English is so weird.
Gross can mean: 12 dozen, total before taxes, and disgusting? How is that possible?! And don't get me started on the myriad meanings of "make up/make-up" |
You guys should follow merriam webster on instagram - their posts go into words like this, and they are amazing!
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Can we also talk about pronunciations? Just this week I heard Irish speakers on NPR pronounce Gaza with a nasally a in the first syllable "GAAAAH-zah" and "HBO" with a very pronounced "H" that I don't know how to write phonetically. It was super off-putting. |
Comments like this always remind me of the classic poem "The Chaos". https://people.cs.georgetown.edu/nschneid/cosc272/f17/a1/chaos.html Just a warning, it is long, but here is a teaser of the first verse. It's a classic and great.
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Haych? Haych is how many British speakers will say "H". |
Back in the day... Our Quetico maps' portage lengths were in rods. A five hundred rods with a 75 lb canoe on your shoulders is a long way... |
Haitch |
Heterosexual |
Please provide an example of using alight with regard to an idea, without using the word idea, to help me work it in next week! |
After a burst of innovation with no initial purpose, the AI initiative alighted on the TACOMA project and we now have concrete strategies in place for targeted use of AI. |
Excellent. Thank you |