Word: quirks
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Additional strong running performances and personal records were turned in by junior Devon Lyons-Quirk and freshmen Conor Wilson...
...Lyons-Quirk ran a personal record in the 3000m for the second straight meet, having lowered his time in the race by 19 seconds in the last two weeks, vaulting himself into the competition to score in this event at Heptagonals...
Many of us are in job-hunting season right now, and mid-year graduates are about to get their diplomas. This strange Harvardian quirk, the A.B., for artis baccaluareus, according to the Registrar, does not go unnoticed. Applying for journalism jobs, I’ve always been hesitant to write A.B. lest some employer think that I’ve made some careless typo...
Ordinary: Actively terrible, but in a typically Australian vernacular quirk, the term is usually accompanied by a moderator which should not be in any way regarded as diminishing the insult (e.g., That’s a bit ordinary, isn’t it?). Note also in this example the very Australian transformation of an adamant statement into a rhetorical question...
What would you consider to be your biggest quirk...