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by DonaldFisk 5y ago
Are others getting the same problem? I searched for "Odense Marzipan" on duckduckgo.com, google.com, amazon.com, and amazon.co.uk, and all of them return almond-based sugar sweets in the top links.
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by DonaldFisk 5y ago
In Arabic, numbers from 1-10 are waaHid, ithnayn, thalaatha, arba:a, khamsa, sitta, sab:a, thamaaniya, tis:a, and :ashara. No monosyllabic numbers, and 8 has four syllables . And even these are short compared to the numbers in Inuktitu
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There's a nursery rhyme, Sing a Song of Sixpence, which has "Four and twenty blackbirds baked in a pie", so numbers were once written out in English the same way they are in German. I checked the King James version of the Bib
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There's a nursery rhyme,Sing a Song of Sixpence, which has "Four and twenty blackbirds baked in a pie", so English wrote out numbers the same was German does. The King James version (1605) consistently writes out numbers in t
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This doesn't take into account differences in personal preferences, as it doesn't know what movies I prefer, and so can't compare my preferences to other people's. Not everyone has the same tastes, and personal prefere
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Everyman's right/right to roam only applies in Scotland (see https://www.mygov.scot/scottish-outdoor-access-code for details). There are more limited rights in a few places in England, such as Dartmoor. Elsewh
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>"Corn" still refers to multiple cereals in British English; what Americans call "corn" is "maize". Or so it used to be; perhaps it is changing? In the UK, there are some exceptions, where it specifically r
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Did I miss the falsehood about family name always following personal name? (Doesn't apply to Chinese, Japanese, Korean, or Hungarian names.)
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Also in other Slavic countries, e.g. Poland (-ski/-ska), Iceland (-son/-dottir), and sometimes in Scotland (Mac-/Nic-) and Ireland (Mac-, Ni-).
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Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds: https://web.archive.org/web/20040623130633/http://www.litrix...
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It's nothing to do with expert systems. Whoever wrote it decided to reuse an well-established existing term for their own purposes. The title ran a bell in my head, though. In the mid 1980s, to demonstrate Personal Consultant Plus,
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Why people believe Covid conspiracy theories: could folklore hold the answer?(theguardian.com)
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Interestingly, this was more or less the way that Lenat's program AM discovered numbers, and later arithmetic.
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You'll need car, cdr, cons, atom, and eq. You'll also need ratom and patom for input and output. That's 7 primitive functions. To be able to define recursive functions, you'll also need cond, lambda, setq (or define)
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The number of moths in the UK has declined by 28% since 1968. There are various causes, including use of pesticides and other changes in agricultural practices, destruction of habitat, and anthropogenic climate change. See https:/
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They aren't holes: they're areas of wings with no scales.
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The larvae of only a few species attack clothes, these ones in particular: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tineola_bisselliella https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carpet_moth
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It's the hairs of hairy caterpillars (and, rarely, hairs on some adult moths) which cause dermatitis, rather than scales on adult moths' wings, so its wise to avoid contact with hairy caterpillars. For a list of species to avoid
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Second actor, preceded by Barry Nelson: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0310853/?ref_=fn_tt_tt_14
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Of which Richard Dawkins wrote: “It is one of those books that is either complete rubbish or a work of consummate genius, nothing in between! Probably the former, but I’m hedging my bets.”
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While very little of the writings of Carthaginians has survived, the language itself (Phoenician/Punic) is well understood because a very close relative, which was mutually intelligible with it, has, however, survived: Hebrew. So if
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It's possible it comes from a common ancestor, but it could also be a loan word, or more likely, given that it's so short, a coincidence (i.e. false cognate), like the word for dog in Mbabaram (a native Australian language), which
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You can get the PDP-11/45 Logo manual here: https://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/6226
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I get "Page not found". Archived copy: https://web.archive.org/web/20210520010546/https://www-forma...
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That might conceivably explain the "khazi" spelling but its meaning is unrelated and in any case it isn't the derivation of the word "carsey". See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polari
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A propos of Polari, when I mentioned to someone who used the word "carsey" (often spelt "khazi") that it was gay slang, ultimately derived from Latin "casa" meaning cottage, he insisted that no, it wasn't,
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The original Latin text of Apicius is here: https://web.archive.org/web/20200214163251/http://users.ipa.... Regarding the "toxic recipe" (Absinthium Romanum), I've made and drunk this seve
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There are two recipes for garum/liquamen, which I put translations of, on my old (1997 onwards) Apicius page here: https://web.archive.org/web/20060717021437/http://web.onetel... As someone has alre
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The "unsolicited" seeds from China were discussed here earlier when they was assumed to be part of a brushing scam: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23953944
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> This one could apply to our relationship with China maybe? When the relationship was different from today's, during WW2, the US Army published a Pocket Guide to China: https://archive.org/details/PocketGuideTo

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