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Question of the day: What is your favourite word right now and why?
Before my husband goes to sleep, he puts on his little cosmos videos and I understand none of it except for the word spaghettification. It makes me giggle because I know what that means and they could've named it anything else but they chose that name.
Renuneration lol
Right now it's chaos.
I have to keep thinking it and repeating to remember and reinforce becoming organised in my thinking and behaviour
Epitome. I used to pronounce it as epi-tome (epi like epi-pen, tome as in a book), because I'd read so many books as a kid/teen. I'd heard the word spoken, but thought that the spoken word was spelled "ipitomie" or "ipitomy".
I was a young adult when I realised they are, in fact, the same word. It's now my favourite haha
In a similar sense I've got provolone rolling around my head but coming to terms that if I say it correctly with my accent it sounds bogan as fuck - provoloney - cos I can't roll my r's good.
I can't roll my R's either, unless I vibrate my soft palate - which I suspect isn't how it's actually done ๐
I did read "provolone" as "pro-vah-lone". The em-FAR-sis on the wrong sil-LAH-bless
Idempotent. It's a best-practice methodology for writing code. Run this code, it determines whether the thing needs to be done and does it. Run it over and over, and it will do no harm. It can be automated to run every 5 minutes to only do the thing when it is needed.
A real world picture to explain the concept:
Push either of the buttons over and over and over. You'll either turn the machine on/off, or do nothing.
I'd been doing this for years before I knew the word for it.
I love "albeit". Discovered it in an article about The X-Files back when I was 11, putting magazine articles on my bedroom wall.