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deviosity = 1,610 English pages on Google
deviosity = root beer up my nose
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>And here I thought I was honoring its subtlety by not mentioning it directly.
Forgive me, but I don't see that you mentioned it at all. You did quote the word Dylan from another person's post, though.
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Forgive me
Geez, Vern, lighten up.
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Once again I am late to the discussion but here's my two cents. The "-oid" suffix is used as a diminutive, probably because the more "proper" diminutive suffixes (factette, factling, factin) sound funny. The Spanish diminutive "-ito" would work well here IMO but factoid gets the job done too.
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"And finally, despite what CNN thinks, a factoid is not a small, random fact. That would be a factlet or factette or, for our Latino friends, a factito." ~Matthew Alice, Straight from the Hip, San Diego Reader, December 2000. http://www.sdreader.com/php/ma_show.php?id=120200BO Boyo
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How perfectly he destroys his own case by describing his own assertion: an assertion that is presented as a fact, that many people believe is a fact, but isn’t a fact.
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