FYI: Persian alphabet is derived from, and looks similar to, the Arabic script but the written languages are certainly distinguishable. Being able to distinguish might require some expertise -- I can't do it anyway. Also, the Persian (or Perso-Arabic) script is used by many other languages.
The English alphabet has 26 letters, mind you, giving 26^3 = 17576.
There could be more! Eg. the Estonian alphabet has 32 letters (including "foreign ones"), thus 32768 combinations. For more, you could mine Chinese characters. A dictionary called "Yitizi Zidian" is said to contain 106230 characters, giving 1198785674367000 three-character sequences.
Let's see... I have been postponing buying a blu-ray player or drive until the protection is broken. Maybe a manufacturer will get my money if this is true!
"Cough" doesn't come from German, it comes, ie. is inherited, from *Germanic*. Apparently cognate words exist in Dutch and German. You're right about the probable Old English pronunciation, with a guttural "kh" sound. Also, nearly all words with "gh" pronouned as [f] or mute had such a sound originally.
Is it spelled potahto or potayto? Cah or car or core or cower? Chimney or chimbley? Wash or warsh? Unlike Spanish, the regional dialects of American English put the kibosh on your idea.
That's a good argument against "phonetic spelling reform" because *whose English would you base it on*? It would be inconvenient to some if "marry", "merry" and "Mary" were spelt identically. Personally, I'd get rid of some quirks, like "debt" instead of "det" or "dette".
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eg.
zappy
zealous
zesty
zoomy
zygomatic
Take your pick: http://en.wiktionary.org/w/index.php?title=Category:English_adjectives&from=z
But fungi are closer to animals than plants! It should be easier to cross a dog with a champignon. Or a fly with a fly agaric.
http://tolweb.org/Eukaryotes/3
It would be nice to have luminiscent coniferous trees for us in more northern latitudes.
You could try Scroogle, "the Google scraper" (if you trust the guy who is Google Watch).
https://ssl.scroogle.org/
Incidentally, I would think that a webpage about media where someone has two mums is SFW, for example, at GLAAD or IGRA...
http://www.glaad.org/
http://www.igra.com/
We use alarms for deaf people with a vibrator element [...]
Best thing I ever had.
That's what she said!
Sounds like we need a new, and truly open, language and runtime for the 21st century.
You could try perl, and do everything with one-liners.
http://xkcd.com/329/
"Hit Turing right in the test-ees."
Perhaps, some elements like water and carbon dioxide.
You've just got big bacteria.
Fecal bacteriotherapy is administered per anum, fortunately.
Didn't you know wifi eats babies? http://www.tikirobot.net/wp/2007/11/04/sf-prop-j-zomg-wifi-eats-babies11/
(Originally by wellingtongrey.net)
Many people *do* use Ooo for real word use in the real world.
I actually like Gnumeric better for some spreadsheeting [1] better than Ooo Calc. http://projects.gnome.org/gnumeric/
[1] Note that verbing is cool!
FYI: Persian alphabet is derived from, and looks similar to, the Arabic script but the written languages are certainly distinguishable. Being able to distinguish might require some expertise -- I can't do it anyway. Also, the Persian (or Perso-Arabic) script is used by many other languages.
Wikipedia knows these things:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perso-Arabic_script
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arabic_alphabet
I thought this would be about tiny cameras fitted on male bees.
But that can't be anthropogenic!
It should be "DoubleGNULinux"!
The English alphabet has 26 letters, mind you, giving 26^3 = 17576.
There could be more! Eg. the Estonian alphabet has 32 letters (including "foreign ones"), thus 32768 combinations. For more, you could mine Chinese characters. A dictionary called "Yitizi Zidian" is said to contain 106230 characters, giving 1198785674367000 three-character sequences.
(source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_character#Number_of_Chinese_characters )
This is bad news for pod people :(
Dextrose is actually another name for glucose. Even Wikipedia says so!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glucose
Dextrose is D-glucose, to be exact, but that's the form (stereoisomer) that is bonded to a fructose in sucrose anyway.
Check out the new hit movie, Shurikens on a Plane!
Let's see... I have been postponing buying a blu-ray player or drive until the protection is broken. Maybe a manufacturer will get my money if this is true!
"Cough" doesn't come from German, it comes, ie. is inherited, from *Germanic*. Apparently cognate words exist in Dutch and German. You're right about the probable Old English pronunciation, with a guttural "kh" sound. Also, nearly all words with "gh" pronouned as [f] or mute had such a sound originally.
cough on etymonline
cough at Wiktionary
That's a good argument against "phonetic spelling reform" because *whose English would you base it on*? It would be inconvenient to some if "marry", "merry" and "Mary" were spelt identically. Personally, I'd get rid of some quirks, like "debt" instead of "det" or "dette".
A cannon might annoy your neighbours at night, though.
I'm neither your NTSC.