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I literally just learned "bog-standard" 10 minutes ago and now I see it here. And no, don't Baader-Meinhof me, I would have noticed this weird term in random text in the past.


Would you though? Appears at least once a week: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...


>I would have noticed this weird term in random text in the past.

Well, no so weird, I'm not a native english speaker, and I've seen the term hundreds of times over the years...

It's also quite common on HN:

https://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Anews.ycombinator.com+...


I'm aware of the terms "bog" and "bog-standard", but not being from the UK, I'm not sure what is so standard about bogs.


Baader-Meinhof denial!


Baader-Meinhof Dunning-Kruger?




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