this post was submitted on 21 Jul 2023
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When people are way too smug about their wrong answer.

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[–] Morphing7716 34 points 1 year ago (1 children)

North, East, West, South ?

[–] SomeoneElse 22 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Never eat wheat shredded, obviously.

[–] Wreckronomicon 8 points 1 year ago

Naughty Elephants Water Squirt

[–] rockSlayer 6 points 1 year ago

My favorite cereal, I love NEWSOs

[–] Hotdogman 21 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Look, I don't know who you are, Webster. I have done my own online research using a dictionary and that is what it means. Do you even know what a dictionary is?

[–] Rhin0 5 points 1 year ago

Fucking Webster chugging beers on his porch in Atlanta thinks he knows it all, what an asshole.

[–] FlyingSquid 15 points 1 year ago

What would Merriam-Webster know about words?!

[–] Ultraviolet 12 points 1 year ago (2 children)

With very, very few exceptions (mostly technology related), if someone claims the etymology of a common word is an acronym, they're full of shit.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

Shit - swimming, healing, integration, teamwork

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

SCUBA and RADAR are the only ones I know of.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] Hextic 3 points 1 year ago

Sup, what's new?

Oh shit..

[–] Mr_Dr_Oink 1 points 1 year ago

I believe this is the answer.

The news are the new things. New stories, events.

Like the olds would be yesterdays news

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I mean, it doesn't, literally speaking. But that does make a pretty good acronym for it, tbh.