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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- abbreviation commerce
- abbreviation commission
- abbreviation committee
- abbreviation communication
- abbreviation communications
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** Following the publication of my Fortean Times article on aquatic cryptids (Naish 2000) several responses appeared accusing me of ‘[dismissing] the whole cryptozoology field and sea serpents in particular’ (pers.comm. from a correspondent).
Archive 2006-04-01 Darren Naish 2006
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If the latter case is valid (it was only reported to Shine et al. as a pers.comm. from a Sumatran snake-skinner, and is thus an unverified anecdote), then it would be a new world record, as the largest verified mammal meal according to Carwardine’s Guinness Book of Animals Records was a 59 kg impala eaten by an African rock python Python sebae.
Archive 2006-02-01 Darren Naish 2006
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