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I read the English Dictionary in short sections, comment on it, make bad jokes, and sometimes sing little songs. I hope it’s more entertaining than just reading the dictionary alone. It’s an evolving project so the letter ”A” had lower quality, plus less commenting and jokes.
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Wednesday Sep 07, 2022
#D38 (decide to decimal)
Wednesday Sep 07, 2022
Wednesday Sep 07, 2022
I read from decide to decimal.
In America, a "decillion" is a 1 with 33 zeroes behind it but in other areas, it's a 1 with 60 zeroes behind it! Wha?!?!
It turns out they use words with the suffix "-ard" between each of our "-ions" so our "Billion" is their "Milliard", then they have "Billion" (our "Trillion"), then "Billiard" (our "Quadrillion"), then "Trillion" (our "Quintillion"), etc.
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/decillion
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Names_of_large_numbers
The word of the episode is "decidua".
When I read the definition I didn't make the connection that it's in both pregnancy and menstruation. Which really does make sense.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decidua
Theme music from Tom Maslowski
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