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  2. List of commonly misused English words - Wikipedia

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    (Antibiotics could still be used to cure illnesses, but they are no longer needed because a better pill has been invented.) Standard: The security system has two levels of redundancy. Non-standard: Over-use of antibiotics risks making them redundant. (This should read: over-use of antibiotics risks making them ineffective)

  3. Wikipedia:Short description - Wikipedia

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    be shortno longer than is needed to fulfill its functions effectively More than 80% of short descriptions use fewer than 40 characters (including spaces). Fewer than 3% of short descriptions are longer than 60 characters, and short descriptions longer than 100 characters will be flagged for attention.

  4. URL shortening - Wikipedia

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    On Twitter and some instant messaging services, there is a limit to the number of characters a message can carry – however, Twitter now shortens links automatically using its own URL shortening service, t.co, so there is no need to use a separate URL shortening service just to shorten URLs in a tweet. On other such services, using a URL ...

  5. List of retronyms - Wikipedia

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    [citation needed] Seventy-eight (78) rpm records Before the advent of 33 + 1 ⁄ 3 rpm and 45 rpm vinyl records, these were known simply as records, phonograph records or gramophone records. short file name (officially referred to as 8.3 filename) before the advent of long filenames. FAT file systems only had 11 characters, three of which form ...

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  7. Unpaired word - Wikipedia

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    An unpaired word is one that, according to the usual rules of the language, would appear to have a related word but does not. [1] Such words usually have a prefix or suffix that would imply that there is an antonym , with the prefix or suffix being absent or opposite.

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  9. List of English-language expressions related to death

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    Reset character To die Euphemistic slang Refers to video games where "resetting one's character" involves deliberately killing them and letting them respawn or load from a save. Ride the pale horse [5] To die Euphemistic: In the Biblical passage Revelation 6:8, a pale horse is ridden by Death, one of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse.