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  2. List of Puerto Rican slang words and phrases - Wikipedia

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    While in other countries this word means "insolence", [13] in Puerto Rico it has an entirely different meaning and is used to describe that something is good, fun, funny, great or beautiful. [14] corillo Friend, or group of friends. [9] dura Normally means “hard”, but in Puerto Rican slang means that someone is really good at what they do. [3]

  3. Appendix (anatomy) - Wikipedia

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    The longest appendix ever removed was 26 cm (10 in) long. [3] The appendix is usually located in the lower right quadrant of the abdomen, near the right hip bone. The base of the appendix is located 2 cm (0.79 in) beneath the ileocecal valve that separates the large intestine from the small

  4. Wikipedia : Spanish Translation of the Week

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    Recently a machine translation of the Spanish article (which *looks* to be quite comprehensive) was attempted by the Spanish article's primary author User:Saeta (a.k.a es:Usuario:Lobillo) who clearly wants to expand the article and would surely be a great resource. Also, writing/translating the article should be both interesting and, well, fun.--

  5. Human vestigiality - Wikipedia

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    Ileum, caecum and colon of rabbit, showing Appendix vermiformis on fully functional caecum The human vermiform appendix on the vestigial caecum. The appendix was once believed to be a vestige of a redundant organ that in ancestral species had digestive functions, much as it still does in extant species in which intestinal flora hydrolyze cellulose and similar indigestible plant materials. [10]

  6. List of idioms of improbability - Wikipedia

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    A very popular one is "Eşek sudan gelince" (When a donkey comes ashore from the sea) Ukrainian – коли рак на горі свисне ("koly rak no hori svysne"), "when the crawfish whistles on the mountain"; or a longer variant коли рак на горі свисне, а риба заспіває ( koly rak no hori svysne, a ryba ...

  7. Wikipedia : Contributing to articles outside your native language

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    If you are leaving a foreign language remark, it helps to say something like “comment in Spanish, translation needed”. A useful place to look is Wikipedia:Translators available . If you have a genuinely important contribution to make, you might try contacting one of these people and asking for translation help (but please realize that they ...

  8. Talk:Appendix - Wikipedia

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    The appendix occurs in man, a few mammals such as rabbits and Old World porcupines, and books. I am laughing too hard to remove it :(. life is not waht it seems with take out with extra appendixs. My mate Dazla got a busted appendix the other day, it exploded all over the place and put all poisonous stuff in his bowls.

  9. Pleonasm - Wikipedia

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    The word aujourd'hui / au jour d'hui is translated as 'today', but originally means "on the day of today" since the now obsolete hui means "today". The expression au jour d'aujourd'hui (translated as "on the day of today") is common in spoken language and demonstrates that the original construction of aujourd'hui is lost. It is considered a ...