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Various Surnames 2

slsch wrote 1 week ago:   Here are 10 surnames (or last names) you can get from domain name registrars now – no one owns the … more →

Tags: Last Names, names, Single Word Names, Surnames, akim, Albritton, Angles, BoSCO, Dolittle

Suffixation8 comments

pannonica wrote 1 week ago: I recently read a strange and disturbing little book. I tend to be attracted to strange and disturb … more →

Tags: categorized!, english usage, Aaron, Ben MacIntyre, Books, Buster Keaton, Christopher Walken, Edgar Allan Poe, Franz Kafka

Various Surnames

slsch wrote 4 weeks ago:   Here are 10 surnames (or last names) you can get from domain name registrars now – no one owns the … more →

Tags: Last Names, names, Single Word Names, Surnames, casule, gigerenzer, jiraphon, rehlin, scholkopf

French Surnames

slsch wrote 4 weeks ago:   Here are 10 French surnames (or last names) you can get from domain name registrars now – no one o … more →

Tags: Last Names, names, Single Word Names, billeaux, brancamp, bridet, champlaine, descoteau, desilles

Damoclean vs Superclean?

wordcrunch wrote 4 months ago: “That means superclean,” my nine-year-old quipped. ”Or, you better get it really, … more →

Eponyms on my iPhone make me Happy2 comments

sandnsurf wrote 10 months ago: Over 1600 eponymous signs, symptoms and syndromes packed into this free website – alphabetical … more →

Tags: Browser, Search, Doctor, Physician, health, iPhone, Medical, Palm, Free

English language genercide: the power of popular usage.9 comments

robertstevenson wrote 1 year ago: In one of my first posts titled Evolving Language, we saw that with over 600,000 words, English cont … more →

Tags: Life, Thoughts, Interesting stuff, language, WorDs, English, dumpster, genercide, proprietary

IBYDKT - 1: Bata

theOracle wrote 1 year ago: IBYDK stands for I Bet You Didn’t Know That… Bata will kickstart the series of IBYDK (I … more →

Tags: General, IBYDKT, Wikipedia

Eponyms -- what's in a name?

paisleyandplaid wrote 1 year ago: We know about synonyms, antonyms, and homonyms. “Eponyms” are words derived from a perso … more →

Tags: English matters, WorDs, language, etymology

Who named it?

Øystein wrote 1 year ago: Ever wondered who the “Down” in Down’s Syndrome is? Or how Creutzfeldt and Jakob d … more →

Tags: Medicine, Links, Down's Syndrome, creutzfeldt-jacob


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