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“A.K.A. Denali.”
About 19 hours ago,
on the word Mount McKinley
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“Really? My SO has been there.
Oh dammit, that site starts with some stupid music. So...”
About 19 hours ago,
on the word Winchester Mystery House
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“Aha! Reesetee! Now it IS Soundie and you CAN give us examples of your bird-squawks!! :)”
About 19 hours ago,
on the word aboiement
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“lookatthisfreespamrighthereonWordnikfree”
About 19 hours ago,
on jungzing's profile
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“Either there, or in the greater Boston area.”
4 days ago,
on the word snake
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“Come to think of it, I don't believe there are any snakes in the greater Boston area, either... *ponders*”
4 days ago,
on the word snake
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“John, is there a way to search for lists (by title, say) and I'm not seeing it? It annoys me to scroll through my own seventy bazillion lists to fi...”
5 days ago,
on the word features
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“Video seen here.”
5 days ago,
on the word vampire squid
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“"Why Ireland has no snakes," by a zoologist at the ...”
5 days ago,
on the word snake
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“I thought this article about slang using "Irish" was pretty interesting. Happy S...”
5 days ago,
on the word Irish
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“Usage on favela.”
5 days ago,
on the word trafficantes
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“Rio's lawmen are once again confronting favela drug lords; six of the meanest slums have been declared bandit-free, including the infamou...”
5 days ago,
on the word favela
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“Sometime between 2004 and 2009, he attended two dinners sponsored by the mainstream, fundamentalist Muslim Brotherhood, but he wasn't impressed. H...”
5 days ago,
on the word mansaf
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“He has softened the Bush-era rhetoric and turned down the volume on what a former CIA chieftain once called 'the Mighty Wurlitzer,' a mythical o...”
5 days ago,
on the word the Mighty Wurlitzer
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“He has always known that speaking of a 'crusade' and 'Islamofascism' was a good way to make jihadists out of Muslim teenagers..."
—Evan Thomas...”
5 days ago,
on the word Islamofascism
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“There was a good chance that the coach would be detained—was sure to be slow, bogged down on the miry roads.
Speaking of coaches—his heart gave a...”
5 days ago,
on the word porte cochere
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“She had yet another mask, he saw, this one a stiff thing made of basket withes lined with layers of soft cotton cloth. She fitted this gently to...”
5 days ago,
on the word withes
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“'Why the devil should this trusdair take your son?' Buccleigh rolled down his window and stuck his head out.... 'And why, for the sake of a...”
5 days ago,
on the word trusdair
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“Nice list! (and title)”
5 days ago,
on the list Things Your Angry Conservative Grandparents Might Say
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Another meaning applies here:
"The little engraver betrayed no particular discomfort under this basilisk stare and went on telling me about the ...”
5 days ago,
on the word blatherskite
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“Usage on stultiloquy.”
5 days ago,
on the word foistingness
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“'Ungrateful!' Abram said, his face congested. 'And what should we be grateful for, then? For having soldiers foisted upon us?'
'Oh, foisted, is...”
5 days ago,
on the word stultiloquy
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“'I'm afraid your cabin was all ahoo, ma'am,' he said. 'But I picked up what bits was scattered on the floor...'"
—Diana Gabaldon, An Echo in ...”
5 days ago,
on the word ahoo
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“Two studies last year in the NEJM {New England Journal of Medicine} showed that vertebroplasty, in which cement is inserted through a nee...”
5 days ago,
on the word vertebroplasty
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“Toxicology tests showed that he had been dosed with succinylcholine, a paralyzing agent."
—Michael Isikoff, "Murder in Dubai," Newsweek, ...”
5 days ago,
on the word succinylcholine
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“Many principals don't even try to weed out the poor performers (or they transfer them to other schools in what's been dubbed the '[dance of the le...”
5 days ago,
on the word dance of the lemons
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“*titters at whichbe's year-old joke*
”
5 days ago,
on the word yoghurt
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“I recall those. They were like riding in big Matchbox™® cars.”
5 days ago,
on the word silver Aries K with red vinyl interior, constant antifreeze smell
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“whirly skirt.”
5 days ago,
on the word traded in tiara for a cloche
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“No, but that's the closest I came to learning to drive a manual.
It's hard to get the pages to shift when you want them to, you know? Especially ...”
5 days ago,
on the word yellow Volkswagen Superbeetle upon which I painted green kangaroos
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“That car sounds friggin' awesome!”
5 days ago,
on the word first cars
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“Seen here.”
5 days ago,
on the word a secretive bird
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“Oh John. You so sexy. :)”
5 days ago,
on the word first cars
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“It was semi-automatic. Who knew they even made those?”
5 days ago,
on the word yellow Volkswagen Superbeetle upon which I painted green kangaroos
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“Shane MacGowan pronounces it "pray-tees" in the song, if that helps (or matters).”
7 days ago,
on the word praties
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“psst... it's Pearl Harbor.”
7 days ago,
on the word Pearl Harbour
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“By Janae."
Now *there's* a sales pitch! :)”
10 days ago,
on the word Forehead Tittaes
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“Um... that's the call of the wild chained_bear, below, if that's what you're referring to.”
10 days ago,
on the word nebraksa
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“I wish there were a way to add the Berenado Vinibobo to this list.
Wait... is Yemen also called the Yemen? Curious.”
10 days ago,
on the list sometime-definite-article countries
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“See crappucino. Or crappuccino.”
10 days ago,
on the word crapuccino
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“UAV! Now we know what ptero's REALLY been up to lately...”
10 days ago,
on the word pterodactyl
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Unmanned aerial vehicle(s). Usage:
"At least 40 other countries--from Belarus and Georgia to India, Pakistan and Russia--have begun to build, buy,...”
10 days ago,
on the word UAV
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“uav is very different from a UAV, I learned today.”
10 days ago,
on the word uav
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“Who you callin' fuzzbutt, leather-ears?”
10 days ago,
on the list Australian Derivation ... or, you know, -ism
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“I never heard these, actually. That might be because when I was there it was a generation ago. I never actually heard anyone saying barbie when I...”
10 days ago,
on the list Australian Derivation ... or, you know, -ism
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“tee hee!! *excellent* link, Pro... :)”
11 days ago,
on the word helvetica
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“Oh. *ignores signals as they are not useful*”
11 days ago,
on the list Hottest Guys Names
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“*loves telofy* Thank you for championing the en-dash! ”
11 days ago,
on feedback's profile
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“*amusedly watches the preening*”
11 days ago,
on the list Hottest Guys Names
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“This is the stuff of my nightmares.”
11 days ago,
on the word stewed dog