Ridiculous Words Lacking from the Google Chrome Dictionary
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FF: unaffordable
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@RojoLoco said:
Well, I did grow up in Georgia, so I should have said Southern American...
Not to be confused with South American.
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FF: actioned
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FF: amongst
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Opera: habanero (wtf?)
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@scottalanmiller Correct usage in a sentence? When would you use amongst instead of among?
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@dafyre said:
@scottalanmiller Correct usage in a sentence? When would you use amongst instead of among?
They are interchangeable. It's from Middle English c1200
He frolicked amongst the daises.
Very common in England, lessso in American English in recent times. It's generally seen as more formal.
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@dafyre said:
@scottalanmiller Correct usage in a sentence? When would you use amongst instead of among?
'Amongst' is absolutely a word in both American and British English, amongst many others.
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Similar to alongst. But amongst is a lot more common.
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@scottalanmiller said:
Similar to alongst. But amongst is a lot more common.
Quite true. I was just curious as I tend to default to among since that is what I was brought up saying, lol.
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I think that I was brought up on amongst. It sounds so natural to me. I couldn't believe that the dictionary on FF didn't have it.
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@scottalanmiller Hence the reason it wound up o nthe Ridiculous Words Missing list, lol.
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@dafyre said:
@scottalanmiller Correct usage in a sentence? When would you use amongst instead of among?
Australian use of the word
Let's get amongst it! -
How does one use that in context?
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Did anyone else read this thread and immediately think of Blackadder? Blackadder
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FF: polenta
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Canadian
FF has it, Chrome did not!!
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Not sure if this was added yet... unassociated
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That's a pretty rare one. Several dictionaries don't even have it, oddly enough.
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Unrefrigerated
Seriously? Oh well, I guess everything at Google must refrigerated regardless of requirements.
