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  2. Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/2021 June 17

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    And one is of an old half-witted sheep Which bleats articulate monotony, And indicates that two and one are three, That grass is green, lakes damp, and mountains steep: And, Wordsworth, both are thine: at certain times Forth from the heart of thy melodious rhymes, The form and pressure of high thoughts will burst: At other times -- good Lord! I ...

  3. Halfwidth and fullwidth forms - Wikipedia

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    Unlike monospaced fonts, a halfwidth character occupies half the width of a fullwidth character, hence the name. Halfwidth and Fullwidth Forms is also the name of a Unicode block U+FF00–FFEF, provided so that older encodings containing both halfwidth and fullwidth characters can have lossless translation to and from Unicode.

  4. List of disability-related terms with negative connotations

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    Dim or dim-witted [25] DALYs/DFLYs/QALYs: Disability or Quality Adjusted (or Free) Life Years: Suggests that a nondisabled person's life years are worth more than a disabled person's [26] The Disabled or Disabled people May be offensive to some, [1] [17] [22] who may prefer "person with a disability" or "people with health conditions or ...

  5. Ain't - Wikipedia

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    Winston Churchill, commenting on the 1954 portrait by Graham Sutherland, said "It makes me look half-witted, which I ain't". [66] "Ain't That a Shame" is a song written by Fats Domino and Dave Bartholomew, released by Imperial Records in 1955, which sold over a million copies and introduced Fats Domino to a wider audience. [67]

  6. Non-numerical words for quantities - Wikipedia

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    Half-dozen 6 Six of something Decade: 10 Primarily denotes ten years, but occasionally refers to ten of something Duo: 2 In reference to people engaged in an endeavor together, as in musical performance (other words denote three or more people in the same context: trio, quartet, etc.) Grand: 1,000

  7. Gammon (insult) - Wikipedia

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    A half-sliced piece of gammon. A 2004 sports feature in The Observer described Rupert Lowe as the "gammon-cheeked Southampton chairman". [5]In 2010, Caitlin Moran wrote that British Prime Minister David Cameron resembled "a slightly camp gammon robot" and "a C3PO made of ham" in her 13 March column in The Times, [6] later collected in her 2012 anthology Moranthology.

  8. House season 3 - Wikipedia

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    The episode "Half-Wit" was submitted for consideration in the categories of Outstanding Drama Series, Outstanding Writing for a Drama Series (for Lawrence Kaplow), and Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series (for Hugh Laurie). [10] The series and Laurie received nominations. [11]

  9. The Flesh in the Furnace - Wikipedia

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    The half-witted assistant now has their lives in his hands, and they are not so competent hands after all. They strive to free themselves once again, and find that their perfect life they'd thought they had created has turned against them.