Word of the Day

That was one of the first things that stood out to me, too.

It doesn’t show a dot, but the given score is only 0.01 difference. I suspect that a dot was actually plotted, but because they’re showing the UK dots partially covering the US dots on some other items (so they’ve apparently assigned the UK data points with a higher value on the z-axis to overlap the US data points) and because the horizontal scale is so small, it’s not displaying in that image. If it was a dynamic plot where you could zoom in enough to increase the scale, then eventually you’d probably see a sliver of a dot for the US score.

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Oh yeah! I didn’t look over on the left side :man_facepalming: I was only looking at the pretty colors :sweat_smile: Thanks

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pollorrhea

surfeit of survey. appolling!

strung out

straggle

naysay

cluster fruss

Compound frustration

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Want some new Gen Alpha words of the day?

  • Six Seven
    • Often Said in a goofy way while holding both palms up in front of you and moving them up and down alternately - the origins do have a little bit of meaning, sort of, but the use currently is generally just a completely meaningless meme, and currently just said in response to basically any question assuming others will think it’s funny. Most people who say it don’t even know the origins. They just say it because other people do.
  • Crash out
    • Emotionally lash out or lose control or “go off” out of anger and frustration. AKA adult toddler temper tantrum or up through committing violent felonies. E.g. “I’m about to crash out”
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Intriguing. Related to what I tried to describe here, do you think?

out on a limn

Similar. At that age, a lot of behavior is solely for social motives. Fashion is big on this.

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I went to a new school at 11 and before the first day a friend clued me in to what clothes were cool. I showed up with desert boots (one of four cool shoes) with red lining that showed above the ankle. :face_with_hand_over_mouth:

Knock-offs are way not cool, duh.

Slipped into some brand names that night. My journey had begun.

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chorister

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a remove

Distance or degree of separation or remoteness.

gaudy portentous vacuity

From a NY Times film review I read yesterday

You probably have a pair of these too. :laughing:

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cobbler

The kind of shoe you could take to a cobbler to fix. We had one down the block.

With a leather apron, IIRC. Which I probably don’t. :laughing:

I remember taking shoes to a cobbler to get new soles many times, :man_s_shoe: oldman