You know its bad when the dictionary comes to argue.
You know its bad when the dictionary comes to argue.
BTW, check merriam-webster's bluesky. Its really good.
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I believe that is a backronym.
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It stands for “never eat waffles (soggy)”.
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I was told
North, East, West, South
What is happening in all directions
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Just in case anyone was wondering: it's because it's about new events
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I like the simplicity and brevity of their response
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When you know every word there is it's easy to find just the right one.
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come on, y'all. it clearly stands for North, East, West, South!
i love folk etymology.
"News" is actually the "new things". The plural of "new".
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does this make a history book "the olds"?
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if you want to coin that term, i'll support it
edit - but until now, the "olds" has always been the name we gave my grandpa's old eight-eight
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Why stop there?
new(adj.)
Middle English neue, from Old English neowe, niowe, earlier niwe "made or established for the first time, fresh, recently made or grown; novel, unheard-of, different from the old; untried, inexperienced, unused," from Proto-Germanic neuja-(source also of Old Saxon niuwi, Old Frisian nie, Middle Dutch nieuwe, Dutch nieuw, Old High German niuwl, German neu, Danish and Swedish ny, Gothic niujis "new").
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Welp, that was 19 years down he drain.
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In French it’s literally “nines” wtf is their problem.
Just kidding. It’s nouvelles. But “neuf” means both “new” and “nine.”
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ok… I actually never made the connection between neuf and neuf x)
and saying "a nine" is pronounced the same as "an egg" (un neuf/un Ĺ“uf)
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That's not an argument, that's just contradiction.
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I think the dictionary has the authority to just contradict misinformation about etymology.
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It depends which one. Only the Oxford English Dictionary does. Websters is full of spelling mistakes :)
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No, it isn’t.
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Thank you, Webster.
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“I just saw this somewhere, so I’m going to tweet about how I just discovered it myself. And yes, I think that’s a cool thing to do.”
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