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[–] mihnt 19 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] reddig33 20 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Those aren’t really English “words” though. There’s some old welsh in there which actually used W as a double U. And then some onomatopoeia, which while defined in some dictionaries, aren’t really words anymore than abbreviations like CIA or FCC are words.

[–] tocopherol@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

According to the Cambridge English dictionary a word is simply "a single unit of language that has meaning and can be spoken or written", so acronyms and onomatopoeia are words as much as any other apparently. Maybe they would consider an acronym multiple units of language bound together though so not itself a word.

"nth" is a "common" word though

[–] Ephera@lemmy.ml 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

A cwm (pronounced /ˈkuːm/) is used in English in a technical geographical or mountaineering context to mean a deep hollow in a mountainous area

Uhuh...

[–] Neil@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 year ago

I'm about to cwm.