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Apropos of nothing, the number of Google results for doggone vs. dog-gone are surprisingly similar (2,100,000 vs. 2,040,000).
Things I tripped over on my way to the internet
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“Irregardless is not a word. Use regardless or irrespective.”
“… will be of great interest to web developers and programmers interested in geolocating data, but completely abstruse to everyone else.”
The Map Room: Yahoo’s Internet Location Platform
“Abstruse” is a word? I could have sworn it was “obtuse”. Turns out the word is abstruse and I’m obtuse (check out the Word Tutor section of that last link).
“Abstruse” is a word? I could have sworn it was “obtuse”. Turns out the word is abstruse and I’m obtuse (check out the Word Tutor section of that last link).
interregnum »
n : the time between two reigns, governments, etc.
I generally link to the Word of the Day from definr because of a good quote but this time I just think it’s an interesting word. There’s a period between the end of one two-year session of the California Legislature and the beginning of the next that there is technically no legislature. That there’s an interregnum.
“Primary schoolchildren spoilt at home can disrupt classes with behaviour such as tantrums, a report says.”
AQ
from dailymeh:
I cannot pretend it’s a frequently asked question, but at least it’s an asked question. The author of Things I tripped over on my way to the internet asks, in response to a totally unrelated link of mine that somehow mentioned the word “excruciated”:
I just have one question: Is “excruciated” a word?The answer: yes, it’s the past form of excruciate, meaning inflicting pain upon or torture. In the context, “She might have been spared a lifetime of being polite but bored, bewildered, and sometimes excruciated while listening to music”, it’s used in the passive voice—meaning, this woman was inflected pain upon by her not being able to perceive music.
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Wow, a response to my half-serious question! Thanks! I actually got the sense from the quote that, rather than the pain being inflicted by the inability to perceive music, what she hears instead of music is so noisome that she is excruciated by it. I guess that’s kind of the same thing.
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