Thursday, February 2, 2017

2/2/2017

Welcome to the Guess My Word blog. This is a place to discuss the words of the day chosen by Joon and Mike. This paragraph is here mostly as spoiler space. Here are today's words:

mike's word: slaughter
joon's word: dacron

Discuss.

2 comments:

  1. Isn't Dacron a proper noun, as a trade name?

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  2. I came here to see if anyone else would suggest that. AHD, MW-U, Wikipedia, and my Mac's OAD all say it's capitalized. But it's in the Scrabble Tournament Wordlist.

    The polymer was patented in 1941. I was just surprised to learn that the plastic is the same as used in Mylar.

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