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The Historical Thesaurus of English (HTE) is the largest thesaurus in the world. It is called a historical thesaurus as it arranges the whole vocabulary of English, from the earliest written records in Old English to the present, according to the first documented occurrence of a word in the entire history of the English language.
The word nikoli, when stressed on the second syllable, means "never", when stressed on the first it is the locative case of Nikola, i.e. Nicholas; Spanish – cuando las vacas vuelen ("when cows fly") or cuando los chanchos vuelen ("when pigs fly"). Its most common use is in response to an affirmative statement, for example "I saw Mrs. Smith ...
The original edition had 15,000 words and each successive edition has been larger, [3] with the most recent edition (the eighth) containing 443,000 words. [6] The book is updated regularly and each edition is heralded as a gauge to contemporary terms; but each edition keeps true to the original classifications established by Roget. [2]
Facetiously is among the few other words directly attested in OED with single occurrences of all six vowels (counting y as a vowel). The longest word without descenders or ascenders is overnumerousnesses. The longest single palindromic word in English is rotavator, another name for a rotary tiller for breaking and aerating soil.
The NWS said it believes it was the first Tornado Warning issued in the city of San Francisco since records have been kept. The threat passed about 20 minutes later with no initial reports of any ...
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Shirlene (later Colcord), was the first of the quintuplets to marry. She was also the first to die, on 18 June 2019, aged 53. [38] The Braham quintuplets (born 31 December 1967) were the first quintuplets to be born in Australia. They were conceived naturally [36] and born to Pat and Roger Braham of Tenterfield, New South Wales. In birth order ...