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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)
A famous example for lexical ambiguity in Persian is the following sentence: [42] بخشش لازم نیست اعدامش کنید. It can be read either as: بخشش! لازم نیست اعدامش کنید; which means "Forgiveness! no need to execute him/her" Or as: بخشش لازم نیست! اعدامش کنید
aficionado [citation needed] ag agriculture (informal) [8] aggro aggravation or aggression [9] agit-prop agitational propaganda [10] alky an alcoholic amp ampere [11] amphetamine (as in "amped up") [citation needed] amplifier [11] amputation or amputee [12] ampoule [12] amplify [citation needed] app application [13] arco arcology [citation ...
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In Unicode, characters can have a unique name. A character can also have one or more alias names. An alias name can be an abbreviation, a C0 or C1 control name, a correction, an alternate name or a figment. An alias too is unique over all names and aliases, and therefore identifying.
The following is a list of English words without rhymes, called refractory rhymes—that is, a list of words in the English language that rhyme with no other English word. . The word "rhyme" here is used in the strict sense, called a perfect rhyme, that the words are pronounced the same from the vowel of the main stressed syllable onwa
A heterogram (from hetero-, meaning 'different', + -gram, meaning 'written') is a word, phrase, or sentence in which no letter of the alphabet occurs more than once. The terms isogram and nonpattern word have also been used to mean the same thing. [1] [2] [3] It is not clear who coined or popularized the term "heterogram".
[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 ...