Thursday, July 25, 2013

Confusion

Upon reading this Kevin Drum post about the Amash amendment, I noted the interesting spelling of the plural of "No". I looked up "Noes" on Urban Dictionary and was even more confused to read about the definition of "Megahurtz." Slang is getting more and more chemistry-ish these days:


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4 comments:

  1. AnonymousJuly 25, 2013 at 9:36 PM

    Aren't "ayes" & "noes" slang of voting?

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  2. bad wolfJuly 25, 2013 at 9:59 PM

    Shouldn't that be "nays"?

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  3. qvxbJuly 26, 2013 at 7:48 AM

    According to the Microsoft Bookshelf dictionary, "noes" is the plural of "no".

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  4. AnonymousJuly 26, 2013 at 2:27 PM

    It should be Ayes and Nays

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