along the same lines, could rehabilitate be accepted for rehab? I have heard rehab used as a verb on occasion, for example "He'll be out for 2 weeks to rehab his injured ankle." In this case I believe it's short for rehabilitate instead of rehabilitation.
Why? It's called a referee in most games and "umpire" only in strange American games.. :) And then to make the leap to an abbreviation... I got it, but I've never heard of the abbreviated version.
I've witnessed people saying zine instead of magazine often enough to be aware of this word, so I can assure you that this isn't something the quizmaster made up ;)
But "ump"... Just the mention of sports make me yawn, so for all I know, it could have been made up for the purpose of this quiz :D (that is what the referee is called in certain sports, right?)
Blog is not really a shorten version of a word but a portmanteau, which is a combination of words forming a new word using sounds from each original word.
ps we dont go to the gym ( that sounds so weird, you have gymclass as a kid at school)>> The place you go to work out is a sportschool.
We have the word gymnaseum as a (direction of) school. If you have latin and greek on your curriculum.
Btw all these words come from the same place and is a "school" where the ancient greek (besides learning) used to excercise, naked. It literally means, place to be naked.
Actually AD does not mean after death. It is a Latin abbreviation for Anno Domini which means the year of our Lord. Therefore BC is before the birth of Jesus, AD is after his birth.
Yeah, once somebody was reading aloud from a National Geographic thing, talking about a pharaoh who built something(this was a long time ago, so I don't remember the details) in some date A.D., and somebody else asked 'What's A.D. mean?' and they said 'after death', and now I look back and think how did I not catch that, it's so ridiculous! He can't build something after his own death!
em... I am pretty sure the death refered to was jesus' one. (while a.d is actually counting from the birth of jesus, so it is not that ridiculous at all.
Seems kind of obvious to me that people thinking a.d is after death are talking about jesus...
I would agree with EVERYONE ELSE that zine is short for fanzine, not magazine. "I-I-I-I-I-I wanna publish zines! And rage against machines!" Harvey Danger was talking fanzines there.
I think there's a distinction between an abbreviation and a "shortened word". Lab for labour is just a written abbreviation; no-one would actually say "a lab politician". All the ones in the quiz are things people say as well as write (except possibly "ump", which I've never heard anywhere else).
I had no idea before what blog and disco were short for. Honestly, I had no idea they were short for anything (though I knew what they were). Got the rest.
Ha. Get 'em all....but it took a minute for "admin" cuz I kept thinking of college admin being the administration building....not administrator. Oh, well.....Oh, and zine was easy; rarely used but I've see it enough to know what it meant.
Tried veterinary surgeon and veterinary doctor - I think they should be accepted, specially for us Brits. I've never hard of Labrador being shortened to lab.
*mouth dropped to the floor emoji* almost noone knows what blog is ??? in this time that it is so common ( when blogs and the word for it first came into use I can understand. but now every 6 yo seems to blog or vlog ( videoblog... now you know that one too...)
I think that the time you'd save by saying "ump" instead of "umpire" would be vastly less than the time you'd lose having to explain what the hell you were talking about.
normalcy, agreeance, majorly, purposely, literally, absolutely ...
Data FTW!
I might be the only person who has ever said that. I felt weird.
But Data is awesome.
Spock is too.
But Data is awesomer.
I know it's not a word. Don't care.
Data is awesomest!
But "ump"... Just the mention of sports make me yawn, so for all I know, it could have been made up for the purpose of this quiz :D (that is what the referee is called in certain sports, right?)
We have the word gymnaseum as a (direction of) school. If you have latin and greek on your curriculum.
Btw all these words come from the same place and is a "school" where the ancient greek (besides learning) used to excercise, naked. It literally means, place to be naked.
Seems kind of obvious to me that people thinking a.d is after death are talking about jesus...
*facepalm*
I think that you should allow 'Fanzine' for "Zine". I've only ever heard the expression Zine used in that context. Neat quiz. Thanks! :)
Funny pic of labs explained
However, "vocab" should be the first clue.