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The word is used by Charles M. Schulz in a 1982 installment of his Peanuts comic strip, and by Peter O'Donnell in his 1985 Modesty Blaise adventure novel Dead Man's Handle. Charlophobia – the fictional fear of any person named Charlotte or Charlie, mentioned in the comedic book A Duck is Watching Me: Strange and Unusual Phobias (2014), by ...
In a letter to Paul Ariste, an Estonian linguist, Jansson wrote in 1973 that she had created an artificial word which expresses something soft. She came up with an ad hoc Swedish word mumintroll, because, in her opinion, the consonant sound of m in particular conveys a sensation of softness. As an artist, Jansson gave the Moomins a shape that ...
Lists of pejorative terms for people. Lists of pejorative terms for people include: List of ethnic slurs. List of ethnic slurs and epithets by ethnicity. List of common nouns derived from ethnic group names. List of religious slurs. A list of LGBT slang, including LGBT-related slurs. List of age-related terms with negative connotations.
Characteristics. Hippo's skull, showing the large canines and incisors used for fighting. The hippopotamus is a megaherbivore and is exceeded in size among land animals only by elephants and some rhinoceros species. The mean adult weight is around 1,480 kg (3,260 lb) for bulls and 1,365 kg (3,009 lb) for cows.
Second, medical roots generally go together according to language, i.e., Greek prefixes occur with Greek suffixes and Latin prefixes with Latin suffixes. Although international scientific vocabulary is not stringent about segregating combining forms of different languages, it is advisable when coining new words not to mix different lingual roots.
The following is a list of programs broadcast by the U.S cable and satellite network Spike and its predecessors, The National Network and The Nashville Network.The Spike branding was in-use from August 2003 until January 2018, when the network was relaunched as Paramount Network.
The hippocampus or hippocamp, also hippokampos (plural: hippocampi or hippocamps; Ancient Greek: ἱππόκαμπος, from ἵππος, 'horse', and κάμπος, 'sea monster' [1] ), often called a sea-horse [2] in English, [citation needed] is a mythological creature shared by Phoenician, [3] Etruscan, Pictish, Roman and Greek mythology ...
Contents. List of Moomin characters. Some of the many Moomin characters. From left to right, Sniff, Snufkin, Moominpappa, Moominmamma, Moomintroll (Moomin), Mymble, Groke, Snork Maiden and Hattifatteners. A large number of characters appear in the Moomin series by Tove Jansson. The original Swedish names are given with the etymologies and word ...