dantheman
Bah humbug
Or Biffers, or maybe there's a better name?
Similar in some respects to googlewhacks*, these are words that come up only once in an 'Advanced Search' on the BirdForum website. I've noticed a few before in the past (but don't recall having noted them down). Current topic inspired by this thread: https://www.birdforum.net/showthread.php?t=385759 (Both thanks and apologies to that thread originator ;-) )
Old, archaic (243), nearly obsolete or rarely written words tend to be 'the ones' along with various terms which just don't crop up in written discussion on a predominantly wildlife orientated forum.
A lot of long words have nevertheless been used many a time by folk, probably trying to sound pretentious (243) or grand (112).
Some more that don't count -
Determinism (23)
Nominative (68)
Fortuitously (80)
There may be some glitches (169) in the search engine though, as eg nevertheless (see above) doesn't come up with any results. Unless it really hasn't been used before this thread??
Search Format - Search 'Entire Posts' & Show Results as 'Posts'.
As with googlewhacks (5), deliberate 'spoiling' of results by posting good biffers in other threads is mean or nasty. (Posting to this thread doesn't count, or please use the * to replace a letter as in eg {po*ting, where * = s} to avoid spoilage (25).
Cheers ...
(* eg see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Googlewhack )
Similar in some respects to googlewhacks*, these are words that come up only once in an 'Advanced Search' on the BirdForum website. I've noticed a few before in the past (but don't recall having noted them down). Current topic inspired by this thread: https://www.birdforum.net/showthread.php?t=385759 (Both thanks and apologies to that thread originator ;-) )
Old, archaic (243), nearly obsolete or rarely written words tend to be 'the ones' along with various terms which just don't crop up in written discussion on a predominantly wildlife orientated forum.
A lot of long words have nevertheless been used many a time by folk, probably trying to sound pretentious (243) or grand (112).
Some more that don't count -
Determinism (23)
Nominative (68)
Fortuitously (80)
There may be some glitches (169) in the search engine though, as eg nevertheless (see above) doesn't come up with any results. Unless it really hasn't been used before this thread??
Search Format - Search 'Entire Posts' & Show Results as 'Posts'.
As with googlewhacks (5), deliberate 'spoiling' of results by posting good biffers in other threads is mean or nasty. (Posting to this thread doesn't count, or please use the * to replace a letter as in eg {po*ting, where * = s} to avoid spoilage (25).
Cheers ...
(* eg see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Googlewhack )