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Feb 28 |
accepted | Word/phrase meaning: during debate, telling opposing party to read 1000s of pages |
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Feb 28 |
asked | Word/phrase meaning: during debate, telling opposing party to read 1000s of pages |
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Jan 21 |
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What is a good word for “best example”? the "canonical example"? |
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Jan 16 |
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Can we call something a “word” if it doesn't have a vowel? What is the second letter of the English alphabet? What letter often represents a percentage score of 80-89? What's the first letter of the words 'bee'? The word 'B' may not be acceptable in Scrabble, but it's definitely a word. 'nth' is probably the most commonly used example of a vowel-less word |
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Jan 16 |
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Can we call something a “word” if it doesn't have a vowel? In Welsh words like cwn and cwm, I would argue that w is a vowel. |
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Nov 18 |
awarded | Notable Question |
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Oct 29 |
awarded | Notable Question |
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Jul 18 |
awarded | Popular Question |
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Jul 9 |
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Why are clothes hung and men hanged? Terry Pratchett does a version of this joke, also making fun of 'drawn' and 'quartered'. |
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Jan 29 |
awarded | Popular Question |
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Dec 23 |
awarded | Yearling |
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Nov 11 |
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Word meaning “the act of intending to do nothing” Has no one mentioned "laissez-faire" (in its original French sense) yet? I sometimes refer to it as lazy/fair, because that's my opinion of its effect on the economy (lazy government = do nothing = fair). |
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Nov 6 |
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Did the word “evolution” exist before Darwinism? I thought Darwin called it "descent with modification"? |
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Oct 21 |
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How to say “I must nothing” on a t-shirt A giant Greek letter phi. |
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Oct 21 |
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Word for “all of the groups to which an item belongs”? The concept of "transitive closure" or "reachability" may apply here. |
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Sep 11 |
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Does “split” necessarily mean 50/50? I think that would be "split in halves". Since "split in two" means "split into two pieces", wouldn't "split in half" mean "split into half pieces", which doesn't quite seem correct. |
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Sep 11 |
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Does “split” necessarily mean 50/50? Actually, is 'split in half' valid or should it be 'split in two'? (snarky mathematician comment!) |
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Sep 3 |
asked | Word meaning “expressing innocous concept with offensive near-homonym” |
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May 5 |
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Largest open-source dictionary w/ brief definitions (not wiktionary) wordlist.sourceforge.net |
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Apr 7 |
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“Upper-case” is to “capital” as “lowercase” is to what? Computer geeks informally say "no caps" |
