
- 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 … 
- 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 … 
- 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 … 
- 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 … 
- 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, … 
- 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 … 
- 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 … 
- 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 … 
- 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 … 
- 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 …