Speaking of petrichor, is there an equivalent word for how vibrant colours look when the Sun comes out after the rain?
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Another word I learned via OTF is rhotic: "Relating to or denoting a dialect or variety of English (e.g. in most of the US and south-western England) in which r is pronounced before a consonant (as in "hard") and at the ends of words (as in "far")". There's also a noun, rhoticity.
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Originally posted by Furtho View PostThere's also a noun, rhoticity.
Abugida is another one from the field of linguistics I like to throw in occasionally - "a writing system which is between syllabic and alphabetic scripts" i.e. each glyph represents a consonant and a vowel paired.
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Another Baader-Meinhof moment for me. I had to look up comorbidity the other day. I thought it meant something like 'increasingly likely to lead to death', but the actual meaning 'presence of one or more conditions in addition to your primary condition' is less scary.
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Originally posted by Diable Rouge View PostSesquipedalian - because brevity is preferable as a rule, as such NS can figure out the definition through opposites.
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