VULGAR ERRORS

  

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VULGAR ERRORS

Specialty Definition: VULGAR ERRORS

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Vulgar Errors
Aristotle taught that women have more teeth than men.
From an account given in Genesis ii. 21 it was once generally believed that a woman has one rib more than a man.
It is a vulgar error to suppose that beetles and moles are blind.
It is a vulgar error to suppose that lowly-organised animals are as sensible of pain as the highly-organised are.
To exhaust the subject of vulgar errors would require many pages of this Dictionary. Every reader will be able to add to the few examples given above. (See Upas Tree.). Source: Brewer's Dictionary.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Crosswords: VULGAR ERRORS

Specialty definitions using "VULGAR ERRORS": Garlick. (references)

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Modern Translation: VULGAR ERRORS

Language Translations for "VULGAR ERRORS"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Hungarian

  

elterjedt tévhit. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ulgarvay errorsay

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: VULGAR ERRORS

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-e-g-l-o-r-r-r-r-s-u-v"

-4 letters: gravures, regulars, savourer, vorlages, vulgarer.

-5 letters: aerugos, arguers, arouser, galores, gaolers, glovers, gravels, gravers, gravure, grouser, grovels, louvers, louvres, lovages, regular, roarers, rugolas, savorer, sevruga, surreal, valours, valuers, velours, verglas, voguers, vorlage, vulgars.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Crosswords
2. Translations: Modern
3. Anagrams
4. Bibliography


  

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