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[-] reddig33@lemmy.world 19 points 6 months ago

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 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months 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.

[-] UndercoverUlrikHD@programming.dev 3 points 6 months ago

"nth" is a "common" word though

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