Definition of Abortion

...according to a Planned Parenthood pamphlet in 1952.

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Bob- palindromes by Weird Al

All lyrics are palindromes- not one huge palindrome, just one after the other.

Dekker on Words:

"As storytellers, we must be slaves to bringing ideas and story to life in the imagination of others. Words can be either magnificent tools in helping us achieve this end, or blunt obstacles to that same end. Either way, we must remember that they are only that. Conduits for the exchange of ideas. The wiring that allows for transference, like in a computer processor, hence the comparison of language and mathematics."

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A Rule of English

"I" before "E", except after "C"
or when sounding like "A,"
as in "neighbor" and "weigh,"
and on weekends and holidays
and all throughout May
and you'll always be wrong
no matter what you say.

from Brian Regan

Humility definition

Humility= suspecting yourself first

Borrowed from Dave Harvey, When Sinners Say "I Do"

Dwarves

The earliest plural of dwarf is dwarfs.

Dwarves was popularized by Tolkien.

Thanks to Arnold Zwicky via Abraham Piper.

Did you know...

...that human languages vary in expanse from the 85 consonants of the Ubyxian language and the 55 vowels of the Sedang tongue to the Rotokas language which includes only 11 letters and the 2 vowels of Abkhazian?

* from In the Beginning Was Information, by Dr. Werner Gitt

New (old) word-

Worth noting, if only to iterate my amusement. I read in The Return of Sherlock Holmes the use of the word " ambuscade"- n. an ambush. Quite nifty- I shall need to find a need to use it.