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Tag: Language

10 Contranyms (with examples)

July 22, 2020 Geoff For Readers, Language

English is a confusing language. Simple words can have opposite meanings or different implications. It all depends on the context. Here’s some examples …

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Punning around with Tom Swifties

July 12, 2020 Geoff Fun

Tom Swifties are puns that turn adverbs into punchlines.

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What the FAQ?

March 19, 2020 Geoff For Readers, Language

There’s and old saying that the computing industry is confusing mass of TLAs (Three-Letter Acronyms) and ETLAs (Extended Three-Letter Acronyms[…]

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A Rough Guide to Rude Rhyming Slang

March 16, 2020 Geoff For Writers, Language

Cockney rhyming slang is fun, silly, and surprisingly rude.

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Over-excited Puddings and Other Odd Origins

February 19, 2020 Geoff For Readers, Fun, Language

Whether you’re miffed, waffling, ticket-boo or taking the Mickey, the English language is full of words with odd derivations. Just don’t pop your clogs before reading this…

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The 8 longest words in English

September 29, 2019 Geoff For Writers, Fun, Language

The longest word in the English language is a whisker under 190,000 letters long and would take over an hour[…]

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Famous Razors

October 22, 2017 Geoff For Readers, For Writers, Fun, Quotes

Razors aren’t just for shaving. In philosophy, a razor is a rule of thumb that allows for the elimination (the[…]

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“A little lesbian joke …”

May 12, 2017 Geoff For Readers, For Writers

The Bechdel test — sometimes called the Bechdel-Wallace test — began as “a little lesbian joke in an alternative feminist[…]

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Context is everything! Cats and dogs in the Bible

March 10, 2017 Geoff For Readers, For Writers, Fun

I spotted this quote in a magazine this week … “The dog is mentioned in the Bible 18 times —[…]

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Check your popularity with n-grams

March 3, 2017 Geoff Fun

Y’all know about n-grams, right? Wikipedia nails ’em: … an n-gram is a contiguous sequence of n items from a given[…]

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