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unusual facts about The Word



2008 in British radio

September - An interview on BBC Radio WM between Les Ross and writer and broadcaster Hardeep Singh Kohli is criticised for its awkwardness in the music magazine The Word and in The Guardian newspaper (suggesting that the interview ends up more like an Alan Partridge tribute act).

Mark Ellen

Ellen was the editor of The Word, a UK music magazine which he started with long-time colleague, business partner and Whistle Test co-presenter David Hepworth.

Moonshake

During his Moonshake years, David Callahan enjoyed brief cameos with contemporaries Stereolab (performing "French Disko" with them on Channel 4's The Word in 1993) and the Stereolab spin-off project Turn On.

Ten Alps

For £1 they bought Planet 24 Radio, a subsidiary of Geldof’s previous TV production company Planet 24, producer of The Big Breakfast and The Word, when Planet 24 TV was sold to ITV subsidiary Carlton TV.

The Hazey Janes

Recorded with Paco Loco (Golden Smog, The Sadies, Josh Rouse) in El Puerto de Santa Maria, Spain, the record met with significant acclaim from Q magazine, Mojo, Uncut, Classic Rock and The Word.

You're Gonna Lose Us

The promotional video recreates the infamous early '90s television programme The Word, featuring an appearance from its original host Terry Christian.


see also

Anglo

The word is derived from Anglia, the Latin name for England, and still the modern name of its eastern region.

Autocorrection

For example, the American Family Association chose to replace all instances of the word, "gay", on its website with the word, "homosexual".

Bnied Al-Gar

The word "Gar" in Arabic means Tar, and so it was thus named due to the natural discharge of oils.

Chreod

Chreod, is a portmanteau term coined by 20th century biologist Conrad Hal Waddington that combines the Greek word for "determined" or "necessary" and the word for "pathway."

Cojones

The first English-language text to contain the word cojones as a metaphor for bravery is Ernest Hemingway's 1932 book on bullfighting, Death in the Afternoon.

Cyan

Cyanotype, or blueprint, a monochrome photographic printing process that predates the use of the word cyan as a color, yields a deep cyan-blue colored print based on the Prussian blue pigment.

Deadly Towers

It is a pun of the word mashō (魔性), meaning "devilishness", and in keeping with this theme, the Japanese cartridge contained a red LED at the top which illuminated when turned on.

Decimus Laelius

Cicero's use of the word "respectable" (honestus) instead of "noble" (nobilis) to describe his family background suggests that he was not descended from the consular Laelii.

Dyson tree

The word "Orwood" in this context was originally coined by Anders Sandberg.

Enactment

In the preceding provisions of the Supply of Goods and Services Act 1982 and in section 18 of that Act, the word "enactment" means any legislation (including subordinate legislation) of the United Kingdom or Northern Ireland.

Eusebeia

The Indian emperor Ashoka in his 250 BCE Edicts used the word "eusebeia" as a Greek translation for the central Buddhist and Hindu concept of "dharma".

Follow the Word

"Follow the Word" was the only single taken from Máire's album Whisper to the Wild Water released the previous year.

Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn

It was also not the first use of profanity since the Production Code came into effect – Warner Bros. made a "blooper" reel featuring Looney Tunes character Porky Pig saying the word "bitch", though the "blooper" reel was an inside joke and wasn't released publicly until 2006.

Gartz

The name derives from northern Lechitic (Proto-Polish) dialects (namely from West Pomeranian) from the word "gard" < *gord, meaning "fortified settlement".

Goona-goona epic

The word goona-goona comes from the 1932 film Goona-Goona, An Authentic Melodrama of the Island of Bali by Andre Roosevelt and Armand Denis.

Grog

The word originally referred to a drink made with water or "small beer" (a weak beer) and rum, which British Vice Admiral Edward Vernon introduced into the Royal Navy on 21 August 1740.

Holiest sites in Sunni Islam

According to the teachings of Islam, God, in the Quran, used the word mosque when referring to the sites established by ʾIbrāhīm (Abraham) and his progeny as houses of worship to God centuries before the revelation of the Quran.

Hoveround

He blended the word “hover” (based on the hovering look of the wheelchair),with the Beach Boys’ song “I Get Around.”

Huitzuco

Different versions exist on the meaning of the word Huitzuco, the doctor Gutierre Tibón affirms that it comes from the Nahuatl huitzilizo (thorns), and the locative co, and so means as “Place of Thorns”, because their lands were covered with huisache.

Hungry generation

They took the word Hungry from Geoffrey Chaucer's line "In Sowre Hungry Tyme" and they drew upon, among others, Oswald Spengler's histriographical ideas about the non-centrality of cultural evolution and progression, for philosophical inspiration.

Inflammatory

The word inflammatory is not used to refer literally to fire and flammability, but is used in relation to comments that are provocative and arouse passions and emotions, however in English this is not technically correct.

Jaca Navarra

The word jaca has an unusual history, from Old Spanish haca, itself from Old French haque, which in turn is ultimately derived from the English place-name Hackney, a place famous for its horses.

Kloosterkerk

In the Netherlands the word Kloosterkerk or monasterium refers to a church that is or was connected to a monastery.

Kyōran Kazoku Nikki

: She is a young female alien with long braided blue hair which has a large eyeball at the end from the planet Ocean (which looks very similar to Jupiter) that had come to Earth to figure out the to meaning of the word 'love'.

Lymph

The word lymph is derived from the name of the Roman deity of fresh water, Lympha.

Milieu

Milieu is the word for environment in French, and, for hundreds of years, also in Dutch, German, Swedish, Danish, English, and other languages that were strongly influenced by French culture and French language, primarily during the 17th and 18th centuries.

Moclips River

According to Edmond S. Meany the word moclips comes from a Quinault word meaning a place where girls were sent as they were approaching puberty.

Music from and Inspired by the Motion Picture 8 Mile

50 Cent in Proofs verse the word "shit" is uncensored (even on the clean version) and in Eminem's verse the words White House and Cheney are censored on both Edited and Explicit versions

Numerama

The origin of the word "Ratiatum" is the name of the city of Rezé when it was under the rule of the Roman Empire.

Penelope Umbrico

Her project "Suns from Flickr " started in 2006 when she found 541,795 pictures of Sunsets searching the word “sunset” on the photo-sharing web site Flickr while looking for the most photographed subject (which the sunset turned out to be).

Phu Wiang Dinosaur Museum

The word “Phu Wiang” in the name of the museum results from the fact that the museum used to be located in the Phu Wiang District, though since 2006 it is located in the newly established Wiang Kao district.

Pickover stalk

At the same time he coined "biomorph" for these patterns, the famous evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins used the word to refer to his own set of biological shapes that were arrived at by a very different procedure.

Pointy-haired Boss

The company's actual name, as spoken in the TV series, was "Path-Way Electronics" before merging with "E-Tech Management", making it "Path-E-Tech Management" (a play on the word "pathetic"), but when Dogbert acquired it later in the episode, there was a "Dogbert Inc." sign being lifted into place.

Proposition bet

:*Betting on specific aspects of the pageantry surrounding a sporting event, such as a) the duration of the word "brave" in the pregame performance of the U.S. national anthem or b) the color of the Gatorade or other sports drink dumped on the winning team's coach in the traditional practical joke and victory ritual known as Gatorade shower

Remember Last Night?

PCA head Joseph Breen forbade the use of the word "hangover" in the title.

Saifee Villa

In 1978, after the death of Syenda Taher Saifuddin, his heir Syedna Mohammed Burhanuddin, in the memory of his fathers' visits, changed the name from "Lakshmigiri" to "Saifee Villa" (where the word "Saifee" is derived from the name Saifuddin).

Saint Andrew in Romania

In 1940, Ion Dinu, a lawyer, found a cave in Ion Corvin, Constanța and spread the word that Saint Andrew lived in the cave.

Sakai Project

"Sakai" is a play on the word “chef,” and refers to Iron Chef Hiroyuki Sakai.

Seersucker

The word came into English from Hindustani (Urdu and Hindi), and originates from the words "kheer aur shakkar", literally meaning "rice pudding and sugar", probably from the resemblance of its smooth and rough stripes to the smooth texture of milk and the bumpy texture of sugar.

Silicone

F. S. Kipping coined the word "silicone" in 1901 to describe polydiphenylsiloxane by analogy of its formula, Ph2SiO (Ph stands for phenyl, C6H5), with the formula of the ketone benzophenone, Ph2CO.

Smeg Virus Construction Kit

Messages within the two viruses Pile created with it, SMEG.Pathogen and SMEG.Queeg, suggest that it is also an allusion to the word smeg, used as a profanity by characters in the British TV series Red Dwarf.

Spittal, Pembrokeshire

Its name is a corruption of the word Hospital, which is also the root of such names as Spitalfields, London, Spital, Merseyside, Spital-in-the-Street, Lincolnshire, etc: the village possessed a hospitium (place of accommodation for pilgrims) belonging to the Cathedral of St David's.

The Kiss Seen Around the World

The man who frequently appears throughout the episode calling Peter (and later Neil) a phony is named Holden Caulfield in the credits, a reference to the character of the same name who is the protagonist of the 1951 book The Catcher in the Rye, known to use the word "phony" many times throughout the book.

The Secrets of the Self

Showing that the purpose of the Muslims 's like is to exalt the Word of Allah, and that the Jihad(to strive or to struggle), if it be prompted by land-hunger, is unlawful in the religion of Islam

The Word for World Is Forest

A copy of The Word for World Is Forest is visible at the bedside of the character Joker in a scene set in Vietnam in Stanley Kubrick's film Full Metal Jacket (this is an anachronism as the movie takes place in and around 1968, while The Word for World Is Forest was published in 1976).

The Yiddish King Lear

The husbands of the daughters among whom David Moishele divides his "kingdom" are, respectively a Hasid, an Orthodox Jewish businessman, and an apikoyres (a secular Jew: the word derives from Epicurean).

Tlamatini

The word is analyzable as derived from the transitive verb mati "to know" with the prefix tla- indicating an unspecified inanimate object translatable by "something" and the derivational suffix -ni meaning "a person who are characterized by ...": hence tla-mati-ni "a person who is characterized by knowing something" or more to the point "a knower".

Vineland

Vineland may be a play on the word "Hollywood", a reference to the first Viking settlement in North America, Vinland, or a reference to Andrey Vinelander, a character in Vladimir Nabokov's Ada or Ardor: A Family Chronicle.

Wihan Daeng District

The word Wihan Daeng comes from the Buddhism Red Wihara of Lawa people in Ban Lam area, which was built by red bricks.

Yanchep National Park

The word Yanchep is derived from Yandjip or Yanget which is the aboriginal name for the local bulrush reed found fringing the lakes in the area.