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   CSB ≡ Comic Strip Blogger (csb@noagendasocial.com)'s status on Wednesday, 27-Dec-2023 21:48:04 JST CSB ≡ Comic Strip Blogger

   English native speakers, is the word “victor” part of the language? I was arguing with certain native speaker that it’s not , I claimed yez, they claimed: not, but look, it looks like it is:

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     pistolero :thispersondoesnotexist: (p@freespeechextremist.com)'s status on Wednesday, 27-Dec-2023 21:48:02 JST pistolero :thispersondoesnotexist:

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     > is the word “victor” part of the language?
     
     Yes: https://www.gutenberg.org/files/669/669-h/669-h.htm .
     
     Allegedly attested from mid-1300s: https://www.etymonline.com/word/victor .
     
     > I was arguing with certain native speaker that it’s not
     
     I wonder what kind of native speaker of English doesn't know "victor" or at least "victory".
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     Partisan Night Slut (pns@noagendasocial.com)'s status on Wednesday, 27-Dec-2023 21:48:14 JST Partisan Night Slut

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     Of course it's a noun.

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     CSB ≡ Comic Strip Blogger (csb@noagendasocial.com)'s status on Wednesday, 27-Dec-2023 21:54:10 JST CSB ≡ Comic Strip Blogger

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     @p from british isles

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     pistolero :thispersondoesnotexist: (p@freespeechextremist.com)'s status on Wednesday, 27-Dec-2023 21:57:29 JST pistolero :thispersondoesnotexist:

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     @CSB Winston Churchill used to give the "V" sign all the time. The British radio used Beethoven's Fifth during WW2 because it sounded like dot-dot-dot-dash, which was "V" in Morse Code.
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     Suzu (suzu@varishangout.net)'s status on Wednesday, 27-Dec-2023 22:06:01 JST Suzu

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     @p @CSB someone who always lost?
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     @Suzu @CSB oof
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     CSB ≡ Comic Strip Blogger (csb@noagendasocial.com)'s status on Wednesday, 27-Dec-2023 22:11:04 JST CSB ≡ Comic Strip Blogger

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     @p

     wrong, you don't understand

     i only asked about "victor" word being or not in vocabulary of english, not about signs etc

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     pistolero :thispersondoesnotexist: (p@freespeechextremist.com)'s status on Wednesday, 27-Dec-2023 22:12:31 JST pistolero :thispersondoesnotexist:

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     @CSB I mean that, since those signs were based on the word being common English, it is strange to think someone would say that the word was not English.
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     CSB ≡ Comic Strip Blogger (csb@noagendasocial.com)'s status on Wednesday, 27-Dec-2023 22:51:41 JST CSB ≡ Comic Strip Blogger

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     @p but thanks for trying to answer

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