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Debathification ? (in Questions & Answers about Words) by zmježd FWIW, debaathification gets 10 times the ghits as debathification. I don't quite see what's the hubbub. Seems like a straight-forward coining. Nazi was the term for the NSDAP, the party in control of Germany when WW2 started, and Baath for the Iraqi political party that was in power when the US and... Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > Questions & Answers about Words
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Reoccur; recur (in Questions & Answers about Words) by arnieI've always used recur and that's the only version in most of the dictionaries. Reoccur doesn't seem to be counted as a 'real' word, although I've seem it used often enough. I found that there were 363K ghits for reoccur but 3.4M for recur.... Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > Questions & Answers about Words
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Being specific about spelling Pasifik (in Questions & Answers about Words) by wordnerdPasifik, entered into Google Search yields one point two million hits, so it must have something going for it.You've noted that the spelling is standard in certain non-english tongues. When I limit the google search to "English only" the total drops to 65,800 ghits -- and a good chunk of these are... Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > Questions & Answers about Words Food of shame (in Questions & Answers about Words) by dalehilemanhttp://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=food+of+shame&defid=2080159Apparently dating from about mid-2000, evidently it means junk food. With only 666 Ghits I'm trying to decide whether it's worth pursuingSo have you heard it or what other criteria might you applyThanks all... Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > Questions & Answers about Words
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Interglossa (in Questions & Answers about Words) by zmježdIt sounded like a medical term to me, so I looked it up on Google, linked with medicine.Well, here's my Google results (link). The first page of ghits refers only to the auxiliary artificial language. I looked it up on Wikipedia, and this is what I got (link). Could you provide a link to your... Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > Questions & Answers about Words
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Euphemisms make a mulligan for wrecklessness. (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aputNever heard of 'mulligan'. And 'wrecklessly' has some 7000 ghits, many of which are evidently intended seriously. 'Wreckless' has 280 000 ghits, but excluding Wreckless Eric brings it down to 200 000. There's a computer game Wreckless, let's see if we can eliminate that too: "wreckless -eric -game... Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > Questions & Answers about Words
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Horking - ??? (in Questions & Answers about Words) by zmježdrespectively. "hock a loogie" gets 10.9K ghits, and "hawk a loogie" gets 1.5K ghits. The Eggcorn... Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > Questions & Answers about Words
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New portmanteau etc, need your opinion (in Questions & Answers about Words) by BobHalestrip out sites with "video" (There is a video with this title) the ghits drop to 922 most of which still seem to be personal blogs.President Bush's famous slip "misunderestimate" has 95,000+ Ghits. Doesn... Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > Questions & Answers about Words
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WIZ OR GEE WIZ OR Cheese Wiz (in Questions & Answers about Words) by zmježdstats from googling (ghits = Google hits):"take a whiz" 17.4K ghits"take a wiz" 2.13K ghits"take a... Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > Questions & Answers about Words "Dis" discussion (in Questions & Answers about Words) by wordnerdthe 'erectile' or 'sexual' sort:1,780,000 ghits for dysfunction -erectile -sexual308,000 ghits for... Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > Questions & Answers about Words
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blowtorch rock (in Questions & Answers about Words) by BobHalehave a powerful and "scorching" sound.All of the above examples get some ghits used in this... Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > Questions & Answers about Words
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graip (in Questions & Answers about Words) by shufitzquote:There are 21,800 cites for it on GoogleIt drops to only 904 if you set your Google preferences to "English only"; only 403 of them are "non-similar to those already displayed"; and many of those are not on point. So it's quite a rare word.A major portion of ghits seem to indicate that 'graip... Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > Questions & Answers about Words
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De-hyphening (in Questions & Answers about Words) by BobHalequote:Originally posted 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, is for UK and US English respectively.Thanks... Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > Questions & Answers about Words
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The Baseball Gonfalon (in Questions & Answers about Words) by shufitzzmjezhd has posted a saying from Candide: Tout est pour le mieux dans le meilleur des mondes. "All is for the best in the best of all worlds." A more common way of putting it (26,000+ ghits) is, "This is the best of all possible worlds."I wonder if the baseball poem was making a take-off on that... Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > Questions & Answers about Words
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Dibb Dibb, Dobb Dobb (in Questions & Answers about Words) by wordmaticGoogling Richard's spelling (oh dear, there's Margaret again!) brings up a lot more ghits. Heres a quote from a scout glossary page from Edinburgh:http://www.edinburgh-scout.org.uk/what-is/glossary.htmlThis one says DYB DOB is basically obsolete.Some of the pages refer to an opening or closing... Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > Questions & Answers about Words
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OMG! (in Questions & Answers about Words) by SeanahanI have heard people, mostly late teens/early twenties use OMG, although typically it would be OMFG, since saying "Oh My God" isn't that bad, but adding the F makes it rude. On a side note, there is this tendency to extend OMFG to absurd lengths online, as evidenced by 10,800 ghits for "OMFGROTFLMAO... Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > Questions & Answers about Words
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Preflection (in Questions & Answers about Words) by BobHale. In the meantime, given that "prequel" is in common use and has around six million ghits, I'd say... Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > Questions & Answers about Words
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team?mates (in Questions & Answers about Words) by arnieI suspect I need some help in searching Google. A search for "teammate" gave around 13,900,000 Ghits; one for "team-mate" about 2,790,000; whereas "team mate" reported 2,810,000. However, a cursory look through the results for team mate gave several hits for team-mate. Is there any way of filtering... Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > Questions & Answers about Words
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Blazers (in Questions & Answers about Words) by tinmanI thought it was just a typo, the kind you get when you intend to hit one key and end up hitting two. How do you pronounce it? Is it "gits," with a silent "h," or "gee-hits?" Though "g" stands for "google," I assume "ghits" applies to hits with any search engine, much to Google's dismay. Is that... 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 dalehilemanI think you are absolutely rightI also think you will probably get hundreds if not tens of thousands of Ghits with "turgid" used to mean turbidFinally, if we live long enough I positively predict that this "new" meaning will eventually appear in Webster's CollegiateThe bottom line is that by... Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > Questions & Answers about Words | » Refine Search » New Search |
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