For your information, permafrost, a frozen underground area which has been its form for several eras, takes up 90% of carbon dioxide in the Earth. In which it implies is that when the Earth get hotter and the permafrost melts, there would be a significant emission of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, thus the global warming would then be seriously worsened, which is known as the 'positive feedback mechanism'.
Soil, as a solid, is already "frozen". It's the moisture in the soil that freezes. If it stays frozen all year round, year after year, then it's permafrost.
Denim pants are always jeans but the leggings are usually jean leggings. Otherwise it sounds as though you are referring to a person named Jean Sleggings.
I don't know about this quiz. It's a nice idea, but most of the answers are too obvious. Spanglish, brunch, permafrost, Bennifer, sexile, smog, paratrooper...most everyone knows all these in a heartbeat. I don't mind a few softballs to fill the quiz out, but there are really only like two or three challenging questions on this one. A nice concept, but without harder clues, it's kinda lame.
Somebody was probably confused. Bennifer is definitely Ben Assfleck and Jennifer Garner. Though now there is Bennifer two which is Ben and Jennifer Lopez. Or maybe I have that backward. I could be thinking of Filliam H Muffman.
For some reason, I could only think of cartoons at that point. Maybe I've held too many toonies in my hand and those have turned wallpaper in my brain.
I only knew it because of having collected world coins for years. The toonie actually features a polar bear and is bi-metal. One of the coolest coins I've come across.
I suppose it depends on how you're defining it. When I was in college, "sexile" meant that your roommate kicked you out of your room so that they could have sex.
I've always wanted to try it but it looks like a lot of trouble to prepare and I'm not crazy about turkey, so maybe I'd do better with a gooducken. I've heard someone in California is now selling lambpigcows all wrapped together. That would take a big dining table.
I as many with me I am sure, tried cyber first. So used to seeing that you hardly ever hear cybernetic anymore. I think it is guessed so low, cause most gave up at that point (maybe not aware of the word cybernetic) after a little pause the fullword came to me. But it was definitely overshadowed by cyber.
In was literally reading about the Sirius Cybernetics Corporation this morning. I doubt I would've made the leap from cyber to cybernetics if I hadn't been...
Never hear of pluot, sexile, pro-am, and toonie (and dont think I ve heard chunnel or mcmansion, but after reading it once already feels familiar)
still managed to guess everything but professional, amateur and two.
Surprised at how extremely low web is !!! It is not like it is and obscure word this day and age... Then again, maybe that is the problem?? Kids so young, not realising it is a compound word. I think it is easier when you were around when the word first appeared.
Then again Only now I realise it is the only one that misses letters in front (not that it matters if you actually know the word, that it is weblog) I guess maybe the ones that (astonishingly) didnt know, couldnt guess it either because they were looking for words starting blo- ?
I guessed pluot on a fluke by randomly thinking of things starting plu, when plum unexpectedly was right it was not a bigjump to apricot.
toonie is a canadian 2 dollar coin. mcmansion is a large house that looks like a mansion but from an architect's standpoint is a disaster. chunnel is a tunnel from the UK to france via the english channel.
While there appears to be no strict lexical definition preventing "cyborg" to be considered a portmanteau, it most certainly is a syllabic abbreviation. If the two are to be categorized as separate terms, a syllabic abbreviation takes precedence.
It may possibly belong to both categories, but it is worth noting the tendency of a portmanteau to contain the beginning of one word and the whole or the end of the other, not just the first syllables of both as syllabic abbreviations do (interpol, gestapo, comintern, pasokon).
Just a wild guess!!!!!!!
If something is made of the same fabric as jeans you say denim, like a denim jacket, not a jean jacket.
Though I agree it would be nicer if none of them had the full name in it (and no celebrity couples!!)
And I find it funny that not a lot of people knew toonie
gross
Edit:then again, I dont know any cyborgs either..
still managed to guess everything but professional, amateur and two.
Surprised at how extremely low web is !!! It is not like it is and obscure word this day and age... Then again, maybe that is the problem?? Kids so young, not realising it is a compound word. I think it is easier when you were around when the word first appeared.
Then again Only now I realise it is the only one that misses letters in front (not that it matters if you actually know the word, that it is weblog) I guess maybe the ones that (astonishingly) didnt know, couldnt guess it either because they were looking for words starting blo- ?
I guessed pluot on a fluke by randomly thinking of things starting plu, when plum unexpectedly was right it was not a bigjump to apricot.
While there appears to be no strict lexical definition preventing "cyborg" to be considered a portmanteau, it most certainly is a syllabic abbreviation. If the two are to be categorized as separate terms, a syllabic abbreviation takes precedence.
It may possibly belong to both categories, but it is worth noting the tendency of a portmanteau to contain the beginning of one word and the whole or the end of the other, not just the first syllables of both as syllabic abbreviations do (interpol, gestapo, comintern, pasokon).