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| age | 50 | |
| visits | member for | 2 years, 3 months |
| seen | May 11 at 21:25 | |
| stats | profile views | 279 |
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Feb 11 |
answered | What is the opposite of “meta”? |
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Feb 9 |
comment |
What is a good convention for expressing different currencies? GBP is interesting, as it has been the currency of the United Kingdom since 1826 (so why not UKP?) but is issued by the Bank of England, and the banknotes are only legal tender in England and Wales. |
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Feb 8 |
answered | What does the phrase “…it's like Groundhog Day every day” mean, and from whence does it originate? |
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Feb 7 |
comment |
How well known is the word “butler”? Indeed, though Wodehouse's Jeeves was a gentleman's gentleman or valet rather than a butler, even if he could "buttle with the best of them". |
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Feb 7 |
answered | When ending an email, should I use “Yours faithfully” or “Best regards”? |
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Feb 6 |
comment |
Etymology of “regression” Galton later found the reverse, namely that the parents of tall children also tended on average to be taller than the mean of the population but shorter than the mean of their children's heights. So the eugenicist's concern that the population would regress to all being average was wrong in dynamically stable populations, and regression turned out to be the wrong word. Too late by then. |
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Feb 6 |
awarded | Supporter |
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Feb 5 |
answered | When referring to a previously sent text, would you say 'I text you about that' or 'I texted you about that'? |
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Feb 4 |
awarded | Editor |
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Feb 4 |
revised |
Pluralization of currencies like the baht and the ringgit Thai comment |
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Feb 4 |
answered | Pluralization of currencies like the baht and the ringgit |
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Feb 3 |
answered | Verbs of inaction |
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Jan 29 |
awarded | Teacher |
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Jan 29 |
answered | Why do we say “lowest common denominator” when we mean “greatest common divisor”? |
