What is the D word?

The D-Word is an online community for professionals in the documentary film industry. Discussions include creative, business, technical, and social topics related to documentary filmmaking. The name "D-Word" is defined as "industry euphemism for documentary," as in: "We love your film but we don't know how to sell it.

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What does the D word mean bad word?

(euphemistic) The word douche or douchebag.

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What are the D words?

Some of the D words for kids are dig, door, date, drink, dinosaur, deer, desk, donkey, dart, deep, dance, duck, dip, dab, den, dad, dent, dock, dark, dust, etc.

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Where did the D word come from?

The D-Word started in 1996 as a blog by documentary filmmaker Doug Block. Doug Block was taught how to create a blog by Justin Hall, the subject of Block's 1999 feature documentary, Home Page. Scenes of Hall showing Block how to create the D-word are shown in the film.

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What is a big D?

Noun. big D (plural big Ds) (euphemistic) An instance of the word "damn" or "damnation", regarded as profane.

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What is the e word?

e-word (plural e-words) Any word beginning with e, especially one referring to something electronic, or one that is (often humorously) treated as controversial in a given context (for example, evolution, evangelical or enlightenment). quotations ▼

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Is YEET a word now?

NATIONAL (WCIA) — Yeet, cringe, sus and adorkable are now officially in the dictionary. Merriam-Webster announced Wednesday that it added 370 new words and phrases to its dictionary, including plenty of social media slang.

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What is the oldest swear word?

Fart, as it turns out, is one of the oldest rude words we have in the language: Its first record pops up in roughly 1250, meaning that if you were to travel 800 years back in time just to let one rip, everyone would at least be able to agree upon what that should be called.

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Does Big D mean divorce?

As is the person on Twitter who said it's “The Big D,” because Mark Chesnutt sings, “I'm going through the big D and I don't mean Dallas.” “The big D” is divorce, while “Big D” is the city. I put up a Twitter poll to settle this. Apparently a significant number of the respondents also hail from Oklahoma.

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Why is it called the Big D?

There was a musical in 1956 that popularized Big D with a song that Bing Crosby sang: "Big D, little A, double L-A-S," the tune used to go. The beloved Dallas Morning News writer Paul Crume called his column "Big D" starting in the early 1950s. The name stuck. Folks loved it.

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Where is Big D from?

"Big D" is a song about Dallas, Texas, written by Frank Loesser in 1956 for the musical The Most Happy Fella. It was introduced by Susan Johnson as "Cleo" and Shorty Long as "Herman". The song's refrain spells out "Dallas": "Big D, little A, double L, A, S."

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How is Z actually pronounced?

Saying the Alphabet ?

We say all the letters of the alphabet the same in British English and American English except for Z. In British English we say Zed. In American English we say Zee.

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What does dyke mean in text?

Dyke is a slang term, used as a noun meaning lesbian and as an adjective describing things associated with lesbians. It originated as a homophobic slur for masculine, butch, or androgynous girls or women.

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What 2 words make we d?

We'd is a contraction of either we would, we had or we should.

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What does the term Bad B * * * * mean?

(slang) An independent, confident, and attractive woman.

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What does disgusting D mean?

: causing a strong feeling of dislike or disinclination : causing disgust. the food was disgusting. a disgusting magazine. a disgusting way to treat people.

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How is the F-word bad?

The f-word can be a very hurtful, offensive, mean, and/or vulgar word. However, in adults' conversations and certain situations, it can serve as a comic relief, a colorful method of expressing frustration, surprise, astonishment and friendly-exclamation amongst many other things.

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Who says the F word most?

When host Jimmy Fallon told Jackson that Hill is first on the list, The Banker star replied: “That's some bulls***.” Hill has used a total of 376 curse words in film history, followed by Leonardo DiCaprio who has cursed 361 times. Jackson came in third with 301 curses used throughout his career.

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What does sus really mean?

What to Know. Sus is used as a synonym of suspicious, or suspect, as in “you've been acting pretty sus, I think you're up to something.” It's a slang word used to say that someone or something shouldn't be trusted.

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What does bruh mean slang?

bruh (plural bruhs) (slang) Alternative form of bro (“male comrade or friend”)

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Was YEET used in the 1800s?

4 Yeet has another informal meaning. 5 And yet, another! 9 Usage in the early 1800s.

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Do Australians say zed?

Zed is widely known to be used in British English. But it's also used in almost every English-speaking country. In England, Scotland, Wales, Ireland, Australia, India, Canada (usually), and New Zealand, Z is pronounced as zed. It's derived from the Greek letter zeta.

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Why do Australians say zed?

In most English-speaking countries, including Australia, Canada, India, Ireland, New Zealand and the United Kingdom, the letter's name is zed /zɛd/, reflecting its derivation from the Greek zeta (this dates to Latin, which borrowed Y and Z from Greek), but in American English its name is zee /ziː/, analogous to the ...

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