Results: REAL Pop Culture
Are you reelin' in the years...
Stowin' away the time ...
Are you gatherin' up the tears...
Have you had enough of mine ...
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Pretty, fairly, really, real, very, and quite. As adjectives the difference between real and very is that real is that can be characterized as a confirmation of truth while very is true, real, actual. As adverbs the difference between real and very is that real is (us|colloquial) really while very is to a great extent or degree; extremely; exceedingly. When speaking, non-formally, which words would you normally use?
Pretty
35%
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621 votes
Fairly
27%
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477 votes
Really
51%
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901 votes
Real
26%
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466 votes
Very
41%
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717 votes
Quite
28%
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488 votes
N/A
21%
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375 votes
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2.
And from these phrases, which ones have you ever used?
Really?
62%
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1101 votes
For reals?
11%
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196 votes
Surely, you gest
14%
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252 votes
Say it isn't so
19%
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333 votes
What?
56%
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988 votes
Go on
22%
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392 votes
Come on
42%
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741 votes
Seriously?
61%
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1069 votes
Cereals?
2%
•
44 votes
Get out of here
27%
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479 votes
Get real!
24%
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420 votes
TF?
6%
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113 votes
N/A
14%
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252 votes
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3.
Here is a list where the use of the word, "Real" has become part of pop culture. Check off the ones that you know:
Coke! It's The Real Thing
58%
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1027 votes
Billy Mummy in Twilight Zone, whose potential victims tell him, 'It's real good thing you're doing'.
9%
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162 votes
In real time; watching or listening to something as it happens;
38%
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677 votes
He's The Real Slim Shady -- song by Eminem; meaning he is the real deal
24%
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418 votes
The Real McCoy -- A dispute between two branches of the Scots Clan Mackay over who was rightful leader. Lord Reay headed one branch and he came to be known as the Reay Mackay which migrated to 'the real McCoy'
49%
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868 votes
The Real Don Steele -- Don Steele was one of the most popular disc jockeys in the United States, from the middle of the 1960s until his retirement (for health reasons) in May 1997
5%
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89 votes
N/A
23%
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404 votes
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4.
Last, check off what you've ever experienced: You've encountered something that was A Real Dilly
14%
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241 votes
Been out with a date who turned out to be A Real Dynamo
7%
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127 votes
You make a mistake, and someone tells you, That Was A Real Howler
7%
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127 votes
You've said to someone, Real Men Don't Eat Quiche
8%
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148 votes
You know someone is lying and you tell them, Keep It Real
21%
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376 votes
N/A
58%
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1028 votes
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