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  2. List of words having different meanings in American and ...

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    a type of secondary school, normally a selective state funded school elementary school (less common today) grill: to cook directly under a dry heat source (US: broil) to question intensely (informal). to interrogate. to cook over a gas or coal fire (UK and US: barbecue) a flat cooking surface a restaurant (freq. as "bar and grill")

  3. 10 Genius Phrases To Use Instead of 'I'm Busy ... - AOL

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    "This has become a better way to let someone know you don't have the capacity or capability to take something extra on right now," Dr. Schiff says. 2. "I cannot right now, but I will set aside ...

  4. List of commonly misused English words - Wikipedia

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    Non-standard: After finding the suspected bomb, Pennsylvania state police were called in to diffuse it. [45] desert and dessert. As a verb, desert means to abandon. As a noun, desert is a barren or uninhabited place; an older meaning of the word is "what one deserves", as in the idiom just deserts. A dessert is the last course of a meal.

  5. Glossary of British terms not widely used in the United States

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    Also called a stay-back or stoppy-back in Northern England. (US: may refer to a large and highly chaperoned "sleep over" at a church, school, etc.) lodger * tenant renting a room rather than an entire property; typically lives with the renter and his/her family lollipop man / woman / lady a school crossing guard who uses a circular stop sign ...

  6. Homework - Wikipedia

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    However, school teachers commonly assign less homework to the students who need it most, and more homework to the students who are performing well. [9] In past centuries, homework was a cause of academic failure: when school attendance was optional, students would drop out of school entirely if they were unable to keep up with the homework ...

  7. Why are people so bad at texting? The psychology behind bad ...

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    These so-called "bad texters" often drive those who do enjoy texting as a means of communication crazy — mostly because, when someone doesn't respond to texts the way we would, we're unsure ...

  8. How Atlanta became known as ‘the city too busy to hate’ - AOL

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    When Former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations and Former Atlanta Mayor Andrew Young sat down with Yahoo Finance’s Editor-in-Chief Andy Serwer, they discussed how Atlanta has grown and ...

  9. Category:School terminology - Wikipedia

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