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1. AGLET - The plain or ornamental covering on the end of a shoelace.
2. ARMSAYE - The armhole in clothing.
3. CHANKING - Spat-out food, such as rinds or pits.
4. COLUMELLA NASI - The bottom part of the nose between the nostrils.
5. DRAGÉES - Small beadlike pieces of candy, usually silver-coloured, used for decorating cookies, cakes and sundaes.

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I knew what an aglet was already, aren’t I clever

Anyone know any other hardly used words? I’ve quite interested in Lexicology and Etymology. Language is endlessly fascinating.

US Presidential Speeches Tag Cloud “… shows the popularity, frequency, and trends in the usages of words within speeches, official documents, declarations, and letters written by the Presidents of the US between 1776 - 2006 AD.”

Interesting to see how the topics of the day have changed. I wonder how this approach might work for UK Parliamentary speeches. I suspect that the current top tag word will be the same as the US version, no shock there!

Have a guess on the top word before you view the link

get your tongue around this collection of Tongue Twisters.

I saw Susie sitting in a shoe shine shop.
Where she sits she shines, and where she shines she sits.

fnarr fnarr

Today I found myself having the need to dabble in a bit of javascript. Not something I really have a passion for and try to avoid at nearly every turn. It’s just one of those languages i’ve never been comfortable with. No disrespect to the highly talented individuals who came up with the language but why does it have to be so difficult to work with. Especially the annoying mixed-case naming convention for functions.

All I needed to do today was total up a few figures in a couple of select boxes and then dump the result into an element. It took me about an hour to write, mainly as I had to keep hunting around for which letter in the function name should be capitalised or vice-versa. why? why? why?

If the intention was to make the function names easier to read then fair enough, but why not just use underscores like php, a million times easier.

getElementById() what’s wrong with get_element_by_id()

Is there a bigger reason here, am I missing the point? Every language i’ve used has either been upper or lower case, why mixed? Even COBOL was single case!