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Rhys Benjamin wrote:audios
Usage example?
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Charlie Reams wrote:
Rhys Benjamin wrote:audios
Usage example?
Audios, amigo!
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Michael Wallace wrote:
Charlie Reams wrote:
Rhys Benjamin wrote:audios
Usage example?
Audios, amigo!
plural of audio.

Also I've put it through here :arrow:
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Rhys Benjamin wrote:
Also I've put it through here :arrow:
I put in ENTRESOLN, and it gave a 7.
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Rhys Benjamin wrote:plural of audio.
So what's the usage example? When would you use the word?
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Charlie Reams wrote:
Rhys Benjamin wrote:plural of audio.
So what's the usage example? When would you use the word?
"Rhys thinks audios is a word, however he is wrong."
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Charlie Reams wrote:
Rhys Benjamin wrote:plural of audio.
So what's the usage example? When would you use the word?
A sound signal: lost the audios during the broadcasts.

When you're talking about a split-screen, each screen has it's own audio. Pluralise it.

"On Windows Movie Maker, what are you going to do with the audios?"
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Charlie Reams wrote:
Rhys Benjamin wrote:plural of audio.
So what's the usage example? When would you use the word?
Hey, we're hungry why don't you go and audios some pizza!
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Rhys Benjamin wrote:A sound signal: lost the audios during the broadcasts.

When you're talking about a split-screen, each screen has it's own audio. Pluralise it.

"On Windows Movie Maker, what are you going to do with the audios?"
Yeah, that seems weird to me. Each person has their own health, but you don't say "how are your family's healths?".
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Charlie Reams wrote:
Rhys Benjamin wrote:A sound signal: lost the audios during the broadcasts.

When you're talking about a split-screen, each screen has it's own audio. Pluralise it.

"On Windows Movie Maker, what are you going to do with the audios?"
Yeah, that seems weird to me. Each person has their own health, but you don't say "how are your family's healths?".
In the movie world.
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Rhys Benjamin wrote:
Charlie Reams wrote:
Rhys Benjamin wrote:A sound signal: lost the audios during the broadcasts.

When you're talking about a split-screen, each screen has it's own audio. Pluralise it.

"On Windows Movie Maker, what are you going to do with the audios?"
Yeah, that seems weird to me. Each person has their own health, but you don't say "how are your family's healths?".
In the movie world.
Have you worked in the movie world for long?
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Charlie Reams wrote:Yeah, that seems weird to me. Each person has their own health, but you don't say "how are your family's healths?".
Well of course it's ridiculous. You don't say "leafs" do you? It's "how are your family's healves?".
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Well I just hope AUDIOS and AUREOLING are in the OED3.
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Matt Morrison wrote:
Charlie Reams wrote:Yeah, that seems weird to me. Each person has their own health, but you don't say "how are your family's healths?".
Well of course it's ridiculous. You don't say "leafs" do you? It's "how are your family's healves?".
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duplexing^, as in what the big copier at work does.
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Andrew Feist wrote:duplexing^, as in what the big copier at work does.
Doesn't it just make duplexes by copying?
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Select one of these audios.
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Rhys Benjamin wrote:Select one of these audios.
links pls
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minused or minussed. Can't be bothered checking to see if it's been discussed before.
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sluttier! How is that not there? The Oxford lexicographers have never been to Worcester, I can tell you :lol:
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Rhys Benjamin wrote:Select one of these audios.
I can't see any audios to select. Did you forget to put them in?
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Jon Corby wrote:
Rhys Benjamin wrote:Select one of these audios.
I can't see any audios to select. Did you forget to put them in?
It was an example of audios.
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I'm really surprised that RATIONALS^ isn't in. Like the set of rational numbers. (If it were, I would have beaten my Goatdown Letters Attack PB by 12 points!)
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Miriam Nussbaum wrote:I'm really surprised that RATIONALS^ isn't in. Like the set of rational numbers. (If it were, I would have beaten my Goatdown Letters Attack PB by 12 points!)
And if it were, Chris' last offered word in his heats would have been valid.
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FALSIE. Susie mentioned only the other day that FALSIES were pads for putting in bras, but apparently you can't have only one of them. What if you've got one breast smaller than the other?

And yes, RATIONALS really ought to be in the dictionary. The argument against inclusion could be that the noun is "rational number" rather than "rational", but "the rationals" is widely used to refer to the set of all rational numbers, and I'm sure I remember using it in that way at school a decade ago.
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Graeme Cole wrote:FALSIE. Susie mentioned only the other day that FALSIES were pads for putting in bras, but apparently you can't have only one of them. What if you've got one breast smaller than the other?

And yes, RATIONALS really ought to be in the dictionary. The argument against inclusion could be that the noun is "rational number" rather than "rational", but "the rationals" is widely used to refer to the set of all rational numbers, and I'm sure I remember using it in that way at school a decade ago.
The question in both cases is whether the words are really in common usage. In the case of rationals I feel like the answer is yes, at least as much as many of the obscure scientific terms which have made the cut, but I'd have to concede that they're the ones with the zillion-word database.
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James Hall wrote:Mauves
As in: The ODE mauves in mysterious ways.
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Gavin Chipper wrote:As in: The ODE mauves in mysterious ways.
Hehe nice one.

You can surely get reds and greens and things, so why not mauves?
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James Hall wrote:You can surely get reds and greens and things, so why not mauves?
The justification Susie has given on the show is that 'primary' colours like reds and greens have various shades, while colours like mauve are a shade already and don't have sub-shades. (That's a paraphrase.)

[Edit - And I dare say reds and greens are allowable for snooker as well - "he potted three reds followed by three greens", for example.]
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abrasions - where more than one abrasion happens.
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Rhys Benjamin wrote:abrations - where more than one abration happens.
Might be worth investigating why abration isn't in either!
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Ian Volante wrote:
Rhys Benjamin wrote:abrations - where more than one abration happens.
Might be worth investigating why abration isn't in either!
it is though.
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Rhys Benjamin wrote:
Ian Volante wrote:
Rhys Benjamin wrote:abrations - where more than one abration happens.
Might be worth investigating why abration isn't in either!
it is though.
It's not :? ABRASION (as in scraping) is in, although it's a mass noun and therefore not pluralised frequently enough to warrant entry into the dictionary. Abration (and any plural thereof) is a misspelling, sorry :(

I know it's bad luck (and happens to me often enough) but you'll know for next time :)
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Lesley Hines wrote:ABRASION ... a mass noun and therefore not pluralised frequently enough to warrant entry into the dictionary
Does ABRASION really have no countable subsense in the ODE? I can't check in my ODE2r because ... it's still in its cellophane wrapper. Daft, I know.

FWIW the NODE did include the countable sense, i.e. an area damaged by scraping or wearing away. Ditto the COD until its non-appearance in the celebrated 10th edition.
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ADHAN and ADHANS, the Islamic call to prayer.
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Oliver Garner wrote:ADHAN and ADHANS, the Islamic call to prayer.
The usual English version is AZAN :geek:
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Clive Brooker wrote:I can't check in my ODE2r because ... it's still in its cellophane wrapper. Daft, I know.
You could take out your OED and your OCD in one fell swoop. ;)
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Gavin Chipper wrote:
Clive Brooker wrote:I can't check in my ODE2r because ... it's still in its cellophane wrapper. Daft, I know.
You could take out your OED and your OCD in one fell swoop. ;)
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ETIOLATED but not ETIOLATES? A mistake surely?
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Jonathan Wynn wrote:ETIOLATED but not ETIOLATES? A mistake surely?
Not really. Something can be unkempt but no one unkemps it. Adjectives don't necessarily produce verbs.
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Charlie Reams wrote:
Jonathan Wynn wrote:ETIOLATED but not ETIOLATES? A mistake surely?
Not really. Something can be unkempt but no one unkemps it. Adjectives don't necessarily produce verbs.
Don't know about the "real" dictionary; my dictionary only contains etiolate as a verb and not an adjective.
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Charlie Reams wrote:
Jonathan Wynn wrote:ETIOLATED but not ETIOLATES? A mistake surely?
Not really. Something can be unkempt but no one unkemps it. Adjectives don't necessarily produce verbs.
Thanks well I guess that would make sense yeah, it's just that it appears 'Etiolate' is a verb, at least according to google, meaning to "make weak or stunt growth in a plant", or "make pale or sickly", and the example given by google even says "alcohol ETIOLATES your skin". Still, who knows, guess there must be some explanation :shock:
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Andrew Feist wrote:Don't know about the "real" dictionary; my dictionary only contains etiolate as a verb and not an adjective.
3rd edition has ETIOLATED (adj.) and ETIOLATION (noun) but not etiolate^.
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Genocides - Armenian Genocide + Rwandan Genocide = 2 genocides
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Thomas Cappleman wrote:Genocides - Armenian Genocide + Rwandan Genocide = 2 genocides
Yeah, I think this is a mistake. Can someone check the definition?
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Charlie Reams wrote:
Thomas Cappleman wrote:Genocides - Armenian Genocide + Rwandan Genocide = 2 genocides
Yeah, I think this is a mistake. Can someone check the definition?
It's given as a mass noun. I think the fact that Genocide is capitalised in both of Thomas' examples suggests that individual acts (the countable sense) are capitalised generally.
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Kai Laddiman wrote:
Charlie Reams wrote:
Thomas Cappleman wrote:Genocides - Armenian Genocide + Rwandan Genocide = 2 genocides
Yeah, I think this is a mistake. Can someone check the definition?
It's given as a mass noun.
Yeah I know, but it seems like it should be covered by the "actions" clause (I think the example given is CIRCUMCISIONS). Depends on the wording of the definition.
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genocide noun (mass noun) the deliberate killing of a large group of people, especially those of a particular nation or ethnic group.

I would say yes to the plural, for sure, it makes sense. But my record on these things is not great.
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Oh yeh, sorry, completely forgot about this.
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Good call, Thomas. Post this in the "Countmax errors" thread and I'll eventually fix it maybe perhaps.
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I'm surprised LIGHTBULB isn't there. There must be a joke there somewhere.
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Gavin Chipper wrote:I'm surprised LIGHTBULB isn't there.
What did it look like when you realised?
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Charlie Reams wrote:
Gavin Chipper wrote:I'm surprised LIGHTBULB isn't there.
What did it look like when you realised?
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Plaices...

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Rhys Benjamin wrote:Plaices...

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Rhys Benjamin wrote:Plaices...

you know those fish...
Plural is PLAICE, go with SPECIAL instead.
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Tenably. with tenable, untenable and untenably valid seems like tenably should be valid.
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