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Why do eleven and twelve get unique words and not end in -teen? Why don't these words fit the pattern of thirteen through nineteen? [Answer to 1] A remarkably thorough answer to (1) appears at Why do eleven and twelve get unique words and not end in "-teen"?
Why is c*nt so much more derogatory in the US than the UK? 5 That's a very good question It certainly is offensive here in the US, and I'm not sure why it's considered so much worse than other "Anglo-Saxon" words I've used all of the other ones on occasion But in 52 years, I've used "cunt" anatomically only a handful of times, and I can't recall ever using it as a slang reference for a woman
Why is the show called Stranger Things instead of Strange Things? Why is something only the show creators would know; captaingabbeh has provided that answer There is also a play on words; the saying stranger things have happened refers to events, whereas the show includes stranger things which are very much physical
Why does gasoline have the word gas in it, if its never gaseous? "The root gas doesn't necessarily mean gaseous " -- Yes, it does mean something gaseous (gaseous being derived from gas) The definition quoted, from the OED, is a subdefinition of gas for a specific type of gas, as can be seen in the definition itself, which defines it directly in terms of "gas" -- that is, the earlier established general meaning of gas, an aeriform fluid (a gaseous fluid