I think seeing the sentence in context helps to understand it. Stephen Hawking said "The reason most scientists don't believe ... that Hawking's main reason is "experiment". Randi is putting most emphasis on "irrational

Well, now we'll have to decide whether Scotlsnd has its own army and navy. Broad Scots, Scotch, Scots-English, Lallans and other names for sure, but never "Scottish". Did you forget "The Older Scottish Tongue"? That was one

It's also Scottish for "now." "The noo" means "just now." Compare Dutch "nu." Therefore its use in Jeremy Lloyd's poem "The Haggis Season": "...One cries out loudly "There the

It's perfectly fine if "use" has "the woman's leg-shaver thing" as its object (the natural way to read it). No it's not. The natural way to read it is with an elided "that" after "thing", making

Matti Lamprhey filted: But Lucida Console is easier to read than Times Roman or Bookman Old Style...if the only fixed-pitch font were Courier, I wouldn't like it either.. Lucida Console?? Are you dreaming? The l's and i's have bloody

Matti Lamprhey filted: Why on earth should proportional spacing be banned on text-only ... read than fixed-pitch ones, as any typographer will tell you. But Lucida Console is easier to read than Times Roman or Bookman Old Style...if the only

On 21 Oct 2003 09:30:50 -0700, R H Draney (Email Removed) wrote, in part: To be honest he didn't know what epilepsy was but ... With The Syntax There But It Makes Perfect Sense, too.) I can make the syntax perfect if I assume that the final

Another question related to that is something I've always wondered: How do you handle key information that's conveyed only by the speaker's intonation? Sometimes straight transcription can make someone appear to have said almost the

The current version says that you use roughly the same ... made the same mistake in "Lorimer". But I don't know.) I decided it was easier to send Mike a file of me saying my name. I'll let him figure out if the ASCII IPA is

I (in general) have /A/ before a voiced stop (and in ) and /a/ before a voiceless one. That doesn't mean that /A/ and /a/ are different phonemes for you. Can you think of any pair of words, or possible words, that would be distinguished by