuality of its members is being emphasized, "group" is plural: "the group were in disagreement about where to go for dinner." To analyze your given examples, here are some notes: A sentence is a group of words that is followed by a period. Use this form if you're talking about the group itself. That is, a sentence is a group of words followed by a period. A sentence is a group of words that are followed by a period. This implies that "This. Is. A. Sentence" is a sentence. The group of people constitutes a jury. The group of people constitute a jury. This would be more correct, since you are describing the nature of the group. A group of crows is called a 'murder'. This would be correct, since you're again describing an entire group. A group of crows are called a 'murder'.
Output: yes
Question: How does one correctly apply "in which", "of which", "at which", "to which", etc.? I'm confused with which one to apply when constructing sentences around these. 
Answer: The trick to knowing how to use; of which, at which, in which, to which, from which is to analyse the prepositional phrases, phrasal verbs, verbs and prepositions: He /spoke of/ war and peace and many other topics that day. The topic /of which he spoke/ was complex. The verb here that means to speak about a topic is /to speak/ of a topic/: to mention The party /at which/ he spoke/ was noisy. Phrase: A party is held /at a place/. It is implied. The situation /in which/ we found ourselves was dire. Phrase: /to find oneself /in a situation. The bonds /from which/ we broke free were tight. phrase: to /break free/ from bonds. The town /to which/we were driving was 50 ks away. phrase: to /drive/ to a place. Summary (and not a complete answer but a general one): The preposition depends on the verb that takes a preposition, a phrasal verb that includes a preposition, or it depends on the prepositional phrase used. Also, there are many other prepositions that can be paired with which: under, during, about, over, etc.
Output: yes
Question: I often hear US citizens say something like this: <Some phrases>. Period. What does period mean when it appears in a sentence by itself in this type of situation? 
Answer: Period at the end of the sentence means, the things said in the sentence are definite and no change is allowed. For example, "I want the document without any errors, period" meaning that there should not be any errors in the document.
Output: no
Question: Possible Duplicate: When do I use "I" instead of "me?" A friend of mine asked me for advice about an e-mail he was writing. There was a sentence like this: I and my partners we are interested in investing in your product. I figured it was wrong, so I suggested: I and my partners are interested in investing in your product. This looks grammatical to me but sounds strange. Also, I have seen a lot of people writing this: Me and my partners we are interested in investing in your product. which I believe is not grammatical. So, which one of the options above is correct? Also, what would be a better choice of words? 
Answer: "I and someone are interested" is grammatically correct. It is the convention in English that when you list several people including yourself, you put yourself last, so you really should say "Someone and I are interested." "Someone and I" is the subject of the sentence, so you should use the subjective case "I" rather than the objective "me". "Someone and I" clearly means two people, so you should use "are" and not "is". If it was "Someone or I ..." then you would use "is", because only one person is interested, either "someone" or "I". It is not uncommon to hear people say "Me and someone are ...", but this is wrong because it's the wrong case. When an educated person hears "Me and Billy is going to the ball game", he immediately thinks this is either a child or a very uneducated person speaking. "I and someone we ..." is incorrect because it is redundant. "We" is simply another way of saying "I and someone". It adds no new information to the sentence, and so there is no reason to include it. You can't just string together alternative ways of expressing the same idea: If you really need it for clarity or emphasis, you have to surround it with some additional words, like a "that is", or sometimes just punctuation that show its purpose in the sentence. You could say, "We, that is, Bob and I, are interested ..." All that said, "I and someone" or "Someone and I" sounds strange to me, and I suspect most English speakers, because it is an unusual use of the word "someone". When "someone" is used in a list with identifiers of other people, we usually say "someone else". Like, "Bob and someone else are interested ..." rather than "Bob and someone are interested ..." (I have no idea why this is so; it's just the convention.) "Someone" without "else" is normally only used when it's the only person: "Someone is interesteed ...".
Output: yes
Question: I'm a little bit confused with the following phrase. I was reading an article about concurrency in Java and there was a sentence saying: It is worth noting that both unlockRead() and unlockWrite() calls notifyAll() rather than notify(). This phrase seemed quite strange to me. What does it mean? 
Answer: "It is worth noting that" simply means "here's something, which you should remember:" or "here's something you should pay attention to:" or "here's something that is worth reading and remembering:" It's that simple. Regarding (1), there is no connection at all to "apropos" or "besides..." Regarding (2), it always means exactly the same thing. It simply means "Here's an interesting point:" (There is utterly no connection in any way to "useless" or "costs nothing".) It is worth noting that, the ELL site exists for basic questions about the meanings of phrases.
Output: yes
Question: Possible Duplicate: What is the correct possessive for nouns ending in s? Before you vote to close as a duplicate, note that these two questions deal with similar issues to this, but none of them address all three criteria of this question: The singular already ends with an s. I am dealing with multiple of the thing. I want the possessive of all of them in general. The singular is class, and the plural is classes. The singular possessive is class's (as addressed here). What is the plural possessive? Is it classes's, or classes'? 
Answer: It is classes', which sounds the same as the singular class's. I would have thought this was a general rule for plural nouns ending -s', -es' or -ies'.
Output: yes
Question: If I were to try to achieve something you could say I "had a go". If I tried it multiple times, how would I write that down? I had many goes or I had many go's or I had many gos 
Answer: Not what the OP intended... The noun go (a Japanese board game) has the English plural gos. Perhaps one could even say "I had a go" with this meaning.
Output: no
Question: My first language is Spanish. In Spanish, we have a phrase to indicate when someone has said something so obvious or basic that everyone knows and so there's no need to say it. Is kind of sarcasm. Not really offensive, but you are saying the other party has said a dumb thing. Felicitaciones, inventaste el agua tibia. Congratulations, you invented warm water. The other day, I wanted to reply to a comment in a chat, but was not sure if that would have had the same impact/meaning in English as it has in Spanish. Aditional Info: In my case we were talking about an Android Game "Summoner Wars", where you collect monsters and runes, then equip the better runes to mosters to make them stronger. You usually have to repeat same level multiple times, so as your monster get stronger you finish each level faster. And the comment was: "You need equip stronger runes to reduce your time". and I was thinking Yes, you just invented the warm water. 
Answer: Queen Anne is dead - a sarcastic response to someone who tells an old news. "Its so hot in India" -Queen Anne is dead! This question has been asked before by a user. Below is the link- Where does the idiom "Queen Anne is dead!" come from?.
Output: no
Question: So basically, I know the name for both sides of a coin, yet not the coin itself. In other words, when you refer to a coin, you don't want to say 'this object with one side heads, and the other tails', you would want to say 'this coin'. What I want is a general term to refer to two ideas, that are the absolute opposite to each other. I can't really use the word 'concept', or 'idea', because such words are already assigned to the very concepts/ideas themselves. 
Answer: Dichotomy. =] More generally, not limited to two ideas or opposing ones. Abstract concept or meta concept. In programming, we usually refer to it as a class, parent class, or abstract. Note that Abstract concept or meta concept can refer to something with more than two species, and to things that aren't limited to opposing species either. It's even more general / abstract ;).
Output: no
Question: It is said that XLAT is an abbr of translate. But I don't understand how come it ends up like that? There is no site on internet would explain it but they're all agree that XLAT is shorten of translate. I can get that LAT is in the end part of translate (LATe) but what about the X? 
Answer: 'Trans' is a prefix meaning 'cross', as in 'Trans-siberian Express' or 'Trans-continental railway'. X is used as an abbreviation of 'cross', thanks to its resemblance to a cross, and despite the shift in meanings of 'cross'. So XLATE or XLAT is used as an abbreviate of 'translate'. XFER is similarly used as an abbreviation of transfer.
Output: yes
Question: As generally agreed and as extensively discussed in this question, "an" should be used in place of the more common "a" where the following word begins with a vowel sound. I have just encountered for the first time an instance of the phrasing an mule in the book Why Chemical Reactions Happen (James Keeler and Peter Wothers, Oxford University Press, 2003). (This book is not mine. I was sitting opposite a friend when the friend mentioned the unusual phrasing.) This phrasing appears to contradict the rule discussed above, since "mule" is, as far as I am aware, pronounced /mjul/ (see Wiktionary). Here is the context. The author is using an analogy to explain a chemistry concept (the italics are not mine, but the bold emphasis is): A useful analogy here is that of an mule, which we get by crossing a horse with a donkey. To describe an mule as a horse or a donkey would be inaccurate and it certainly does not interconvert rapidly between the two! Rather we need to recognize that although an mule has parts that are reminiscent of a horse and parts that a reminiscent of a donkey, it is something altogether different. Looking for other examples online, I have managed to find one on Wikipedia's List of Siege engines. Discussing a Siege engine, the Scorpio: Similar to the ballista, but smaller. Was sometimes mounted on an mule-drawn cart. Other examples are difficult to find, but here's one from a user-posted question on Answers.com (referring, notably, to a kind of deer rather than the animal, a mule): Is an mule deer an omnivore? No. Mule deer are herbivores. ... What is going on? Is there an irregular pronunication of "mule" of which I am not aware? Is this some strange language quirk, some archaic spelling that I am encountering for the first time? 
Answer: It's just a typo, and it probably originally said "an ass". That would have been changed because it's incorrect (an ass is a donkey, not a horsedonkey cross) and, even if it were correct, the fact that ass means well, you know, ass, might be distracting enough to make it worth changing. Another source of this kind of typo is when an adjective has been added or removed and the article hasn't been updated (e.g., "an elephant" becoming "an big elephant" or "an amazing coincidence" becoming "an coincidence"). That's presumably not happened in this particular text, since there are several instances of "an mule".
Output: no
Question: My company is developing smart eyewear and I'm looking for a short word to describe the users of our smartglasses for English documents. The ideal wording would be understandable by British, US, and international audiences. It's primarily intended for internal usage, product specification, and exchanges with partners. It doesn't need to be formal; it can be some mild slang instead as long as it's generally friendly. We want to be able to use it openly in user documentation. It can't simply be 'users', because we also have other kinds of 'users' of our products who won't necessarily be using the smartglasses. So far I like the sound of 'speckies' or 'speccies' found in online dictionaries. Do they sound appropriate to you or would you have anything else to suggest? 
Answer: bespectacled wearing eyeglasses ~ dictionary.com In a sentence: Bill Gates, Woody Allen, John Lennon, Gandhi and Steve Jobs are known as famous, bespectacled men.
Output: yes
Question: I need some information from person A. Person A is not willing to give it to me. So instead of asking directly I keep asking secondary questions hoping that he may say something that might (partially) hint me the information I need. I may even ask other people. Or keep asking so many times that person A would have had it and just told me because he can't stand my questions any more. It's like extorting, but without using threats or violence, but cunning and perseverance. What word am I looking for? Although he refused to tell me where he got the money from, I persevered and finally <???> the information from him. 
Answer: "Dig up" can work here: trans. To take or get out of the ground, etc., by digging or excavating; to exhume, disinter, unearth. Also fig. to obtain, find, search out "Although he refused to tell me where he got the money from, I persevered and finally dug up the information.".
Output: no
Question: The nuns in the 1965 movie "The Sound of Music" are singing about Maria, who is difficult to deal with: How do you solve a problem like Maria? Being non-native (and only seeing a still frame of the scene) I thought it meant "How does Maria solve problems?". Somewhat similar to "What would Jesus do?". Can "solve a problem like [someone]" also be understood in this way? Edits: I am aware of the context. It would be silly to think the singing nuns hold up Maria (Julie Andrews) as a role model. I checked my Quirk/Greenbaum grammar but have trouble finding anything conclusive concerning this usage of [like] and its validity. I do have to admit, that I didn't look very thoroughly. I am a bit like Maria, in this way. 
Answer: You're right: "How do you solve a problem like Maria?" is syntactically ambiguous. The phrase "like Maria" can modify either a preceding noun phrase ("a problem") or a preceding verb phrase ("solve a problem"). Both of these usages are recognized as valid by traditional prescriptive grammars (Fowler 1926 describes "He talks like an expert" as an "unexceptionable" usage of like, where "like is equivalent to a prepositional adverb"p. 325 in republished 2009 edition). Prescriptive grammars have traditionally condemned a third use of like, the use "as a conjunction" where it is followed by a clause (e.g. "like Maria does") rather than by a noun phrase. However, as the comments point out, that construction would allow you to express "How do you solve problems the way that Maria solves problems" without ambiguity. Many modern linguists analyze like as a preposition when it takes a bare noun phrase like "Maria" as its complement (although like is not always a preposition, and even when it is, it doesn't always behave exactly the same way as other prepositions). The same kind of ambiguity is seen with many prepositional phrases, as illustrated by the joke "One morning, I shot an elephant in my pajamas. How he got in my pajamas, I don't know," which relies on this ambiguity. You can see further examples and discussion in the answers to Does "I am eating vegan cheese in my underpants" really imply that the vegan cheese is inside my underpants? (the "shot an elephant in my pajamas" joke is mentioned in JoeTaxpayer's answer there).
Output: yes
Question: What's the verb for "to drink small amounts of drink" (especially to enjoy it as slowly and long as possibly)? What's the drinking equivalent of "nibble"? 
Answer: To sip conveys the idea: to drink, taking only a very small amount at a time: This tea is very hot, so sip it carefully. She slowly sipped (at) her wine. Cambridge Dictionary.
Output: no
Question: Is there a way to indicate that somebody is your girlfriend without using the possessive term my? I think saying She/He is my partner/other half is OK for married people, but it doesn't feel right for girlfriends and boyfriends. 
Answer: There is nothing wrong with using my. Saying my medical appointment does not mean the medical appointment belongs to me, but just that it is connected to me in some way. Stick to my for there is no alternative which expresses the idea succinctly.
Output: yes
Question: Any situation, any time; this person has always something negative to say about it. It should be a noun or an adjective to describe a person who is a damp cloud walking over every sunshine situations at the cubicle, hoping to drench other people with his miserable comments. I considered "sourpuss" but would prefer something more important sounding, like "misogynist." 
Answer: My favorite of all time comes from a Saturday Night Live character: Debbie Downer. Ever since, when someone's hellbent on constantly reporting about the sucky side of everything, you will often hear someone say to them, "Quit being such a Debbie Downer.".
Output: no
Question: For example, a computer security expert can be an expert and making a basic mistake, perhaps unrelated to his personality but highly relevant to his field of expertise and a mistake that just about anybody could do but just because he is a security expert he especially should not have done it. I don't mean stupid mistake or stupid error but I mean contradictory and almost similar to a double-standard. Jeff teaches English but he couldn't spell "occurrence". Or for example George is a professional Microsoft Windows programmer but he doesn't know what alt+tab does. Or Henry is a surgeon but he cut himself shaving. I don't necessarily mean something like a police officer who himself is corrupt or a judge who is corrupt because those are not accidents or mistakes but deliberate. Albert Einstein was a genius but couldn't remember his own address and entered the wrong house when going home. (Perhaps the above Einstein example is not a great example because scientist could be absent-minded.) I mean more like actually mistakenly missing the basics of your own speciality or making a human error that anybody else could do except you because you are supposed to be the specialist. I think the classic example could be Bill Gates trying to show how good Microsoft Windows is and it crashes. Or a news anchor, who should be a specialist in not making a word mistake, actually makes a word mistake. Or a judge or an attorney, who should be experts in law and rights, wouldn't know something trivial about law and right e.g. unknowingly about that blackmailing is a crime. I almost made such a mistake myself. I was an IT specialist and computer technician at a client's office and their boss was teaching himself the basics of programming and asking me about something basic. I actually got it right but I was not completely certain about something basic while actually being able to solve complicated and advanced problems for them. 
Answer: Noob error is a slangy option in the family of phrases that includes "rookie mistake" and "schoolboy error". I also suggest howler, which means "a conspicuously stupid error", but which in the context of an expert or professional would convey your intended meaning.
Output: no
Question: There is a concept in computer science which deals with how to demonstrate negative binary numbers. Two methods for achieving this goal are ones' complement and two's complement. Since I got acquainted with these methods, this question never stops coming to my mind that why the apostrophe is placed differently in ones' vs two's? I also saw many articles using one's instead. Even Google suggests that I might be mistaken! So I want to resolve this issue once and for all. Is it a stylistic preference? What causes this difference? And please provide more examples of similar usage. 
Answer: Donald Knuth, that doyen of computer science, says in Art of Computer Programming, Vol 2.: Detail-oriented readers and copy-editors should notice the position of the apostrophe in terms like "two's complement" and "ones' complement": a two's complement number is complemented with respect to a single power of 2, whereas a ones' complement number is complemented with respect to a long sequence of 1s. Indeed, there is also a twos' complement notation, which has radix 3 and complementation with respect to (2...22) (base 3).
Output: yes
Question: When you are writing about the seasons, should you capitalize their names? For example, would you say: I love the colors of the leaves in Autumn. Or should you say: I love the colors of the leaves in autumn. 
Answer: The names of seasons should be left uncapitalized. However capitalization may be used to achieve a poetic effect.
Output: yes
Question: As a programmer I use the word Authentication and the word Authorisation in my code. I'd like to find nice abbreviations or alternative words for each of them that are not ambiguous and has reasonably large 'psychological distance' between. i.e. they don't look too similar i.e 'Auth' is not OK because it is ambiguous. At the moment I have just removed some letters Authtictn Authristn Any suggestions? 
Answer: I've worked with IETF people and developers who spend a lot of time on Apache, who tend to use: AuthN - Authentication AuthZ - Authorization You'll find these abbreviations in a lot of IETF technical documents. Yes, I know British spelling prefers s over z (authorisation).
Output: yes
Question: I am looking for a derogatory term that can be used to describe a novice soldier/conscript who is awful at army-stuff. Something like cannon fodder but it should stress the incompetence of the described person, but it can't be a vulgarism. It is meant to be a unit name for a game set in a fantasy-medieval setting. 
Answer: The appropriate word is gomer. Gomer: military slang. An inept or stupid colleague, especially a trainee.
Output: yes
Question: This year there were: many more people much more people Alternatively: many fewer people much fewer people Which is considered better English? 
Answer: Both much and many can be used, but which is appropriate depends on whether the noun they're referring to is countable or not. With countable nouns, use many more or many fewer: I had many more bananas than Tom. I had many fewer nickels than Alice. With uncountable nouns, use much more or much less How much more fiber does a banana have than an apple? How much less water does this process use?.
Output: yes
Question: Is there a word to describe an object that excels in form and function? I am trying to avoid very general words like great, superb or excellent. 
Answer: Could it be described as an elegant solution or an engineering marvel?.
Output: yes
Question: Do the English have an ancient (obsolete) verb for the action of the book opening? For example, in Russian we say otkrit' (open the book), but in the Old slavonic the verb razognuti (to unbend the book) was used. 
Answer: This is a very interesting question. There may not be an old word in English that does what you describe, but it is important to note that the English word "open" relative to a book meant something different in earlier times. To open a book now usually means to part or spread the cover and the pages into a position so you can read the pages contained in the book. However, books used to be made by folding sheets of paper larger than the page size and they would be sold without trimming the edges, so when you got your new book, it would be "unopened" meaning that you couldn't turn the pages. You had to "open" the book with a dull knife (like a letter opener) by ripping along the folds. (This is why some books have ragged edges of the text block, to evoke the memory of those ripped page edges.) The OED has e. transitive. To cut open the leaves of (a book) when they have been left joined along an edge during the making; to cut open (the leaves) of such a book. You will find old books described (by knowledgable book dealers) as "unopened". This correctly means that the folded sheets are un-ripped; it doesn't mean that no-one has ever spread the covers and looked inside.
Output: yes
Question: Opening doors, offering to pay the tab, helping with a coat or a light of the smoke: we may describe these acts of a man to be gentlemanly. In a word, how may we describe these acts of any person? 
Answer: It's generally considered informal (and possibly low-register) but classy is a non-gendered term that can convey a similar constellation of style, manners and sophistication to the word gentlemanly.
Output: no
Question: For example In Sim Lim Square cheat cases, a person paid $1k for iPhone insurance. He "agreed" to buy it because the price was not clearly written. In some restaurants, prices are not written clearly and people can then be charged exorbitant prices. Insurance costs can vary by up to 100 times because the cost is simply not written clearly. Many politicians use deceptive language. Also, they tend to tell only the benefits without telling the negatives. Say you are a scientist. You have 10 studies supporting your theory and 90 studies showing you are wrong. You only quote the 10 studies to people that can't expect. All of these are deceptions that would make people choose really really "bad deals". Is there a word to describe such deceptions? Lying? Sophism? Fraud? Scam? Pull a fast one? What? 
Answer: Mislead/misleading One can be misled into thinking something, even if no lies are involved. Doesn't necessarily rule out lying though. The restaurant misled its customers by hiding information about extra charges.
Output: yes
Question: In a few days, I have to do a class presentation project about the 1920s Harlem Renaissance. I want to say that the movement's original name was the "New Negro Movement," but I'm not sure if that's okay. I'm white, and I really don't want to offend anybody in my class. Is it all right to say this word in context? Or, should I ignore its original name, and only refer to it as the Harlem Renaissance? 
Answer: In a historical or literary context, in my experience you can always use "negro," "nigger," etc. Try to avoid it if possible of course, but if it comes down to using the word or awkwardly skirting around it, always choose the former. For example, in a literary paper, don't do this: "Miss Watson's big [N-WORD], named Jim, was setting in the kitchen door; we could see him pretty clear, because there was a light behind him." (Twain 58) And in the case of your presentation, you are of course allowed to say "New Negro Movement." Just note that it is a term that some people may find offensive, so be mature about it. Note the first part, "in a historical or literary context." This does NOT give the excuse to throw the N-word around.
Output: no
Question: Is there a word for reverse homesickness? Let's say, if you visit a place, and you like it so much, you don't want to leave. 
Answer: The opposite of homesick is "Wanderlust" when you have a big desire for traveling or going to a journey and exploring the world. However there was an interesting comment in a forum about the opposite of homesickness: It's still homesick. "Boy, I am homesick!" "But you live at home." "Yeah, and I'm sick of it!" hope it helps.
Output: yes
Question: Just to clarify, I'm not talking about the Lush product of the same name. In Australia, the washing up fairy is a mythical creature. People leave their dishes unwashed overnight, and lo and behold, the next morning the dishes are clean thanks to the washing up fairy. Sadly, she (I assume it's a she) is more often noted in her absence than her presence. As in "The washing up fairy didn't come, I'll have to do the dishes now." An example of her being mentioned: Her theory is simple we must replace the behaviours we don't want with those we do. For example, leaving dirty dishes on the kitchen bench for the washing-up fairy to tidy should be replaced with loading the dirty dishes in the dishwasher. Her existence has been documented neither by Wiktionary nor Urban Dictionary. Is her distribution limited to Australia, and presumably New Zealand, plus the households of those who have moved from these countries? 
Answer: In the U.S. the phrase for cleaning the dishes after a meal is to wash the dishes (generically, to wash dishes). The action nominalization is dishwashing (with or without hyphen or space) in either case. One can say wash up instead of wash the dishes, in context, but wash up in the U.S. is just one more phrasal verb and does not have the specific connotation it does in the UK (rather like fry up, which in the US just means to fry things until they're done, and is never nominalized as a fry-up). Wash up in the U.S. can also mean to wash oneself (short of a full bath or shower), or to wash one's hands preparatory to a meal; it can form the action nominalization a wash-up, but this is more likely to refer to handwashing than dishwashing. As to fairies in the U.S, I am personally a firm devotee of the Parking Fairy, and, influenced by Fairiology as presented in Pratchett's Hogfather, I have recently come to discern the importance of the Traffic Fairy in our lives; many U.S. children believe in the Tooth Fairy; and Jim McCawley used to say, of some people, that "the Mind Fairy must have come and left a quarter under their pillow". So, while most Americans will understand the washing up fairy as it's intended to be understood, if they hear it -- particularly if it's delivered in a non-American accent -- Americans don't normally use that phrase.
Output: no
Question: There is a particular taste that I could never quite translate in English. It is not bitter, although it sometimes occurs with it. The best example is eating a raw quince fruit. The mouth and tongue get a sort of dry feeling. Similar taste can be experienced with some persimmon fruit, and unripe plums. I know the word in French (apre) and Bulgarian (). Google translates these as rough, but that somehow seems unlikely. Any ideas? 
Answer: I think you may be describing the sense one also often gets from grape juice, which is a dry sensation throughout the mouth, even though it's full of liquid. That flavor and taste is called "sec." Sec is another way to say medium dry, un-sweet and is borrowed into gastronomy from wine world.
Output: no
Question: I am referring to someone who makes people 'buy' what he says and gets things done by them through nothing but clever speech something one can describe as crafty or beguiling, but not fraudulent. I pondered over con man and con artist for a while but those terms seem to hold a hint of crime, so those terms won't fit in. I am wondering if there is a more suitable phrase or word. 
Answer: Not quite a single word, but silver tongued probably fits.
Output: yes
Question: I am writing a resume. I want to specify that I started my education in 2009 and as of now I am at the 4th grade (in other words, still learning), so how should I specify that in resume: 2009 - present 2009 till now Any suggestions? 
Answer: On resumes, the most common way to indicate that a period is ongoing is either 2009 present or 2009 to present The en dash is the preferred punctuation. Many word processors replace a double hyphen with an en dash once the next word is typed.
Output: yes
Question: I have several expenses and incomes in the application I'm currently coding. What can I call an entity like that, that is either positive (income) or (negative)? It should be related to money, if possible. Edit: Not sure if I expressed myself clearly. I'm looking for a word like "money-transfer", "stream" or "money that goes over the table" (no matter which direction). A word that fits in a financial context. 
Answer: The term is Asset. In the accounting equation Assets = Liabilities + Equityif an asset account increases (a debit), then either another asset account must decrease (a credit), or a liability or equity account must increase (a credit). The fact that so many people would provide so many different wrong answers, and that other people would give those poor answers votes, on a subject that is as old is business worries me about the structure of this whole stackexchange system. Maybe we should ask an account what the term is.
Output: no
Question: Possible Duplicate: Capitalization for a bullet list Let's say I have a bullet point list e.g: Point 1. Point 2. Point 3. Notice I have put a capital letter for the starting letter of every bullet point and a full stop at the end. Is this the correct way to do it? If not, what is the correct way to do it? Do I put a capital letter and no full stop, or, the other way around, a full stop and no capital letter? Alternatively, do I not put a capital letter or a full stop? Is it only necessary to put a capital letter on the first bullet point and full stop on the last bullet point? For reference, I'm from the UK so British-English grammar would apply. 
Answer: I found a site quoting the Chicago Manual of Style. I don't have the style manual handy, but this advice mirrors what I know from my personal experience. "A vertical list is best introduced by a complete grammatical sentence, followed by a colon. Items carry no closing punctuation unless they consist of complete sentences. If the items are numbered, a period follows the numeral and each item begins with a capital letter. To avoid long, skinny lists, short items may be arranged in two or more columns. If items run over a line, the second and subsequent lines are usually indented." CMOS (6.127-28) So if you're just listing points you would do: point 1 point 2 point 3 (it is only necessary to capitalize points if they are "longer phrases" or follow a numbered list.) If you were describing them, it might be: This is something about point 1. This is something about point 2. This is something about point 3. Edit: Adding this to answer Ryan's question in the comment. Here is an example of combining both the enumeration of the items and the description, using one of the examples from the site I linked: A computer lab needs various equipment: Computers - Obviously a key component of a computer lab. Desks - You need somewhere to put the computers. Chairs - People need someplace to sit. etc.
Output: yes
Question: E.g. is short for exempli gratia, and is in common use to introduce an example within a sentence. Submit a sample of academic writing, e.g., a dissertation chapter. However, some authors use ex. or ex: (short for "example") for the same purpose, and this form is listed in some authorities like the Wiktionary. Submit a sample of academic writing, ex: a dissertation chapter. I know they both roughly mean "example", but which one should I use, and when? Are there connotations associated with one or the other? This question has been asked elsewhere, and this very answer comes up when you ask Google about the difference. It would be good to get an EL&U answer for it. 
Answer: E.g. is short for exempli gratia and stands for "for example". Ex., if used to mean the same, is incorrect. Mostly ex. is used as short for exercise and not "for example".
Output: yes
Question: Possible Duplicate: When is "L" doubled? If I am using the word model in the context of financial models and the UK, then which of these words should I use? Also, are there any key difference in the meanings of the two? 
Answer: There is no difference in meaning. The single-L spelling is more common in the United States; the double-L spelling is more common in the United Kingdom, Australia, South Africa and New Zealand. I don't know which is more common in other countries.
Output: yes
Question: The word second can refer to ordinal #2 (that which comes after first), or a unit of time, 1/60 of a minute. Ordinarily you might think that this is just a coincidence, but in Spanish, the word segundo also means both a second (of time) and ordinal #2, which suggests that there's some actual link between the two meanings somewhere. So, why is there a "second" of time but not a "first"? 
Answer: The English word minute in the time sense (and the various similar European words) came from Latin 'pars minuta prima' or 'first small part'; when it became necessary to subdivide even further, the obvious term was 'pars minuta secunda' which became second and its various cognates. (Best explained in Etymonline.).
Output: yes
Question: The B strings tuned w/ low E 7th fret harmonic-(6th string,7th fret). 
Answer: The shorthand w/ is used to mean with. 2 pieces toast w/ gravy Is a shorter way of writing "Two pieces of toast with gravy." The B strings tuned w/ low E 7th fret harmonic-(6th string,7th fret). means "The B strings tuned with low E, 7th fret harmonic . . ." Edited to add: As Denis de Bernardy correctly notes in the comment below, w/o means the opposite: without.
Output: yes
Question: Possible Duplicate: What is the correct way to pluralize an acronym? What's the plural form of "SMS" (if X), like: I'm concerned, I sent him over a million X but got no response. I usually use text message to get rid of that situation. 
Answer: The common way to pluralize acronyms is to add a lowercase S, so it would be SMSs. But SMS (short message service) is not usually used like that. SMS is the service you use to send text messages. SMS can also be used to talk about a feature-set ("It's got unlimited SMS."), or a technology ("This tablet supports SMS."). Both text (sometimes abbreviated txt) and text message are used. I'm concerned. I sent him over a million texts, but got no response. or I'm concerned. I sent him over a million text messages, but got no response. Google Ngram seems to support this:.
Output: yes
Question: I've found this phrase here on a recent BBC report: "...the mare in the video died after suffering a cardiac arrest on a gallops in April 2016." The same article has: "A video on social media shows James mount the animal at a gallops while some present can be heard laughing." (emphasis mine) It's a bit of a sad story, but I want to know what "a gallops" is. Google Ngrams has some indication that it might be a phrase rather than just a typo, and also that it might be rising in popularity. TheFreeDictionary redirects me to gallop. I know what "a gallop" is. It's the plural noun ("a gallops") that I have never heard used before. It feels like some kind of horse racing meet. Any formal (or informal) definition that fits this word? Is it short for something? 
Answer: This appears to be a specialized meaning, uncommon outside of the equestrian world. The OED gives a sense as 1c. A track designed or suited for the galloping or exercising of horses. 1848 A. Trollope Kellys & O'Kellys II. ii. 45: They've proper gallops there, which we haven't.
Output: no