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The first recorded usage of google was as a gerund, on July 8, 1998, by Google co-founder Larry Page himself, who wrote on a mailing list: "Have fun and keep googling!". [7] Its earliest known use as an explicitly transitive verb on American television was in the "Help" episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer (October 15, 2002), when Willow asked Buffy, "Have you googled her yet?".
In 1993, about 350 documents were forged by Lawrence X. Cusack III. These papers were supposedly from, or related to, John F. Kennedy.Some of them alleged that Kennedy had a secret first marriage and dealings with organized crime, had bribed FBI director J. Edgar Hoover, and paid hush money to Marilyn Monroe.
Hella was included on the BBC's list of 20 words that sum up the 2000–2009 decade, defined as "An intensive in Youthspeak, generally substituting for the word very". [15] Paralleling the use of the minced oath heck, some people use hecka in place of hella. [2] Younger school children may be required to use this form. [16]
Gezelligheid (Dutch pronunciation: [ɣəˈzɛləxɛit] ⓘ) is a Dutch word which, depending on context, can be translated as 'conviviality', 'coziness', 'fun'. It is often used to describe a social and relaxed situation.
An autological word (or homological word) [1] expresses a property that it also possesses. For example the word "pentasyllabic" has five syllables, the word "writable" is writable, and the word "English" is in English. The opposite, a heterological word, does not apply to itself.
Katagelasticism is a psychological condition in which a person excessively enjoys mocking others. Katagelasticists actively seek and establish situations in which they can laugh at others (at the expense of these people).
The word teetertotter (used in North American English) is longer at 12 letters, although it is usually spelled with a hyphen. The longest using only the middle row is shakalshas (10 letters). Nine-letter words include flagfalls; eight-letter words include galahads and alfalfas. Since the bottom row contains no vowels, no standard words can be ...
False friends, words from different languages that appear similar but differ in meaning; Synonyms, different words with identical or very similar meanings (conceptual inversion of "homonym") Riddle; Word play