Use of Ort for the food left uneaten on my plate Orts has become a technical term in animal husbandry and nutrition science to mean the feed leftover after voluntary feeding in various trials or experiments These scraps and orts from the word history of orts suggest that modern usage is restricted to this expression and the technical, veterinarian use
Sport vs Sports Origin - English Language Usage Stack Exchange I was recently reading this article on the use of "math" vs "maths" as a collective noun (Americans use the former, Brits the latter) However, the trend seen in "math maths" is reversed in "sport
Derogatory word or idiom for city dwellers or people who arent adapted . . . Rural Catalans sometimes refer to Barcelonins as 'pixapins' (pronounced 'pishapins') which literally means 'pine-pissers' - people who urinate on pine trees Presumably country folk are more discreet (The term 'cagahorts' (pr 'caga-orts', meaning 'garden-shitter') was supposedly coined in response )