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Jan. 17th, 2011 11:03 pmWhat is it called when you throw toilet paper on a house?
TP-ing
What is the bug that when you touch it, curls into a ball?
Pillbug
What is the bubbly carbonated drink called?
Coke (even if it's some other flavor)
What do you call gym shoes?
Tennis shoes (or tennies, for short)
What do you say to address a group of people?
Hello
What do you call the kind of spider that has an oval-shaped body and extremely long legs?
Harvestman
What do you call your grandparents?
When I was a kid, Granddaddy and Bubba, which is apparently Yiddish. I don't know how I picked that up, as I don't recall ever being around anyone who was Jewish. When I was older, it was Granddad and Grandmother. My grandfather hated to be called "grandpa".
What do you call the wheeled contraption in which you carry groceries at the supermarket?
Shopping cart
What do you call it when rain falls while the sun is shining?
Rain falling while the sun is shining
What is the thing you change the TV channel with?
Remote
What do you call the area between the two sides of a boulevard?
Median
Main seating furniture in the living room?
Sofa, sometimes couch
TP-ing
What is the bug that when you touch it, curls into a ball?
Pillbug
What is the bubbly carbonated drink called?
Coke (even if it's some other flavor)
What do you call gym shoes?
Tennis shoes (or tennies, for short)
What do you say to address a group of people?
Hello
What do you call the kind of spider that has an oval-shaped body and extremely long legs?
Harvestman
What do you call your grandparents?
When I was a kid, Granddaddy and Bubba, which is apparently Yiddish. I don't know how I picked that up, as I don't recall ever being around anyone who was Jewish. When I was older, it was Granddad and Grandmother. My grandfather hated to be called "grandpa".
What do you call the wheeled contraption in which you carry groceries at the supermarket?
Shopping cart
What do you call it when rain falls while the sun is shining?
Rain falling while the sun is shining
What is the thing you change the TV channel with?
Remote
What do you call the area between the two sides of a boulevard?
Median
Main seating furniture in the living room?
Sofa, sometimes couch
Writer's Block: Sounds Good to Me
Feb. 15th, 2009 07:17 pm[Error: unknown template qotd]"Groovy" always makes me snicker.
Donde esta el queso?
Oct. 4th, 2008 06:48 pmYour result for The Languages Test...
100% French! 100% German! 100% Italian! 100% Spanish! 80% English!
Look at the percentages above. The higher those percentages the higher your basic knowledge of those languages. Getting higher than %0% on any of these languages is great - it means you got at least 3/5 of the questions for that language correct!
Word usage statistics
Mar. 27th, 2006 09:11 pmPlaying around with the Word Count Analyzer plugin for ljArchive. Out of 607 posts...
The longest word I've ever used in my journal: phenylpropanolamine (19 letters)
The longest non-chemical word I've used: "disproportionately" (18 letters)
The longest verb I've used: "decommissioning" (15 letters)
Number of words 10 letters or longer used more than 10 times: 16 (connection, information, especially, temperature, construction, California, appointment, convention, discovered, completely, unfortunately, apparently, grandfather, grandmother, fortunately, everything)
Number of times "unfortunately" is used: 24
Number of times "fortunately" is used: 37
Most commonly used word: "the" (3595 times)
Most commonly used word not counting commonplace words: "today" (137 times)
Longest word I've ever used (in context) online: Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia (36 letters)
The longest word I've ever used in my journal: phenylpropanolamine (19 letters)
The longest non-chemical word I've used: "disproportionately" (18 letters)
The longest verb I've used: "decommissioning" (15 letters)
Number of words 10 letters or longer used more than 10 times: 16 (connection, information, especially, temperature, construction, California, appointment, convention, discovered, completely, unfortunately, apparently, grandfather, grandmother, fortunately, everything)
Number of times "unfortunately" is used: 24
Number of times "fortunately" is used: 37
Most commonly used word: "the" (3595 times)
Most commonly used word not counting commonplace words: "today" (137 times)
Longest word I've ever used (in context) online: Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia (36 letters)
Long, hard, and full of....
Aug. 6th, 2005 09:30 pmIs it pronounced sub-mare-in-er or sub-marine-er?
I've always thought it was the former.
I've always thought it was the former.
