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.
Don't know if this will be helpful or merely pedantic, but "memorandum" is the Latin for "memorize" plus a suffix meaning "to be x" (so "to be remembered"). Similar words in English are "addendum" ("to be added"), "referendum" ("to be referred back"), and "agenda" ("to be done"--with the change from "-um" to "-a" making it plural--"things to be done").
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.
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.
not really, considering how many 'silly' spellings the english language has (there's more if you don't take simplified american spellings into account)
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.
*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...)
Perhaps that is it. Though the close relation and resemblance to the word log, would get people thinking wouldn't it? What are the odds of a completely random made up word having similar form ánd function as an already existing one? I guess I am biased because I am always interested in the origin of words. (So when a new one enters the scene of course I would like to know how it came to be. Though I generally delve into older words of which the origins are all but forgotten and not easily spotted at first sight)
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.
Does piano fit in this list? Piano is a shortening of pianoforte, but only when you change languages. Pianoforte is an Italian word, not an English word. Piano is the English word. I feel like the rest of these are shortening within the same language.
If you watch English period movies, such as Sense and Sensibility, they’re usually called pianofortes. In her books, Jane Austen spells it pianoforte’.
The instruments they used at that time were different from what we call pianos now. They are rightly called by two different names, not just a longer version of the same name.
I tried every wiriting of delicacies I could think of. Would've never thought to use the German word with the letter c. Who came up with that? Like why not use the correct French or German word? Doesn't even look or sound fancier.
You're on the right track. Fortepiano and pianoforte are two terms for the same thing. The thing that they refer to is not what we call a piano. It is a different, earlier type of keyboard instrument. This one doesn't belong on the quiz.
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.
*facepalm*
However, "vocab" should be the first clue.
It’s plural.
Do the grammar…
I know pianoforte as "fortepiano", now I know the English word.
- your friendly neighborhood piano tuner
Btw, blog is a weblog which is a WEB LOG. Mind blown.