...the screen below the glass. A typical feature noticed about the glass for real phones would be its strength, as in work phones for construction workers.
: A similar real advertisement regarding the chassis would be that it was {{w|waterproof}} d
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.... the {{w|Devonian}} is named after the {{w|ceremonial counties of England|English ceremonial county}} of {{w|Devon}} (aka Devonshire), while the {{w|Permian}
...not educated in the science) by just inserting dog breeds names instead of real names as no one remembers the names of all the microplates. An actual geolo
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...hat Black Hat is making up nicknames. Many of his suggestions are puns for real nicknames of other places.
...ndroupolis}}; {{w|Metropolis}} can either be a type of city, or one of the real or fictional cities bearing the name. Possibly a reference to The Phantom T
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...of the celestial objects are that similar as shown nor the orbits are. The real scales are shown in this table:
! real (in km)
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...rmal features of modern smartphones. "3-G acceleration", however, is not a real term, and doesn't describe any meaningful feature of a phone. It appears to
*The number 26 refers to the number of letters in the English alphabet
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...ng the user. For this reason, Twitter has removed verified checkmarks from real accounts of celebrities because of political controversies in the past. Exa
The last line of dialogue is a typical English sentence and has nothing to do with the Twitter Moments feature, which can
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...in Portuguese the proper plural would be "santos"). Under the most common English approach for making a plural noun, Santa would have a plural of "Santas". T
...succession from [[2003: Presidential Succession]] is used in place of the real one, Santa's place in the line would correspond to either a person who does
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...a [https://techcrunch.com/2018/02/15/iphone-text-bomb-ios-mac-crash-apple/ real vulnerability] in iOS and MacOS publicized a few days before the comic was
...nce "{{w|SQL}}" like "sequel", after SQL's predecessor "SEQUEL (Structured English Query Language)". The standard for SQL suggests that it should be pronounce
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...cter is commonly transcribed differently into British English and American English as ae and e respectively making a difference in spelling in words such as e
...ook of the same name}}, this is the first generation on the list to have a real, commonly accepted name, and was named as such due to being the generation
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..."Frank ... Johnson. That sounds like a real person! Let me just Google him real quick."
...hion designers ({{w|Oscar de la Renta}}), and so on. Most of the names are real people but a few are fictional characters, including some non-human charact
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Spell check> English (links to [[1069: Alphabet]]) and Colors (links to [https://blog.xkcd.com/2
...s first April Fools' comic [[404: Not Found]], which cannot be found, as a real comic by linking to it. Bookmarks/> Secret> Enable Dark Web adds the 'Dark
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...o more than say hiring a bricklayer as a doctor would actually make them a real doctor.
...human speech is broken into subject, object, and verb; for some reason in English we are capable of producing and comprehending speech without objects or ver
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Most English {{w|English compound|compound nouns}} can be constructed recursively. In many cases the
! Real term
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...aid conception's misalignment with reality. Though some trends reflect the real value of the numbers on the graph, i.e. 100 million larger than 10 million
...blem surrounding the intuitive grasping of large numbers: the flaws in the English words used for them. For instance, nothing about the word "million" suggest
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...graduates are entitled to delete one word of their choice from the Oxford English Dictionary.
...ps the intention is that such "deleted" words are in fact removed from the English language itself. For example, {{w|Lake Superior State University}} has an
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*The length of a light nanoseconds has been set to a 10th of its real value of about a foot. Thus is will not normally be used for any of the sta
***If another editor gets the message in English, please change this to the english version (may be the same though) and delete delete the google translate lin
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...they can process ({{w|Rollover (key)|rollover}}). Computer keyboards for English may be limited to as few as 3 simultaneous keys, whereas other languages or
...e typing instructor for the ''Mavis Beacon'' game, and is fictional, not a real person. Additionally, as a typing instructor, this person (even if she actu
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...hrases; however, some of these are rare or foreign enough that speakers of English don't always identify them correctly and pluralize the last word instead, e
...t ends the game is activated. Such a move can of course not be a part of a real basketball game, and more of a nod to the Golden State Warriors' reputation
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...ardrobe}}'', Narnia is accessible through a wardrobe in a residence in the English countryside. {{w|Mr. Tumnus}} is a {{w|faun}} in Narnia and the first chara
...text, where the slower passing of time was used to take on time-intensive real world problems, was also used for one of the comics in [[821: Five-Minute C
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...in a population. But a fringe theory holds that such memories are actually real, in some way related to either reality warping or alternate universes, leav
...el_sprouts_right/ there is an S] at the end of {{w|Brussels}} (at least in English, but not in Dutch, which is one of the official languages of Brussels/Belgi
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...OK|Many etymologies}} have been proposed to explain its origin. The Oxford English Dictionary and most other modern dictionaries say that it began in 1839 as
...McCulloch]], a Canadian Internet linguist. She focuses on trends in use of English words in online communications. Randall claims that he consulted with her o
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...[https://i.pinimg.com/236x/cb/a3/78/cba3788d5839c6f6dc24fcb488a2d4e8.jpg A real Lorem Ipsum tattoo found on the web] may just be a photoshop made by a tatt
...a reference to [[286]]. "{{w|All Your Base Are Belong to Us}}" is a broken English phrase found in the opening cutscene of the 1992 Mega Drive/Genesis port of
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{{w|John Horton Conway|John Conway}}, an English mathematician, passed away of [[:Category:COVID-19|COVID-19]] on April 11,
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...pics in physics that are related to motion and forces and used in ordinary English to refer to things that exert power, force, growth, and change (dynamo, dyn
...ne case because it has only positive and no negative connotations in plain English. In the other case because there is much confusion over the meaning of the
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...simply due to the placement of the particles in the table: In the American English vernacular, the phrase "left and right" is more common than "right and left
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...between different regions of the US. There are also quizzes about broader English dialects, but this comic focuses on commonly cited differences between Amer
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| This appears to be an error. Under standard English {{w|Scrabble letter distribution}} there are 100 tiles of which 2 are M. Th
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...d change|sound shifting}} laws to it to guess how it would have evolved in English had it not been superseded, but saying it seems to actually summon a bear.
:Ponytail: Gretchen, is this for real?
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...een nouns and verbs by spelling, only grammatical usage, and many words in English are both nouns and verbs, depending on context and placement.
...ts. If you can find all of the pairs then they would be able to guess your real number and thus this would be a weird kind of phishing attempt. If the grid
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"Out of the blue" is an English expression meaning "to appear in a sudden and unexpected fashion". It's a s
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[[File:CDC_COVID-19_Vaccination_Record_Card.jpg|thumb|300px|A real and appropriately censored CDC vaccination record.]]
The sentence at the top of the card, which appears once in English and once in Spanish, has equivalent portions redacted in both languages:
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..., for various reasons, one being that Wilson was the first translator into English who used words that showed the original connotations better(such as 'hounde
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Some features of the real world disappear, such as the English Channel, the North American Great Lakes, and the Strait of Gibraltar. The A
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This comic is Randall's "design notes" for the {{w|English alphabet}}. The comic lists the A-to-Z alphabet, in black block letters, fr
| rowspan="6" |"Decent consonants but no real heavy hitters here in the first third ("D" is solid, at least)"
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|Europa, one of Jupiter's many moons (in real life). A broken, icy crust has a single path into its core.
"English adjective order means that you're "Clifford the Big Red Dog" but not "Cliff
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...n'' (i.e. what the name and look represent, what they refer to both in the real and fictional worlds and what xkcd comics may have been a source or an insp
:'''Cueball''': I can't believe the Air and Space Museum's new exhibit has a real black hole!
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...s instead of just dozens or hundreds, their result would be apocalyptic. A real-life example was [https://www.wired.co.uk/article/nhs-email-reply-all-down
...be included - "loop in" is common business jargon for {{wiktionary|loop_in#English|meaning "include in communication about something"}}, related to "being in
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The word "''{{wiktionary|definitely}}''" is {{w|Commonly misspelled English words#C–D|known to be}} commonly {{wiktionary|misspelt}}, perhaps because
The comic gives twelve 'words' that the subtitle claims are all real, and gives their definitions, whereas in reality only the first (the defini
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...k waiting for patients to arrive. The phrase "the doctor" is often used in English as {{w|synecdoche}} for a doctor's office, commonly in the expression "to g
| "We're like librarians, but for your bones and blood." || A real doctor wouldn't proactively define their profession to a new patient. If th
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...-dimensional with the "''b''i" component {{w|orthogonal}} to the original "real" number line. Linguists never use the {{w|complex plane}} to represent vowe
...l position, and is often entirely optional in many if not most dialects of English. The pronunciation of "[ṡṡċċḣḣẇẇȧȧ]" in the title text is s
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...citation needed}}<!-- The link [https://linguapress.com/grammar/article-in-english.htm] does *not* suggest that "a" is optional, only "the", and then only for
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...uld like to use would result in awkward sequences of letters which are not English words or familiar names, such as "aete", "eni", etc. However, they have an
...notable for their exclusive usage of the {{w|Letter frequency|most common English letters}}. Most of them also begin and end with a vowel. These are two feat
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...sh author George Eliot, based around the eponymous (but fictional) central English town. The name was a rather tongue-in-cheek constructed British placename,
.... Originally produced in French and available in several translations, the English version has narration by actor {{w|Morgan Freeman}}. It is also mentioned i
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...11, 2012 || 1.0 || How many model rocket engines would it take to launch a real rocket into space? || About 65,000, give or take a few. || [[File:Model Roc
| 34 || {{what if|34|Twitter}} || February 26, 2013 || 1.0 || How many unique English tweets are possible? How long would it take for the population of the world
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