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Blazers (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Kalleh It just goes to show that you can't always figure out the definition of a word by its context. I had thought "ghits" was a word for "articles," by the context in which it was used.... Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > Questions & Answers about Words
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Blazers (in Questions & Answers about Words) by zmježdWhen I first read your post, I wondered what "ghits" were.It stands for Google hits, and it probably drives the Google lawyers crazy when they see.... Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > Questions & Answers about Words
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Bob asking a grammar question? Whatever next? (in Questions & Answers about Words) by zmježdSometimes Google baffles me.I've read somewhere that Google tailors its results based on your search history, location, and other information.I get 41.8K and 114K ghits respectively.... Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > Questions & Answers about Words
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Ceramist (in Questions & Answers about Words) by wordnerdI would have thought that only 'ceramicist' was proper, and that 'ceramist' was just plain wrong. However, it turns out that the latter has far more ghits, in about a 5:2 ratio.... Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > Questions & Answers about Words Globish (in Questions & Answers about Words) by dalehilemanIt's a new Basic English. Wow! 180,00 hits and I had never before encountered itHad youHow many Ghits places a word in common use... Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > Questions & Answers about Words
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Globish (in Questions & Answers about Words) by wordnerdSean, your google preferences are set to "any language". Limit them to "english sites only", and you're down to 20,000 ghits, which strikes me as substantially under the radar screen.... Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > Questions & Answers about Words
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Word-spotting (in Questions & Answers about Words) by tinmanYou'll get 1,710,000 ghits for "female circumcision," 994,000 for "female genital mutilation," and 764,000 for "female genital cutting." Wikipedia calls it "Female genital cutting (FGC)." Tinman... Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > Questions & Answers about Words
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In...operability (in Questions & Answers about Words) by zmježdboth Kalleh and I got ghits looking it up as "inoperability," so it must be misread and misspelled quite often!When I google inoperability, I get ghits with two meanings quite different from interoperability. One, when something fails to operate (specifically something called the inoperability... Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > Questions & Answers about Words
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Check your neck (in Questions & Answers about Words) by shufitzNot a US term either. Per research, comedian Jeff Foxworthy uses the phrase. ("You know you're a redneck if ..."). And you'll find it in sites about thyroid problems.The phrase gets only 18,500 ghits ... 're down to 776 ghits. And these are things like "check your neck to feel if it is tight or sore"; on... Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > Questions & Answers about Words
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cat road (in Questions & Answers about Words) by wordnerdOn a quick eyeballing, a high percentage of the ghits seem to be spurious: such things as "Black Cat Road" and "Wild Cat Road". That said, there are still quite a few legitimate ghits. The term seems to be used in reference to roads in ski areas (roads made over the snow?)But the British Columbia... Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > Questions & Answers about Words
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Horking - ??? (in Questions & Answers about Words) by tsuwmvowels are those of cop and father respectively. "hock a loogie" gets 10.9K ghits, and "hawk a loogie" gets 1.5K ghits. The Eggcorn database offers this. For the record, my dialect still distinguish ... , leave us not be incomplete on this matter(!): "hork up a loogie" gets 29 ghits - including this... Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > Questions & Answers about Words
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Extremis? (in Questions & Answers about Words) by shufitzquote:It'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.t'aint a tmesis. OED says that 'tmesis' requires a compound word ["The separation of the elements of a compound... Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > Questions & Answers about Words
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De-hyphening (in Questions & Answers about Words) by zmježd"corpus linguisics [sic] database"You get zero ghits if delimited by double quotation marks. Six if you correct the typo. Professor Davies at BYU has a list of corpus databases. The top two, with 100 million words each, are for UK and US English respectively.[Corrected subject-verb concord in final... Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > Questions & Answers about Words
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"Substituting" (in Questions & Answers about Words) by arnieI have never heard of any grammatical stricture against the use of "substituting with" and the phrase seems perfectly OK to me. However, when I Googled "substituting with" I only got around 30K Ghits, but got about 655K when I searched for "substituting for". The latter use seems the more common... Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > Questions & Answers about Words
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Grammatical tenses (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Seanahanquote:The lyrics are "I wish I was an Oscar Mayer weiner," but I thought the ad writers were just being "cute," because the words are sung by kids.Are you sure about that? Wikipedia says it was "I was I were", and ghits don't settle anything.... Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > Questions & Answers about Words
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Happy Feet (in Questions & Answers about Words) by dalehilemanNor IHowever, here's one of 64 Ghits:[PDF] PRF-PT-00024A 1 4. Verification. 4.1. Methods of Verification. The ...File Format: PDF/Adobe Acrobat - View as HTMLspring loaded dust covers or dummy gladhands equipped with retention devices ...www.peostri.army.mil/PM-CATT/Graphics/CCTT/FILES/section... Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > Questions & Answers about Words
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Wordspotting: commercant (in Questions & Answers about Words) by jerry thomasBy entering commercant into Google, I got some four million ghits, the first of which is in French, with a link that says Translate this page.My French/English dictionary says if it's a noun it means "merchant, businessman, shopkeeper." As an adjective it's "commercial, mercantile," or "trading."... Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > Questions & Answers about Words
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Preflection (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Richard EnglishIt would be handy to know the etymology of sequel and sequence in order to create a better word. But I rather suspect that prequel is a product of the same kind of silly thinking that gives us the oxymoronic term "quad bike" (1,260,000 ghits) instead of the correct term "quadricycle" or "quad".... Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > Questions & Answers about Words
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Food of shame (in Questions & Answers about Words) by dalehilemanGosh Bob, I didn't realize I was such a bad personOn another board I was taken to task, drawn and quartered, and torn 8 ways from the middle for having made the assumption that a small number of Ghits necessarily means an expr isn't in common use... Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > Questions & Answers about Words "going viral" (in Questions & Answers about Words) by wordnerdI heard a TV news report refer to something or other "going viral". This was completely new to me, but apparently it's a quite common phrase. There are 116,000 ghits for "go viral" (plus another 100,000 or so for "going", "gone" and "went").What the heck does it mean?... Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > Questions & Answers about Words | » Refine Search » New Search |
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