Abused, Confused, & Misused Words by Mary Embree Copyright © 2007, 2013 by Mary Embree weird (wîrd) adj. weird·er, weird·est 1. Strikingly odd or unusual, especially in an unsettling way; strange: He lives in a weird old house on a dark street. Your neighbor is said to be...
Words from French that have been adopted into English are similarly frustrating for Wordle players. The wordmadamrecently caused some annoyance, as didfoyer.Foyercan be pronounced either [foi-er ] or [foi-ey ] in English, which doesn’t make it any easier to spell. In English, afoyeris ...
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Roughly halfway between Evansville and Mt. Vernon on Caborn Road sits a family farm with four silos. These silos are just like any other silo on any other farm in the state, with one exception, the words, coffee, sugar, tea, and flour have been painted on the side big enough to where...
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A lot of it is garbled junk, sentences that read like a computer ingested the Oxford English Dictionary and vomited it back out. The results are bizarre and often unintentionally hilarious, a favorite subject of forwarded emails or, in the age of Twitter, cult celebrity. Spam account@horse_eb...
You may also like:Bizarre slang words and phrases from every state 1935: Monopoly Lucianomarq // Wikimedia Commons 1935: Monopoly Monopoly was introduced by Parker Brothers in 1935 and sold 20,000 sets in one week. It is still one of America's most popular board games and is produced in...
You may also like:Bizarre slang words and phrases from every state 1935: Monopoly Lucianomarq // Wikimedia Commons 1935: Monopoly Monopoly was introduced by Parker Brothers in 1935 and sold 20,000 sets in one week. It is still one of America's most popular board games and is produced in...
You may also like:Bizarre slang words and phrases from every state 1935: Monopoly Lucianomarq // Wikimedia Commons 1935: Monopoly Monopoly was introduced by Parker Brothers in 1935 and sold 20,000 sets in one week. It is still one of America's most popular board games and is produced in...