Today's Random Word!

  • WOTD - Sequecentennial

    Joe

  • crookj (2/28/2011)


    WOTD - Sequecentennial

    Joe

    That is a bit of a random word, especially in the spelling department. I'm disinclined to say that a spelling which will let most people know what is meant is actually incorrect, but...

    It's a uncommon spelling - Google comes up with only 86 hits if told to search for sequecentennial (those include a couple with "seque-centennial" and one each of "seque centennial" and "sequecentennial(sp?) as opposed to 1,360,000 for sesquicentennial (which is the spelling in all the dictionaries I know of).

    There are 3400 hits for sequicentennial and 3010 for sesquecentennial, so sequecentennial is 35 times as rare as the third most common spelling, and is outnumbered by not much less than 16000:1 by the other spellings.

    Tom

  • Tom.Thomson (2/28/2011)


    crookj (2/28/2011)


    WOTD - Sequecentennial

    Joe

    That is a bit of a random word, especially in the spelling department. I'm disinclined to say that a spelling which will let most people know what is meant is actually incorrect, but...

    It's a uncommon spelling - Google comes up with only 86 hits if told to search for sequecentennial (those include a couple with "seque-centennial" and one each of "seque centennial" and "sequecentennial(sp?) as opposed to 1,360,000 for sesquicentennial (which is the spelling in all the dictionaries I know of).

    There are 3400 hits for sequicentennial and 3010 for sesquecentennial, so sequecentennial is 35 times as rare as the third most common spelling, and is outnumbered by not much less than 16000:1 by the other spellings.

    NOW we know who needs a new project 🙂

    WOTD: Bifurcated

    No idea why I thought of it...

    Peter Trast
    Microsoft Certified ...(insert many literal strings here)
    Microsoft Design Architect with Alexander Open Systems

  • Someday, a pyschology student is going to come across this thread and use it as an example for his/her thesis about how IT people's minds work. And the conclusion of that thesis will be ... well, more interesting than any of us can anticipate.

    WOTD: tricycle

    Brandie Tarvin, MCITP Database AdministratorLiveJournal Blog: http://brandietarvin.livejournal.com/[/url]On LinkedIn!, Google+, and Twitter.Freelance Writer: ShadowrunLatchkeys: Nevermore, Latchkeys: The Bootleg War, and Latchkeys: Roscoes in the Night are now available on Nook and Kindle.

  • Brandie Tarvin (2/28/2011)


    Someday, a pyschology student is going to come across this thread and use it as an example for his/her thesis about how IT people's minds work. And the conclusion of that thesis will be ... well, more interesting than any of us can anticipate.

    WOTD: tricycle

    Quadriplegic

    Peter Trast
    Microsoft Certified ...(insert many literal strings here)
    Microsoft Design Architect with Alexander Open Systems

  • Value

    Jason...AKA CirqueDeSQLeil
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    I have given a name to my pain...MCM SQL Server, MVP
    SQL RNNR
    Posting Performance Based Questions - Gail Shaw[/url]
    Learn Extended Events

  • Peter Trast (2/28/2011)


    Brandie Tarvin (2/28/2011)


    Someday, a pyschology student is going to come across this thread and use it as an example for his/her thesis about how IT people's minds work. And the conclusion of that thesis will be ... well, more interesting than any of us can anticipate.

    WOTD: tricycle

    Quadriplegic

    Quintessential 😀 I know, it's cheating...

    Peter Trast
    Microsoft Certified ...(insert many literal strings here)
    Microsoft Design Architect with Alexander Open Systems

  • sun

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  • Ray K (3/1/2011)


    sun

    Apollo (hard at work!) 😉

    Joe

  • crookj (3/1/2011)


    Ray K (3/1/2011)


    sun

    Apollo (hard at work!) 😉

    Joe

    Zeus

    Jason...AKA CirqueDeSQLeil
    _______________________________________________
    I have given a name to my pain...MCM SQL Server, MVP
    SQL RNNR
    Posting Performance Based Questions - Gail Shaw[/url]
    Learn Extended Events

  • Minerva

    Brandie Tarvin, MCITP Database AdministratorLiveJournal Blog: http://brandietarvin.livejournal.com/[/url]On LinkedIn!, Google+, and Twitter.Freelance Writer: ShadowrunLatchkeys: Nevermore, Latchkeys: The Bootleg War, and Latchkeys: Roscoes in the Night are now available on Nook and Kindle.

  • Brandie Tarvin (3/1/2011)


    Minerva

    Yunerva

    Jason...AKA CirqueDeSQLeil
    _______________________________________________
    I have given a name to my pain...MCM SQL Server, MVP
    SQL RNNR
    Posting Performance Based Questions - Gail Shaw[/url]
    Learn Extended Events

  • CirquedeSQLeil (3/1/2011)


    Brandie Tarvin (3/1/2011)


    Minerva

    Yunerva

    Ournerva

  • Brandie Tarvin (3/1/2011)


    Minerva

    Athena

    -- Kit

  • Sun + gods = Golf gods

    John Rowan

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