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  1. How much should I trust Wiktionary? - English Language Learners …

    Wiktionary theoretically has the same vulnerabilities as Wikipedia. These include people engaging in internet vandalism, people editing a wiki to push an agenda, people who are editing …

  2. Can the word "genocide" be used as a verb? If it can't, what are …

    Here, on Wiktionary, it says we can use "genocide" as a transitive verb to mean "To commit genocide (against); to eliminate (a group of people) completely." In other dictionaries though, I …

  3. Meaning of "virtually unlimited" - English Language Learners Stack …

    In Hurley's A Concise Introduction to Logic, I read Ordinary language, as most of us are at least vaguely aware, serves various functions in our day-to-day lives. The twentieth-century …

  4. Idiom for saying something doesn't cost a lot for someone rich?

    Jul 15, 2022 · Idiom for saying something doesn't cost a lot for someone rich? 1 million is basically short change for Goldman Sachs. I thought the expression was short change, but after …

  5. What is the difference in meaning between the …

    Jun 14, 2023 · 9 You link to Wiktionary, which doesn't support your " (or has been)" with examples. All of the examples are clear that the baptisand is in the process of being baptised, …

  6. Why English IPA is so different across its definitions?

    Feb 26, 2024 · The document is supposed to be a phonetic translation, but Britain kinda matches the wiktionary phonemics [ˈbɹɪt.n̩] instead of phonetics /ˈbɹɪt.ən/. And what confuses me the …

  7. spelling - "Authoritative" vs. "Authorative" - English Language ...

    I have looked up "Authorative" in Merriam Webster and on Wiktionary, and the word does not exist there. However, a general Google search for "Authorative" turns up quite a few …

  8. What is an entry in a dictionary? - English Language Learners Stack ...

    Jul 29, 2020 · An "entry" in a dictionary is a headword (the word that gets looked up), plus its definition and any ancillary information that pertains to that word, such as an etymology, any …

  9. How did "discursive" come to have two opposite meanings?

    Dec 21, 2017 · The second meaning you cite (that of following reason rather than intuition) is clearly a specialised meaning in the domain in the philosophy: it is marked as philosophy in …

  10. Pronunciation of "kids" - English Language Learners Stack Exchange

    Sep 13, 2019 · This is really new to me. So if "kids" is pronounced with a partly voiced [z], could I transcript it phonetically as [kɪdzs] ? That I am able to hear in the Wiktionary audio for that …