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I just figured out that entomology is not the study of ants, but of insects in general. Then I figured out that myrmecology is the study of ants, not fungus. Because it's mycology which is the study of fungus, not the study of looking at small things, which is microscopy.
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If you want to make someone feel stupid: "Uh, wages have been falling for 40 years." If you want to politely point out an oversight: "Er, wages have been falling for 40 years." It turns out that the second version started out as just the British spelling, and Er was pronounced with a soft r, like Uh. After seeing it in print, people sometimes say "Er."
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Not My Leg posted:I just figured out I'm not in the Star Trek thread in TVIV. And in French, petard, meaning explosion, was probably associated with pet, meaning fart.
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Helith posted:Up until yesterday I secretly believed that David Bowie was eternal and that he would continue to pop up every decade or so with a new look and an album of songs for us to enjoy. Take hope: John Lennon's last song was released 15 years after his death...
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Jan 12, 2016 18:25
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Bridge failure, but with trees? Makes sense.
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Apr 8, 2016 17:49
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"It's a dog-eat-dog world", not "It's a doggie-dog world."
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Aug 3, 2016 14:05
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Snapchat A Titty posted:
Weird, since I had always read that Orange came to us from Arabic: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_English_words_of_Arabic_origin_(N-S)
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James Garfield posted:It did! The Arabic word for orange came from Sanskrit (via Persian) But I thought the Arabic word for orange was a variation on 'Portugal' . . . I looked into it, and the Sanskrit word naranj that produced our 'orange' is now only used in Arabic to mean 'a bitter orange', like the oranges they use in curacao and other liqueurs. I guess the Portuguese showed up later with the first oranges that didn't taste like rear end, so common oranges are now named after them.
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Sep 12, 2016 15:39
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RareAcumen posted:Diamonds are mostly just scratch resistant but not especially durable and can be broken with a hammer. Or set on fire, for real.
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I use the hard 'g' because I'm usually referring to the Graphics Interchange Format rather than the Giraffes Interchange Format.
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Apr 8, 2017 19:32
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Calling a golf car a "golf cart" is another popular one. Or maybe it should be golf mobile.
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Aug 16, 2017 16:37
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I just learned that HTH is not someone making making a sort of hissing sound while flicking their tongue over their teeth. 
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Oct 15, 2017 16:48
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Charles Schultz played WWI games growing up because WWII wasn't invented yet. He was old.
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Nov 4, 2017 00:33
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You already know that "righty" means clockwise because that's how you steer a wheel or bicycle handle to the right.
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In pop culture, whenever someone says "I was a kid and my father sat me down for The Talk", they are referring a sex & reproduction talk, not a "that's it, no more crying" talk.
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Apr 6, 2018 14:12
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Rick Moranis is not the lead singer of a band called Arcade Fire.
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Canadian accents are all Tommy Chong to me.
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