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March 8

Glove

Is there any word other than glove that has the word love in it? ChemWarfare (talk) 03:06, 8 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Clove, lovely, plover, pullover, ~~pushover~~. Loraof (talk) 03:14, 8 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Pushover??. Of course, clove, I don't think lovely counts, I had never heard of a Plover and did not think about Pullover. Are there any others? Thank you. ChemWarfare (talk) 03:33, 8 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Clover, slovenly. HiLo48 (talk) 04:07, 8 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Also Cloven, rollover, boilover and spillover. As well there is Paloverde and foxglove. Others are just variations on these words?. Thanks ChemWarfare (talk) 06:02, 8 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Also allover and Lovelock. And Google 'words containing "love"' to see if all the bases are covered. ←Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots→ 06:24, 8 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

I did not know allover could be used as one word!. lovelock is just an extension of the word love, I was thinking about unrelated words. Thank you ChemWarfare (talk) 11:27, 8 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

There are a large number. The word list on the UNIX machine I'm using (a list that includes a lot of very uncommon words) has 108 matches besides "love" itself: afterlove, allover, auriculoventricular, auriculovertical, belove, beloved, boilover, booklover, clove, cloven, clovene, clover, clovered, cloverlay, cloverleaf, cloveroot, cloverroot, clovery, colove, counterlove, cyclovertebral, dislove, drawglove, foxglove, glove, gloveless, glovelike, glovemaker, glovemaking, glover, gloveress, glovey, ladylove, lovebird, loveflower, loveful, lovelass, loveless, lovelessly, lovelessness, lovelihead, lovelily, loveliness, loveling, lovelock, lovelorn, lovelornness, lovely, loveman, lovemate, lovemonger, loveproof, lover, loverdom, lovered, loverhood, lovering, loverless, loverliness, loverly, lovership, loverwise, lovesick, lovesickness, lovesome, lovesomely, lovesomeness, loveworth, loveworthy, misbelove, nonlover, outlove, overlove, overlover, paloverde, papulovesicular, plover, ploverlike, plovery, popglove, prebeloved, rebelove, reglove, relove, reticulovenose, scapulovertebral, sloven, slovenlike, slovenliness, slovenly, slovenwood, subclover, superbeloved, truelove, unbeloved, uncloven, unglove, ungloved, unlove, unloveable, unloveableness, unloveably, unloved, unlovelily, unloveliness, unlovely, unloverlike, unloverly.

Or you could go to onelook.com and try this search (and subsequent screens via the "Next page" link). However, onelook.com searches a number of sources that are not actual dictionaries. It also searches for phrases as well as single words: I selected the "sort by length" option on that search so that the single words would tend to be at the beginning, but as you go through the list, you will see more and more phrases, which are irrelevant to the question. --76.69.46.228 (talk) 08:22, 8 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Medical terms like papulovesicular I probably would never have come across. Thank you. ChemWarfare (talk) 11:27, 8 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Teach a man to fish.... There are various large text files on the web that are described as lists of English words. Their tolerance for proper names, odd spellings, typos, etc varies quite a bit, so you should approach each sceptically. What most share is that there's one "word" per line. Now get hold of the utility grep. (If you're using Linux, you already have it; if you're using Windows or macOS, it's available free.) Right then, now at the command prompt (or whatever it's called in your particular OS), once you've got your monster ginormous list of (putative) English words, type:

grep "love" monsterginormouslistofenglishwords.txt > lovewords.txt

(I assume here that what needs to be on the path is on the path, etc.)

There are other and (depending on your purpose) perhaps better ways to get a list. One is to go to one of the BYU corpora, for example COCA (COCA, new address!), and (after increasing the number of hits that you want) type in "*love*" (without the quotation marks). -- Hoary (talk) 00:57, 9 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

aspell dump master en ( | grep love etc) works too Aecho6Ee (talk) 11:28, 13 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

There's also a country whose name has "love" in it: Slovenia. --Theurgist (talk) 12:08, 9 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

And there's a Wikipedia editor full of love: me. Say, Hoary, Theurgist, 76.69.46.228, do any of you know what happened to that Google Books tool, that allowed you to search a word in their corpus and derive a timeline from it? Thanks, Drmies (talk) 14:20, 14 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

I'm not aware that anything happened to it, Drmies. -- Hoary (talk) 22:40, 14 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

A report in Brazilian Portuguese

A sentence in Proposed acquisition of 21st Century Fox by Disney#Pay television industry reads "On August 29, 2018, Fox's Brazilian channels were expected to dissolve within seven years after the Disney acquisition, pending approval from the Administrative Council for Economic Defense". It cited a news report in Brazilian Portuguese. I'm not that fluent in Portuguese, so I don't know if the article was misinterpreted or not. Can someone fluent in Brazilian Portuguese translate the report? JSH-alive/^{talk/cont/mail} 17:05, 8 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

@JSH-alive: I'm not fluent in English, but I confirm what you wrote. It's not misinterpreted. --Hume42 (talk) 04:19, 9 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

@Hume42: Even if you are right, the sentence has to be rewritten. Is the article an interview with an expert, or an opinion piece? JSH-alive/^{talk/cont/mail} 14:03, 9 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

@JSH-alive: It is an article interview with experts (altough some sources are anonymous). In the end of the article, ESPN Departament of Comunication itself reported the acquisition is in progress (approval, more especificly). By these facts, you can yourself rewritten the sentence. --Hume42 (talk) 14:11, 10 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

cc @Viakenny: I need your help. JSH-alive/^{talk/cont/mail} 08:05, 10 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Hard Luck

I am trying to get Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Hard Luck promoted to a good article. However, I could use some more sources. Are there any books, magazines, or other media that contain reviews of the book or interviews with Jeff Kinney, the author of the book? Scrooge200 (talk) 23:42, 8 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]