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This is a set category.It should only contain pages that are Pejorative terms for people or lists of Pejorative terms for people, as well as subcategories containing those things (themselves set categories).
Also apophthegm. A terse, pithy saying, akin to a proverb, maxim, or aphorism. aposiopesis A rhetorical device in which speech is broken off abruptly and the sentence is left unfinished. apostrophe A figure of speech in which a speaker breaks off from addressing the audience (e.g., in a play) and directs speech to a third party such as an opposing litigant or some other individual, sometimes ...
(p) = pseudo-blend, e.g.: UNIFEM – (p) United Nations Development Fund for Women (s) = symbol (none of the above, representing and pronounced as something else; for example: MHz – megahertz) Some terms are spoken as either acronym or initialism, e.g., VoIP, pronounced both as voyp and V-O-I-P. (Main list of acronyms)
List of American words not widely used in the United Kingdom; List of British words not widely used in the United States; List of South African English regionalisms; List of words having different meanings in American and British English: A–L; List of words having different meanings in American and British English: M–Z
Root Meaning in English Origin language Etymology (root origin) English examples cac-, kak-[1]bad: Greek: κακός (kakós), κάκιστος (kákistos): cachexia ...
Chemical nomenclature, replete as it is with compounds with very complex names, is a repository for some names that may be considered unusual. A browse through the Physical Constants of Organic Compounds in the CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics (a fundamental resource) will reveal not just the whimsical work of chemists, but the sometimes peculiar compound names that occur as the ...
N C G Middle-earth: J. R. R. Tolkien: The setting for The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit. See also Arda, of which Middle-earth is a part. The Hobbit: 1937: N P F R C G V Mid-World: Stephen King: The setting for King's The Dark Tower novel series "The Little Sisters of Eluria" 1998: N C V F Mushroom Kingdom: Shigeru Miyamoto: Primary setting ...