...iller-xkcd-every-majors-terrible/ Xkcd's 'Every Major's Terrible' Is Now A Real Song].
:''Unbearable'' and ''terrible'' rhyme for people who have the {{w|English-language vowel changes before historic /r/#Mary–marry–merry merger|Mary
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...by {{w|Edgar Allan Poe}}, one of the most popular pieces of poetry in the English language. The comic quotes the first four lines of the work, in which the {
This unexpected turn reflects the ambiguity of the verb "to rap" in English. According to the [http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/rap Merriam-We
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...pparently basing this desire on the fact that Irons, a classically trained English actor, portrayed Scar, the main antagonist in the 1994 Disney animated feat
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...ction. The fictional person believes a circular map is more fitting to the real Earth's three-dimensional spherical nature because both are round. This bel
...nnot be offended by being referred to by the wrong pronouns. In {{w|Middle English}} 'they' and 'their' were {{w|Singular they|accepted genderless pronouns th
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...the NHC has named the hurricanes using random words out of the {{w|Oxford English Dictionary}} (OED). The humor here is intrinsic: "Hurricane Eggbeater" is a
...all points on a surface is an {{w|uncountable set}} (as is the set of all real numbers). {{w|Cantor diagonalization}} is a famous proof that it is impo
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...ony of finding the incorrect explanation (the analogy) interesting and the real explanation (the mathematics) boring.
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...{{w|superscript}}.<font color="#36b"><ref>Aha! I fooled you and this is a real ref tag! However, there are no references.</ref><sup>[3][4]</sup></font> Wh
...Latin words. -Ax is also, specifically, the root of the -acious ending in English, as in "audacious" or (appropriately) [http://www.merriam-webster.com/dicti
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...ternet and for this work, he was awarded the 2002 IEEE Internet Award. His real name is Stephen D. Crocker.
*Dr. {{w|Stephen Wolff}}, spelled differently than Steve, but the same as the real name of Steve Crocker. He is one of the many fathers of the Internet, mainl
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...he latter, contains identical characters in the 2nd and 4th positions. (In English translations of the text, this is the part rendered as "LORD" in capitals.)
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...quent ads are those that mention "Play free games!". While these sites are real, they tend to be collections of Flash-based games taken from other sites fr
...|| The shoot-'em-up game "Zero Wing" on SEGA's Genesis console features an English translation so terrible it has long been a source of memetic humor. The lin
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...he Chinese game Happy Farm was more popular at the time. This strikes many English-speaking xkcd readers as odd, because Farmville is much more famous, leadin
...w|Facebook}}''' is a social networking site that allows people to meet old real−life friends and make new friends that share similar interests. One of it
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...tch</code>, and <code>Throwable</code>. These can refer to actions in the real-life game, but are also keywords in the Java language that are used for {{w
...throwing and catching the <code>Ball</code> object. Note that unlike the real game, this program actually has the same person both throwing and catch the
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...the pressure at the {{w|Inner_core|Earth's core}} and the width of the {{w|English Channel}}.
...s \frac{\text{Prius combined EPA gas mileage}}{\text{Minimum width of the English Channel}} = \pi</math>
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...o decode the book. A cut out from the book is depicted in the first frame (real or similar).
...d Dragons. They speak in a somewhat outdated English. The reference to the real plant {{w|Aconitum|Wolfsbane}} could also be a reference to another invente
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...ical to intellectual, and east-west corresponds to one from web-focused to real-life-focused. The map also bears a slight resemblance to {{w|South East Asi
...map. Left is "Focus on Real Life," labelled "IRL," an abbreviation for "In Real Life." Right is "Focus on Web," labelled ".com." Up is "Practicals," labell
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...do Americans hate soccer? || Soccer, or (association) football in British English, is rather unpopular in the USA compared to most other regions of the world
|Why aren't Pokémon real?||Pokémon are fantasized creatures that were designed to produce an intere
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...the Exhibitionist, all of which have negative connotations in contemporary English. That the viewer is encouraged to identify negatively with these four posit
...that he is usually the Philosopher. Also, “Philosopher” in vernacular English is neutrally valenced, potentially having the ability to expound either wis
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It appeared that Randall created new panels in near real time, as user suggestions to dialog were submitted around the release of th
...clusive. Some of the options that were there very early were in quite poor English. Later, the same idea was still there, but in a more refined sentence. Howe
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:::Real value $27,370
::$1,000/yr for 30 years (inflation-adjusted) at a 4% real return (long-term stock + dividend average) $56,080
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|"
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real name remains unknown. While he was estimated to be in his mid-40s, his prec
...otiable American currency," it is phrased in a way not typical of American
English.</p><p>The phrase "You're tearing me apart!" originally appeared in ''{{w|R
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...tion from the database. In the library example, one might select (in plain English) all books written by a certain author or published after a certain date, e
The percentage of people lit appears to approximately correspond to real demographic data: note, 5 of the 10 characters are female; the median world
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[[:File:pixels-time-turner.png|This panel]] jokes that if the real life JK Rowling had a fictional time-turner which worked, she would have go
...aning of the word "hydrant", a pipe which supplies water (derived from the English root ''hydro-'' meaning ''relating to water'', which is in turn from the Gr
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...ken the underlying equivalence relation to heart, and (over)applying it to real life, genuinely judging sets to be identical if they all contain N objects.
...or example, has both sinij and goluboj to describe different blues that in English are both blue. Japanese, as another example, has blue and green together (k
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...comic books and other fiction (though unfortunately, this does not work in real life{{Citation needed}}). It's possible the plutonium is even in her womb,
The English physicist {{w|Henry Moseley}} discovered the law relating the {{w|atomic nu
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...in a south-top map. Such a map is, of course, almost completely useless in real life, because it completely distorts the relative positioning of the landma
...n this world map, a channel now exists between the UK and North Korea (the real world's South Korea) there could obviously have been many wars for the domi
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|The {{w|Roanoke Colony}} was the first English attempt to establish a permanent settlement in the New World. The colony of
...f the creature in the film - but contains so many features not seen on any real ape (for instance, dark palms and hairy breasts) that few scientists take i
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|Old-English style message for "buffer overrun" instead of more modern language. There w
|virtual memory got too real
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| 30 years ($1,000/yr at a 4% real return (long-term stock + dividend average)
! rowspan="4"|Real estate
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...nd a vocabulary of the 1,000 (or ''ten hundred'') most common words in the English language. Randall found his own method to determine which words would go on
...mic). But it was far from being a small or normal comic! It was the first "real" game comic released on xkcd (albeit not the first [[:Category:Interactive
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...a star in the constellation Orion. It is commonly (at least by speakers of English) pronounced as "beetlejuice". {{w|Beetlejuice}}, however is a film directed
...ng the same as how the {{w|Uranus (mythology)|Greek god}} is pronounced in English) is preferred by astronomers, but both are commonly heard. Similarly to Dun
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The '''{{w}}''' are an English {{w|girl group}} formed in 1994, consisting of "Scary Spice", "Sporty Spice
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...d phrases are replaced with synonyms which are chosen from the most common English words. This renders ordinary words like "rocket" into "flying space car", o
! Real Title
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...sual data set for people to play with. This is obviously not going to be a real random sample of people, but in the interest of getting cooler data, if you
...hese words don’t appear in any of the following dictionaries: the Oxford English Dictionary, the New Oxford American Dictionary, Wiktionary, or Dictionary.c
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...ssible to mistake the two words when spoken in the majority of dialects of English.
...the two main pieces of the ''Titanic'' wreck, which, as it likely would in real life, garners media coverage as a 'historic salvage'. The salvage seems to
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...acquired or built a new high powered {{w|flashlight}} ("torch" in British English), which he wants to demonstrate to [[Megan]]. When Cueball refers to older
:Cueball: Real bright, though.
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**There is both a giant octopus' arm (marked as ''not real'') and a very large octopus under the ship. The shape of the octopus is the
...ide]] - a direct hoverboard reference, and complaint that they are not yet real (only [http://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/0/01/1608_1048x1095y_Two_hove
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...tletext = SOUND DOGS MAKE: [BARKING] [HISSING] [LIGHTSABER NOISES] [FLUENT ENGLISH] [SWEARING]
The comic might also be a joke on real-life controls, physical or virtual, often having no clear "default" value.
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...to the {{w|imperial system}} as previously used in most of the rest of the English speaking world. They have many commonalites, and both systems have temperat
...ind most convenient? This is probably the reason he ends up not giving any real answer, as giving the answer in Celsius would make him a bad friend. Panick
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...e as the host mentions that people keep asking her whether or not she is a real astronomer.
...th how to zero in on a word and its definition. For a typical and expected English dictionary (unless she made further errors) the word "Astronomer" is actual
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...hat are created with the pairs. See the whole [[#List of real duos|list of real duos]] as well as the [[#List of alternative duos|list of alternative duos]
...though this exact combo would not be possible in the xkcd version, as the "real universe" combo takes the second names from two duos rather than the first
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...h/podium podium] and [http://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/english/lectern lectern] in Oxford Learners Dictionaries. In medieval universities,
The comic is playing on a stereotypical politician, without any real beliefs, here represented by Cueball, but they want to appear to stand for
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...sense, as Markov processes are probabalistic and have no knowledge of how English semantics work.
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...tes nor Canada existed yet).{{citation needed}} Also, glaciers don't speak English, or any language for that matter.{{Citation needed}}
...rica (although Megan, immediately underneath, does note that this is not a real fact). As the writing stated that ''Pokemon go extinct'' this can also be s
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...ws the first part of a dictionary entry on the word ''Reductionism''. In a real dictionary like [http://www.dictionary.com/ Dictionary.com] an [http://www.
...ery letter of the {{w|Latin alphabet}} (the writing system used by the {{w|English language}} and many other languages) is ultimately derived from {{w|Egyptia
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...ee the explanation of the next comic about the strange fact that it speaks English). Megan points it towards a spider sitting in its web; the Sphere is awestr
...avel, and they decided to use time travel the first time to go back to see real spiders on Earth. This also tells us that they are from so far into the fut
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...found in their entirety). And they do not know whether they even represent real events or myths. One of the two is indeed a myth, as it is about a man buil
...ve come from Earth (maybe travelled away), they may just have retained the English language. But given the fact that young people today probably would not und
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All of these words can be looked up in the English version of Wikipedia, but only a few are {{w|common noun}}s, three of them
**Enough tiles (...): Are there enough tiles in the standards English version of Scrabble to write the word?
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...ome of these, as well as including many silly names that simply sound like real British towns to an American ear. A protractor is shown off the coast of th
Note that in British English, the correct spelling of “labeled” is ‘labelled’.
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...s are. The "two thumbs" is a reference to a well known type of jokes among English speakers. One of the most frequent forms is one person interrupting another
...unter and become mired in quicksand than for a real individual to do so as real quicksand is a rare occurrence in most climates on Earth.
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|colspan=4| {{w|David Attenborough}} is an English broadcaster and naturalist, who produced a documentary series ''{{w|The Lif
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