The Dictionary of Homophobia isn't a "how-to" guidebook for homophobes but rather an exhaustive compendium of the history, geography and philosophy of anti-gay fear, hatred and prejudice over the ages. You may be interested to discover that the biblical tale of Sodom and its debauched town folk lasciviously wanting "to know" visiting angels appears in both Judeo-Christian and Muslim holy books. The anthropological discovery of a planetary acceptance (from the darkest Africa to the pre-colonial forks of the Assiniboine and Red Rivers) of queers as shamanic healers and warriors prior to the arrival of western civilization is incredibly transformative in awakening a deeper understanding. Nazism's boot print appears in several entries. Hitler's regressive anti-gay laws took decades to undo ...
I just like the feeling of pwning people," she says. (Gamer dictionary time: "pwning" is a deliberate typo of "owning," and means something closer to "destroying.") "I don't even talk on the mic on CounterStrike because everyone thinks I'm a little boy," she says. "Sometimes I will, and if they know I'm a girl they'll start going, 'Hey, sexy...' Or they get even madder when they know it's a girl kicking their ass. I had one guy swear at me in Russian for 10 minutes. "I don't tell people I'm a girl because they won't believe me," she says of her public presentation on the wildly popular World of Warcraft online game. "They don't ask. They assume everyone's a boy."
Including the Civic Si. Look in the dictionary under 'pocket rocket' and you should find a picture of the Si. At first glance, it looks like yet another Civic sedan, albeit one with larger wheels and tires, body graphics and a funky spoiler mounted on the trunk, but propelling the Si is a race-inspired two-litre four-cylinder that wouldn't be out of place in an autocross racer or rallysport car. At least the new Si comes with some practicality. Open the trunk and a fairly cavernous 340 litres of luggage space is revealed, and it has a 60/40 folding rear seat for even more carrying capacity. One of the Si's direct competitors - the Mitsubishi Lancer - has 328 litres back there, and the Toyota Corolla has 390 litres. Because of the one-off custom front buckets that come with the Si, it ha...
If you read the dictionary, you get the sense of Canada being a fur-trading and trapping nation," [Stefan Dollinger] says. "And it's true, for much of its history, that's been very big. "But it's spoken language. I got that from a friend and it's not that we're making that up, it's just not in print data (yet). Although the word was made popular by actors Dave Thomas and Rick Moranis as the McKenzie brothers of SCTV's Great White North -- "Bob & Doug McKenzie defined the term as 'What you call your little brother when your mother isn't in the room,'" is how several sources define it -- Dollinger's team will look for earlier references prior to the airing of the TV segment.
The urban dictionary will tell you that you are 'jonesing' when you are desperately craving a fix. The curling dictionary will tell you that you are 'Jonesing' when the fix you crave is that feeling you can only get by throwing a last rock for the win while your heart is beating like a hummingbird. It says here that no one, ever, in the history of the women's game has been more adept at throwing last rock with everything on the line, even if it's partly because no one, ever, in the history of the women's game has been more adept at always putting herself in that situation. Practise makes perfect, after all. If it seems as though [Jennifer Jones] is suddenly everywhere lately, it is because she is. She has wisely retained the services of a public-relations helper simply to sift the myria...
the Dictionary of Manitoba Biography, We think this is a big deal," said U "Reference books should be online,
THE practice of "redlining" is defined in Webster's Dictionary as "to withhold home-loan funds or insurance from neighbourhoods considered poor economic risks; to discriminate against in housing or insurance. The ecoEnergy Efficiency Initiative recently unveiled by the federal Conservative government provides $300 million in grants over the next four years to encourage homeowners to use energy more efficiently. It is a green strategy that in effect redlines inner-city communities from participating in energy conservation programs. This program does not address the growing energy burden of low-income Canadians. Low-income homeowners have seldon participated in these types of energy conservation programs because they cannot afford the upfront money to do the retrofits. Most low-income h...
After finishing the memoir, readers will not doubt, as the Dictionary of Canadian Biography asserts, that [George Mercer Dawson] was a man of "awesome physical and intellectual accomplishments. Manitoba and a great part of the northwest," Dawson wrote, "had before it, I believed, the future of a great agricultural country. . . the long [winter] would tend to foster the growth of mills and factories for the elaboration of the crude materials produced in the country itself." Later, as a field officer for the Geological Survey, he was required to observe and record "the natural wonders of the Dominion," as well as the tribes, customs and languages of Canada's native peoples.
That's fine if you know how to spell the word and where the dictionary might be, but it is not of much use if you don't know one or the other or both. For example, suppose you want to know the meaning of "epifany." My father could have told me that, but he wouldn't, and I wouldn't have been able to find it in the dictionary because I was spelling it wrong. Ask [Google], however, and it will ask you "Did you mean: epiphany? The advice "Look it up in dictionary," however rude it might seem at the time, is actually good advice, because it usually means go get a dictionary in a standard book format. There you can usually trust the definitions of the words you are looking up, assuming that you can actually find them. The Oxford English Dictionary has many merits, but it never asks you "Did ...
The book's offence, apparently, is that it contains dirty words -- sexual words. And one certainly hopes that it does. What is a dictionary without dirty words? When I was kid, back when all the dictionaries, and most of the books, in fact, seemed to have been edited by Mrs. Grundy, it was a constant disappointment to turn to a dictionary and find conspicuous gaps where all the good words, the words I now use so easily, should have been.
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