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This is very funny. At least one of the resulting words is sufficiently attested to have been recorded by Wiktionary. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/medireview
by robinhouston 4y ago
This is very funny. At least one of the resulting words is sufficiently attested to have been recorded by Wiktionary.
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/medireview https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/medireview
> Etymology: Coined accidentally by Yahoo! Mail in 2001, from medieval by automated string substitution of review for eval, a Javascript command short for evaluate.
- re 4y agomedireview =~ s/review/eval/ Medieval is one of those words that I have never been able to remember how to spell, maybe this will be a mnemonic that sticks.
- somebodynew 4y agoI had the same problem and eventually settled on "medical evaluation" as a mnemonic.
- IncRnd 4y agoA mnemonic that suits more cases is, "i before e, except after c."
- cratermoon 4y agoThat rule has so many exceptions that there's another mnemonic for remembering the exceptions. 1 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_before_E_except_after_C#Exceptions https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_before_E_except_after_C#Exce...