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| "Aha! moment" (in Questions & Answers about Words) by shufitz quote:Then two Chicago historians on a visit to a museum in Berlin this fall had an "aha!" moment.(from article cited in our "Old Telescopes" thread)Have you ever heard the term aha! moment? It isn't in any of one-look's dictionaries, but it gets plenty of ghits and I thought it was a familiar term... Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > Questions & Answers about Words
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Happenstantially (in Questions & Answers about Words) by zmježddouble the number of ghits as the adverb. And for the latter, the language Log entry is top of the... Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > Questions & Answers about Words
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Detailment (in Questions & Answers about Words) by zmježdmeaning in US English. And as it does get some ghits, it is being used. Probably some kind of specialist... Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > Questions & Answers about Words
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Origin of phrase. (in Questions & Answers about Words) by zmježdIn French, it seems to be L'criture ressemble la prostitution. D'abord on crit pour l'amour de la chose, puis pour quelques amis, et la fin, pour de l'argent. Sometimes attributed to Molire. Mostly on blogs and quotes sites. Less than 20 ghits on the first sentence in the quotation (once you... Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > Questions & Answers about Words
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'Dashboard' (in Questions & Answers about Words) by dalehilemanarnie: I agree with Cater, how do you find out these thingsTo find your source I googled the expr under "intitlerigins" and got 12,000 Ghits. Fortunately yours was on the very first page [Curious Word Origins ( Main Index)] but if it hand't been I could have spent all day plowing through 11,999 of... Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > Questions & Answers about Words
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Generation names... (in Questions & Answers about Words) by wordmaticI thought Gen X was late 80s-early 90s; Gen Y was late 90s and have heard the current generation called Generation Next, but never the Soccer Generation. But I googled it and found 15,000 ghits for SG.This Wikipedia page has a list of all the generations that ever were, since generations began to... Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > Questions & Answers about Words
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Plantation Politics (in Questions & Answers about Words) by shufitzquote:2,000,000 ghits ... According to Emory University's Theology Professor Robert Franklin, it is "shorthand for an immoral concentration of resources, exclusion and the arrogance of a company's unchecked powerI get far far fewer google hits, and of them well over 99% are for Hilary's remark. So... 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 Seanahan. Ginormous enjoys 780,000 ghits, while gihugic is a measly 3,730. I'll use ginormous on occasion, and... 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 aputOh, it's a pure spelling error: 260 ghits is nothing, nowhere near enough to give it any legitimacy. Any mish-mash you can imagine is out there in abundance. Let's try these:recolection: 3030reccolection: 320reccollection: c. 400 (filtering out some valid uses)recollexion: 14recullection: 1 (one... Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > Questions & Answers about Words
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Heiligenschein (in Questions & Answers about Words) by zmježdGerman hits.) Narrowing the search to the English language, drops the results from 359K ghits to 22.5K ghits. It seems to be a term that some anglophones use. I'm sure that many were surprized with the... Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > Questions & Answers about Words
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An aptronym? (in Questions & Answers about Words) by shufitzBack in early February of 2004 we talked about this a bit, comparing aptonym with a-term-I-despise-because-it-inserts-a-groundless-r-into-the-word. Nonetheless, that form-of-bastard-ancestry seems to have prevailed. It has 10,000 ghits, about 20 times as many as the pure and pristine aptonym.Ah... Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > Questions & Answers about Words Road to Hoe/Row to Hoe (in Questions & Answers about Words) by TrossLghits?). Have you heard of this expression? How do you say it? It seems to often be used as meaing... Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > Questions & Answers about Words barage (in Questions & Answers about Words) by dalehilemanhttp://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=barage&defid=2082565My q is not what the word means but have you heard itI Googled it with bar and garage and got hundreds of hits. However, very few of them reflected the UD and I couldn't afford to spend all morning scanning 431 Ghits......while... Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > Questions & Answers about Words New word found (in Questions & Answers about Words) by shufitzApart".The darn thing has 9-1/2 million ghits, and I'd never heard of it.... 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 dalehileman" referring to usable Ghits. Since the discrepany is so common and it has misled so many of us so... Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > Questions & Answers about Words palls/pales (in Questions & Answers about Words) by BobHale". Which do you think is the correct form? Any idea of the origin?Palls in comparison has 1690 Ghits... Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > Questions & Answers about Words
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digital flashlight (in Questions & Answers about Words) by shufitzMore "guesses"? We don't guess here; we research (thanks, zmj). The brand with the most ghits is Vector, which gives no indication of why the product is 'digital'. However, it has has a 'hologen' beam which is 'foucused', plus a '2 positioin' switch. Does this give you the impression of reliability... 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 Kallehunderstand its meaning. As for Ghits...I don't know how much faith I have in those. There are tons of ... think we've talked about Ghits here before as not being all that instructive about anything. I know that, as of today, OEDILF has 801,000 Ghits, and yet CJ tells me that much of that is redundancy... Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > Questions & Answers about Words Marble ceilig (in Questions & Answers about Words) by shufitzbroken the marble ceiling.Is this legit, or is it Pelosi's coinage? I find almost over 75,000 ghits, but... Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > Questions & Answers about Words
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Blunderology (in Questions & Answers about Words) by zmježdLanguage Modeling for Speech Disfluencies. (Googling "speech disfluencies" gets one over 14K ghits... Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > Questions & Answers about Words | » Refine Search » New Search |
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