Category Archives: Words
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Singlenesia — My first post and the pokerspammers have found me.
A Collection of Word Oddities and Trivia
Jeff Miller —
Miscellany, Palindromes, Uncommon double letters; triple letters; quadruple letters, Typewriter words; consecutive consonants, Misspelled words; pangrams, Beautiful words; most frequent appearance of each letter …
It’s just the “internet” now
Wired News &mdash August 16, 2004.
Effective with this sentence, Wired News will no longer capitalize the “I” in internet. At the same time, Web becomes web and Net becomes net.
Words: Woe and Wonder
CBC — Essays on word usage.
100 most often mispronounced words
yourDictionary.com – Including:
| Wrong | Right | |
| card shark | cardsharp | |
| chomp at the bit | champ at the bit | “Chomp” has probably replaced “champ” in the U.S. but we thought you might like to be reminded that the vowel should be [æ] not [o]. |
| diptheria | diphtheria | The “ph” in this word is pronounced [f], not [p]. |
| Heineken remover | Heimlich maneuver | This term is mispronounced many different ways. |
| often | ofen | DON’T pronounce the [t]. |
| sherbert | sherbet | |
| spitting image | spit and image | The very spit of someone is an exact likeness. |
| tenderhooks | tenterhooks | Tenters are frames for stretching cloth while it dries. |
| ways | way | “I have a ways to go” should be “I have a way to go.” The article “a” does not fit well with a plural. |
100 most often misspelled words
yourDictionary.com – Including:
bellwether
daiquiri
dumbbell
fiery
gauge
humorous
judgement
kernel
maneuver
noticeable
occasionally
pastime
playwright
supersede
twelfth
Spook Words
William Knowles has a list of Spook Words that supposedly raise an eyebrow among the spies assigned to monitor our communications. A selection of terms you can sprinkle upon your correspondences to befuddle our monitors:
Reno, Passwords, White House, Mayfly, MSNBC, COSMOS, Active X, Steve Case, Tools, Military Intelligence, Scully, Bubba, spook words, NAVWCWPNS, USACIL, SACLANT, Echelon,WANK, Colonel, nitrate, enigma, Bletchley Park, Capricorn, Guppy, Ionosphere, Mole, Keyhole, Artichoke, Cornflower, r00t, lock picking, Porno, Fax, finks, Fax encryption, white noise, pink noise, redheads, Pornstars, toad, fish, Elvis, quiche, sneakers, Juiliett Class Submarine, Blowpipe, Nerd, Speakeasy, Keyhole, Wackenhutt, Weekly World News, Zen, World Domination, Salsa, 7, Blowfish, Bubba the Love Sponge, Blackbird, plutonium, Texas, jihad, Sears Tower, NORAD, Delta Force, garbage, market, beef, Stego, unclassified, utopia, orthodox, Alica, SHA, Global, gorilla, Bob, veggie, 3848, speedbump, illuminati, president, freedom, cocaine, $, Roswell, assasinate, virus, anarchy, rogue, mailbomb, 888, Chelsea, 1997, Whitewater, William Gates, clone, eternity server, sardine, Red Cell, Glock 26, snuffle, Patel, package, froglegs, Aladdin, chameleon man, rail gun, 17, 312, Halibut, Flu, DynCorp, THAAD, package, chosen, PRIME.
All About Facets and Controlled Vocabularies
Boxes and Arrows: “Information architects are fascinated with faceted classification and its application to information architecture problems. However, facets remain difficult to understand and there are few options for learning about them.”