Read some articles saying they are different species but wikipedia disagrees: The terms shrimp and prawn are common names, not scientific names. They are vernacular or colloquial terms which lack the formal definition of scientific terms. They are not taxa, but are terms of convenience with little circumscriptional significance... According to the crustacean taxonomist Tin-Yam Chan, "The terms shrimp and prawn have no definite reference to any known taxonomic groups. Although the term shrimp is sometimes applied to smaller species, while prawn is more often used for larger forms, there is no clear distinction between both terms and their usage is often confused or even reversed in different countries or regions."
Yep, because it had a greater dynamic range than previous keyboard instruments like the harpsichord. One of its main innovations is that it could play both piano (quiet) and forte (loud).
Free isn't restricted to money. A food free of sugar still costs money down front at the register.
Like above, jumbo shrimp (a small person, slang taken directly from the animal shrimp) and soft rock (taken from the verb to rock, not solidified sediment) the 2 terms do not in any way contradict each other. Only to someone who has an extremely limited understanding of the definitions of the word.
agree with LadyScroop. Toll-free should preferably be hyphenated, as it is a compound adjective. Just because two juxtaposed words are opposites doesn't necessarily make it an oxymoron.
Actually, I don't think either is correct. In geology we divide the world into hard rocks (igneous and many metamorphic) and soft rocks (sedimentary). Many sed rocks are really not that hard. So while "rock" may be the epitome of hard to some (or to heavy for others), rock does not equal hard or heavy.
I used to know an Irish fellow who worked for the Irish Embassy in London. I used to ask him if if was a spy, and he used to say that "Irish intelligence is a an oxymoron".
Toll-free should be hyphenated, and isn't an oxymoron as it means "free from tolls".
I think people are confused on the shrimp, with prawns they're "giant prawns"....same thing but what they call them in Australia and other places (never mind the ad campaign, we don't throw shrimps on the barbie, definitely prawns).
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Like above, jumbo shrimp (a small person, slang taken directly from the animal shrimp) and soft rock (taken from the verb to rock, not solidified sediment) the 2 terms do not in any way contradict each other. Only to someone who has an extremely limited understanding of the definitions of the word.
To be clear, he said that, not me.
I think people are confused on the shrimp, with prawns they're "giant prawns"....same thing but what they call them in Australia and other places (never mind the ad campaign, we don't throw shrimps on the barbie, definitely prawns).