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Written by Michael Kinyon on 2024-10-17 at 18:39

I just accidentally typed "snurjective" and now I very much want it to be a mathematical word.

"Snur" was a synonym for "snort", used by the turn-of-the-15th-to-16th-century English poet John Skelton:

https://www.oed.com/dictionary/snur_v

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Written by Martin Escardo on 2024-10-17 at 19:18

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So we could translate this to informal language as "boringly surjective"? Interesting concept.

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Written by theHigherGeometer on 2024-10-17 at 22:51

@ProfKinyon Welcome to the marvellous land of Snurj's [1]

[1] as the inventor of the jif says, it should be pronounced with a hard g.

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Written by Gerard Westendorp on 2024-11-07 at 23:22

@ProfKinyon In Dutch 'snurk' means 'snore'.

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