Well... Technically, 'PDF' stands for Portable Document Format, so that's not so much tautological as it is more than most people care to know.Another very common one is "PDF file".
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- Sun Jun 24, 2007 1:29 am
- Forum: Good Word Discussion
- Topic: TAUTOLOGY
- Replies: 16
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- Sun Jun 24, 2007 1:29 am
- Forum: Good Word Discussion
- Topic: TAUTOLOGY
- Replies: 16
- Views: 28061
- Sun Jun 24, 2007 1:28 am
- Forum: Good Word Discussion
- Topic: TAUTOLOGY
- Replies: 16
- Views: 28061
- Sun Jun 24, 2007 1:28 am
- Forum: Good Word Discussion
- Topic: TAUTOLOGY
- Replies: 16
- Views: 28061
- Sun Jun 24, 2007 1:23 am
- Forum: Good Word Discussion
- Topic: EXSANGUINE
- Replies: 1
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- Tue Mar 13, 2007 2:00 pm
- Forum: Site News
- Topic: Uncommonly Appropriate Partnerships
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- Mon Feb 26, 2007 4:41 pm
- Forum: Good Word Discussion
- Topic: RUBESCENT
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- Views: 11139
Re: Rubescent
Notes: We need sisters like this semantic sister of red for all adjectives: why not adjectives meaning "becoming old", "becoming blue", "becoming cold", and so on? Other languages do this easily. Chinese and Korean have a suffix word, "hwa", which one can add...
- Mon Feb 26, 2007 4:22 pm
- Forum: Good Word Discussion
- Topic: ORTHOGONAL
- Replies: 7
- Views: 13238
And of course we techno-nerds immediately think of Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) when we hear the word 'orthogonal'. OFDM is the technology used in the 802.11g radios these days, which succeeded the 802.11b radios of just a couple years ago. Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiple...
- Thu Feb 22, 2007 7:49 pm
- Forum: Good Word Suggestions
- Topic: Comether
- Replies: 10
- Views: 15480
- Wed Feb 21, 2007 11:34 pm
- Forum: Good Word Suggestions
- Topic: Request for assistance
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- Views: 18529
Here's a website with a thread that goes into too many food names to list again... but I know many of us here would enjoy reading it.
Funny Food Names
Funny Food Names
- Tue Feb 06, 2007 10:21 pm
- Forum: Good Word Suggestions
- Topic: Impetrate
- Replies: 7
- Views: 11549
- Tue Feb 06, 2007 10:13 pm
- Forum: Good Word Discussion
- Topic: GLOAT
- Replies: 5
- Views: 10536
- Sat Feb 03, 2007 9:08 pm
- Forum: Good Word Suggestions
- Topic: overweening
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overweening
“The overweening self-respect of conceited men relieves others from the duty of respecting them at all.” ~ Henry Ward Beecher overweening 1340, from prp. of overwenen "be conceited, presume," from O.E. ofer - wenian , from ofer + "over" + wenian (see ween ). And for those who are...
- Sat Feb 03, 2007 8:47 pm
- Forum: Good Word Suggestions
- Topic: for good
- Replies: 23
- Views: 44501
- Mon Jan 22, 2007 5:55 pm
- Forum: Good Word Discussion
- Topic: FRANGIBLE
- Replies: 4
- Views: 9110