# Terminology: topics vs threads

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/terminology-topics-vs-threads/63390
**Category:** UX
**Created:** [5월 25, 2017, 9:00오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/terminology-topics-vs-threads/63390 "2017-05-25T21:00:52Z")
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### Author: ![tophee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/tophee/32/73406_2.png) [@tophee](https://meta.discourse.org/u/tophee)
#### Post date: [4월 9, 2018, 8:26오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/terminology-topics-vs-threads/63390/10 "2018-04-09T20:26:59Z")

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> [@david](#):
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> (^^Onebox is not working because I had to remove the word t h r e a d from the URL

Haha, there is a way:

> [@Why is the word "thread" not allowed on Meta?](https://meta.discourse.org/t/blah/82156):
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> Why is the word, “threa.d” not allowed? I’m curious. Just tried to use it in a private message. And, lol the F bomb just auto corrected into a PM I was writing. Oops.

Now what do you say? 🕶

> [@BlackKnob](#):
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> why is “t h r e a d” a banned word?

I’d say this one is the crucial post:

> [@Why is the word "thread" not allowed on Meta?](https://meta.discourse.org/t/why-is-the-word-thread-not-allowed-on-meta/82156/9):
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> This is also a bit of a dogfooding experiment, not a lifelong policy to be forever engraved in a stone monument on a mountaintop.

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