See TW on Wiktionary
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"etymology_text": "Perhaps from the Telex input method where the W key is pressed to type the letter ư or to add the diacritical side horn to an already typed u to form the ư, and intended to be this way to distinguish from tư as an actual word, or to make \"non-word\" abbreviations easier to type with common keyboard programs that do not recognize them as Vietnamese.",
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"args": {
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"2": "adjective",
"3": "",
"4": "",
"5": "",
"6": "",
"7": "",
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},
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"word": "trung ương"
}
],
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"Pages with entries",
"Vietnamese 2-letter abbreviations",
"Vietnamese abbreviations",
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"Vietnamese entries with incorrect language header",
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],
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],
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"trung ương#Vietnamese"
]
],
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],
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]
}
],
"word": "TW"
}
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"called_from": "form_descriptions/1831",
"msg": "unrecognized sense qualifier: LGBTQ",
"path": [
"TW"
],
"section": "English",
"subsection": "noun",
"title": "TW",
"trace": ""
}
{
"called_from": "form_descriptions/1831",
"msg": "unrecognized sense qualifier: LGBTQ",
"path": [
"TW"
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"section": "English",
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}
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