Portuguese: calão (pt) m, jargão (pt) m, gíria (pt) f.Polish: slang (pl) m, żargon (pl) m, gwara (pl) f.German: Slang (de) m, Jargon (de) m, Umgangssprache (de) f.French: argot (fr) m, langue verte (fr) f, jargon (fr) m.Our fact check work is supported in part by a grant from Facebook. You can subscribe to our print edition, ad-free app or electronic newspaper replica here. Britannica, accessed March 3, Latin alphabet., accessed March 3, 'What Does the Letter 'U' Have to do with 'W'?'.Latin-English Dictionary, accessed March 3, 'Krowemoh' search Latin to English.
The claim that "krowemoh" translates to "child abuse" in Latin was added in January to, a crowdsourced online dictionary of slang words and phrases. Sign up here to start receiving our newsletter. Get these in your inbox: We're fact-checking the news and sending it to your inbox. In Latin, the letter U represented a W sound which could only occur only before a vowel, according to .Įuropean languages that use the Latin alphabet do not use the letters K and W, and they add letters with diacritical marks or pairs of letters that read as one sound, according to Britannica. The classical Latin alphabet consists of 23 characters, and the letter W is not one of them. According to Google translate, child abuse in Latin is actually "puer abusus."Ī search of "krowemoh" on online Latin- to-English dictionaries results in no matches. The word "krowemoh" does not exist in Latin. USA TODAY reached out to the Instagram user for comment.įact check: Altered image shows rhino horns, elephant tusks dyed pink to deter poaching 'Krowemoh' is not a Latin word "I knew that this homework was just a way to abuse children," one Twitter user wrote along with the claim on Jan. The Google search screenshot that users have used to make the claim is taken from a March 7, 2013, viral post that has recently resurfaced on Twitter, where many users have shared similar versions of the claim. The same screenshot included in the Instagram meme also appears in several viral TikToks, and the hashtag #Krowemoh has more than 246,000 views on the platform. 27 Instagram post with almost 18,000 likes features a screenshot of the Google search, "what is homework backwards." The result purportedly reads, "So basically 'Homework' spelled backwards is 'krowemoh' which in Latin translates to child abuse." Some social media users are claiming that the word "homework" spelled backward has a meaning in the Latin language.Ī Feb.
Many words and phrases are known to have different meanings in other languages, and much of the English vocabulary is derived from Latin roots. Watch Video: Parents lobby to get rid of homework The claim: 'Homework' spelled backward means 'child abuse' in Latin
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