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WHAT’S THE DIFFERENCE between button mushrooms, the larger chestnut mushrooms and the much bigger portobello mushrooms?

Nothing. They’re all the same mushroom, at different stages of their growth.

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Word origins

Port and starboard

Brass monkeys

Of pigs and cats

Political quotes

Dictionary of rhetoric

Me, me, me

Why don’t we zag zig?

Mispronounciations

The red big bus

Don’t misquote me

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If only

Updating classics

That’ll do nicely

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