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"Choke up chicken" (in Questions & Answers about Words) by BobHale I haven't heard the "choke up chicken" part but my Dad does say "cough it up, it might be a gold watch". "it might be a gold watch" gets over 5000 ghits. The full phrase as used by my Dad gets a mere 22 ghits.... Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > Questions & Answers about Words The cultural right (in Questions & Answers about Words) by dalehilemanCatchphrase evidently denoting a faction of the right wing defending tradition. Tens of thousands of Ghits but no defsCan anyone suggest how long this expr has been around and provide or link to a fairly authoritative def without plowing through 48,000 Ghits--Thanks all... Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > Questions & Answers about Words
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on one (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Asa Lovejoyquote:Originally posted by wordmatic:hmmm... I thought Ghits was/were some sort of southern breakfast food. (Are grits singular or plural?)It's what them Sutherners serve when they want everybody to git along: Harmony ghits. Harmony is just big,fat corn - which seems appropriate for this here... Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > Questions & Answers about Words
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Ceramist (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Richard EnglishI wonder whether "ceramicist" is actually a spelling error that has gained currency and eventual acceptance? I suspect that a similar thing is happening to "restaurateur" (3,540,000 ghits) which seems frequently to be rendered as "restauranteur" (340,000 ghits). OK, only 10% the number but... Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > Questions & Answers about Words
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Out the cut (in Questions & Answers about Words) by zmježdYes, but almost none of the ghits have anything to do with the purported meaning from UD. The ghits don't all count. You need to look through them all or figure out how to filter the other ones. This is not a job I would volunteer for.... Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > Questions & Answers about Words blowtorch rock (in Questions & Answers about Words) by dalehilemanLots of Ghits but no defs. Can anyone describe this phenomAnd would I be understood if I omitted the "rock"Thanks guys... Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > Questions & Answers about Words
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Extremis? (in Questions & Answers about Words) by zmježdIt's at least a couple of years old, looking through the 63 ghits for "in such extremis". It might be considered a kind of tmesis, a milder, generic form of expletive infixation.... Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > Questions & Answers about Words
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De-hyphening (in Questions & Answers about Words) by jerry thomasAll of us have easy access to a Corpus linguisics database. This is one of more than a million ghits for "corpus linguisics database" on Google.... Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > Questions & Answers about Words
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Blazers (in Questions & Answers about Words) by SeanahanFunny, working in computer science and dealing with Google very frequently, I've never since ghits, although I probably would have understood g-hits.... Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > Questions & Answers about Words
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letterbook (in Questions & Answers about Words) by jerry thomasGoogle shows 71,500 ghits for "letterbook uk" (without the quotation marks).Click !! This one gives an alternative view of Florence Nightingale that might be of interest here.... Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > Questions & Answers about Words
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Hip 'n Stitch? (in Questions & Answers about Words) by KallehWell, Goofball, you are right. There are 81 ghits for "hip 'n stitch," and Wordcraft is on top. Interesting...and we are so glad to have you!... Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > Questions & Answers about Words
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Recall and Recollect (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Hic et ubiqueI have it on the authority of the eminent Dr. Hieronymus Hambershlabber that googlia by ghits are the result of mis-firing neurons.In other words, sic transit ganglia mundi... Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > Questions & Answers about Words
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TURBID AND TURGID (in Questions & Answers about Words) by zmježdJesse Sheidlower has to say.I took a look at the the first 30 or 40 ghits for turgid, and most are dictioanry entries or people complaining about the "problem". "Turbid prose" gets 72 ghits, and "turgid prose" gets 32.9K ghits. So, it seems like a very few people do comfuse the two words.... Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > Questions & Answers about Words
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dei ex machinis (in Questions & Answers about Words) by shufitzthe community: there are few ghits for character shield(s) or stormtrooper effect. (You can't easily count ghits for redshirt in this sense, because they are swamped by ghits for the term in its sense... Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > Questions & Answers about Words
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A Ways to Go (in Questions & Answers about Words) by tinman111,000 Ghits, while "A long way to go" got 2,830,000 Ghits. Similarly, "a ways down the road got 21,900 Ghits and "a way down the road" got 48,600 Ghits.I tend to use "ways." I think it's probably dialectical... Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > Questions & Answers about Words
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Could you care less? (in Questions & Answers about Words) by BobHaleSome Google stats worldwide could care less - 4.28 million ghits couldn't care less - 2.51 million ghits uk only could care less 62,800 ghits couldn't care less 132,000 ghits Given that many of those sites are talking about which of the phrases is correct* and that they almost universally agree... Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > Questions & Answers about Words
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Could you care less? (in Questions & Answers about Words) by arniequote:my very favorite figure of speech is the zeugma, which sounds like something you shouldn't mention in polite company.To combine Jerry's and Wordmatic's posts, ghits sound like they are the nasty symptoms of zeugma! ... Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > Questions & Answers about Words
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Bird Nesting (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Asa Lovejoyquote:Originally posted by shufitz:Despite its 83,000+ ghits, "amicable divorce" does seem to be a bit of an oxymoron, doesn't it?What? You've never had a lover say, "Let's just be friends?" Asa the oft rejected... Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > Questions & Answers about Words
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Could you care less? (in Questions & Answers about Words) by wordnerdAHD considers each version legitimate. ghits run about 2:1 in favor of could care less. I don't like it, but apparently the world-of-language has spoken.... Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > Questions & Answers about Words
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on one (in Questions & Answers about Words) by wordmatichmmm... I thought Ghits was/were some sort of southern breakfast food. (Are grits singular or plural?)I've never heard the expression "on one," but maybe it's just short for "on a rampage."... Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > Questions & Answers about Words | » Refine Search » New Search |
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