Ridiculous Words Lacking from the Google Chrome Dictionary
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@Dashrender said:
@scottalanmiller said:
Firefox Dictionary Fail: Tilapia
WTF FF!!
It knows it's a dirty fish and wants nothing to do with it
Might be a 'dirty' fish,.. but it is a robust fish that is farmed in many Hydro and Aquaponic systems.
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@g.jacobse said:
Might be a 'dirty' fish,.. but it is a robust fish that is farmed in many Hydro and Aquaponic systems.
Because they have effective poo.
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Another one from Firefox: attritioning
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Another one missing from Firefox: idempotence.
Important word in IT and in mathematics.
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Firefox missing: tilapia
Seriously, how can that be!!
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Firefox: impactful
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@scottalanmiller said:
Firefox missing: tilapia
Seriously, how can that be!!
Did you check to see if the americanized misspelling 'tiliapa' is in there? Or 'chipolte'?
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@RojoLoco I'm an American, and I've never seen tilapia spelled tiliapa 8-)... If you have, maybe there's a bunch of folks making a typo somewhere, lol.
I've seen Chipotle spelled both ways here... which one is right?
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@dafyre said:
@RojoLoco I'm an American, and I've never seen tilapia spelled tiliapa 8-)... If you have, maybe there's a bunch of folks making a typo somewhere, lol.
I've seen Chipotle spelled both ways here... which one is right?
Well, I did grow up in Georgia, so I should have said Southern American...
and the correct spelling is chipotle. The 'tl' consonant cluster is indicative of the old Aztec Nahuatl language, before the influence of European Spanish.
(see, there's a 'tl' at the end of Nahuatl...) -
@RojoLoco said:
@dafyre said:
@RojoLoco I'm an American, and I've never seen tilapia spelled tiliapa 8-)... If you have, maybe there's a bunch of folks making a typo somewhere, lol.
I've seen Chipotle spelled both ways here... which one is right?
Well, I did grow up in Georgia, so I should have said ...I am a Southern American for all y'all who didn't know...
8-) Emphasis mine.
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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.
