Another very common one is "PDF file".

Well... Technically, 'PDF' stands for Portable Document Format, so that's not so much tautological as it is more than most people care to know.

Another very common one is "PDF file".

Well... Technically, 'PDF' stands for Portable Document Format, so that's not so much tautological as it is more than most people care to know.

Another very common one is "PDF file".

Well... Technically, 'PDF' stands for Portable Document Format, so that's not so much tautological as it is more than most people care to know.

Another very common one is "PDF file".

Well... Technically, 'PDF' stands for Portable Document Format, so that's not so much tautological as it is more than most people care to know.

I wonder if there be any relationship between Latin sanguis and sanctus. It seems that blood works its way into many sacred rites...

Of course my favorite is the fictional Dewey, Cheatham & Howe law firm from the Car Talk brothers, Click and Clack.



-Tim

Notes: We need sisters like this semantic sister of red for all adjectives: why not adjectives meaning "becoming old", "becoming blue", "becoming cold", and so on? Other languages do this easily. Chinese and Korean have a suffix word, "hwa", which one can add...

And of course we techno-nerds immediately think of Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) when we hear the word 'orthogonal'. OFDM is the technology used in the 802.11g radios these days, which succeeded the 802.11b radios of just a couple years ago. Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiple...

A mether (meadair) is square drinking vessel, usually wooden.
The discerning will guess why I know this word...

-gailr
Iechyd da

...but it wasn't limited only to mead, was it?

Here's a website with a thread that goes into too many food names to list again... but I know many of us here would enjoy reading it.

Funny Food Names

Would a perpetrator of impetration be an impetrator?

I don't remember ever running across definition 2, but the meaning is immediately clear in such contexts.

By the way, would this share the same PIE root as ghost...?

“The overweening self-respect of conceited men relieves others from the duty of respecting them at all.” ~ Henry Ward Beecher overweening 1340, from prp. of overwenen "be conceited, presume," from O.E. ofer - wenian , from ofer + "over" + wenian (see ween ). And for those who are...

I grew up buffered by oaths, both minced and whole...

Couldn't help but think of new turns of phrase... Whole oaths, not just for breakfast anymore! Then there's instant oaths... rolled oaths... wild oaths... steel cut oaths! irish oaths! scottish oaths!

ok... I'll stop now.

And did the 'fickle [n]' disappear to give us fragile...?