what is the shape of the word and are there any explanations why?
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the world is roughly spherical, (a ball) and the reason for this is because something as big as earth pulls itself toogether so that everything falls to the center of the sphere, if there were a substantially eneven spot on the earth (let's say a huge spike 40 miles high) it would most likely fall down into place. I magine a bunch of rocks that are pulling themselves together one rock sticks to the other you have two rocks keep on going now you have three so on and so on. If you take a bunch of weird shape magnets they'll stick together in the shape of a ball because they'll all want to be as close as possible and the only way to do that is a sphere since every point in the surface to the center will give you the same distance. Same as if you pushed clay from every side with equal force it'd form a ball.\n\nDUDE!!! PICK A BEST ANSWER!!!!
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This is one of the 'biggest' questions to answer I've seen here! \n\nSimply word origin is about where words originally came from and there are so many sources it's impossible to list them all here but, for English, you'll often find the sources are Latin, Greek, Old English, Middle English, German, French etc.\n\nHow they originated is much more difficult, for example we know the word 'sandwich' originated because is was the Earl of Sandwich who first thought of putting meat between two slices of bread but it is very rarely that we can pinpoint the first use of a word and thus its individual point of origin so accurately.\n\nHowever it is often possible to trace how the meanings of words have developed over time.\n\nIf you want to look further into the subject you might try the Shorter Oxford English Dictionary on Historical Principles (probably available in libraries), which gives the first known use for thousands of words and often traces their development in meaning over the years. Other dictionaries may have a similar approach and you will often find (L), (Gr) etc. in small italics after the word in most dictionaries, indicating the language they come from (Latin and Greek in those two examples) - check the list of abbreviations (usually at the beginning of the dictionary).\n\nHope this helps...
143020
the word is "fractal". Go look it up.
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If something "fits you to a T" then it's perfect for you. The derivation of the expression is not known for certain, but it may have something to do with the T-square, which is used to create absolutely perfect right angles.\n\nOthers think that the T stands for "title," a very small, precise pen stroke or printer's mark.
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The first means something like "woah."\n\nCheck out the following link, which provides a helpful little cheatsheet.
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Good question.  It's because of the consonant sound that the vowel "u" makes in both words ("yu", consonant sound of "y-").  You already know the rule for articles that preceed a word - use "a" if the word starts with a consonant (or consonant sound), and "an" if the following word begins with a vowel or womel sound.\n\nThat's why.  English is bizarre.
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Language is constantly evolving. Sometimes the accepted spelling changes, sometimes so rapidly that it actually occurs between your typing and the words reaching the screen. \nSometimes, however, it's more a matter of an evil computer who awoke on the wrong side of the bed that day.
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t-shirt was named like that because it was shaped like letter "T". it doesn't have any other meaning. so don't get confused.\n^__^
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A and W. The letters are the first letters of the words in the question. And Why :)
13681
Because the word is E-leven, not A-leven, I-leven, O-leven, U-leven, or sometimes Y-leven.  Geesh.  Isn't that obvious?
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If this is a clue from a cryptic crossword puzzle, do you have any letters?\n\nAlso, does it have to be ONE word or could it be several?
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If you are talking about the English language there are 2 words that have w and their vowel. one is "cwm" which is a basin found @ the base of a mountain sometimes has a lake near by .  the other one is "crwth" which is a Celtic musical instrument. These words usually only come up on extremely difficult crossword puzzles. good luck
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Here's a website on word origins that has a few suggestions:\n\nhttp://www.phrases.org.uk/bulletin_board/5/messages/97.html
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shape is anything that has a closed where the open and end meet if it is a closed ending then it is a shape it may not have a name like square or triangle but it is indeed a shape
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Probably because after you first process the word visually and aurally, you start to think of connotations and implications and how it came to be a word or what it would look like backwards, and if you are a creative person it turns more into a word puzzle that needs to be figured out, like a modern sculpture. Or if you mean you say it repeatedly without being in proper context of a sentence of some kind, then it just becomes a group of phonemes and vowels.
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The word doesn't have a prefix. It has a sufix - 'oid' attached to the root word 'human'. The suffix 'oid' means 'related to' or possessing the characteristics of'.
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I didn't find much about that term, but what I did find suggested that it has something to do with the tongue.  Sorry I couldn't be of more help.