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Re-Up Definition

Had to hit Urban Dictionary because i’ve been seeing and hearing re-up a bunch lately and wasn’t sure what it meant[ READ MORE ]

What Kind of English Do You Speak?

  • November 21st, 2006
  • Posted in language

Your Linguistic Profile: 60% General American English 20% Yankee 10% Dixie 5% Upper Midwestern 0% Midwestern But some of those questions didn’t have an answer i’d actually use. Some of them i’ve never even heard of. I think they need to test for more varations like Valley and Ebonics. What Kind of American English Do [ READ MORE ]

urbanup.com

Here’s an easy way i just discovered to find definitions at voice-of-the-people pop slang site Urban Dictionary. Just use the word you want to look up as the subdomain at the address urbanup.com. For example, the address milkshake.urbanup.com would look up the word milkshake. Each user-submitted definition is permalinked like this, with an ID number [ READ MORE ]

Capital G

And for the record, Googling is capitalized[ READ MORE ]

Beautiful Contradiction

“The name VR6 comes from a combination of V and the German word Reihenmotor. The combination of the two can be roughly translated as ‘in-line V.’” VR6 Technical Information. via via via via[ READ MORE ]

The Years