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4. Nimbostratus accumulation always generates torrential quantities of precipitation. 4. When it rains it pours. I would dabate that. "Nimbostratus" is a particular type of cloud, which isn't mentioned in the abbreviated version of
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Maria: I sort of remember making that post. I wasn't not calm. You're getting too carried away. "Morons," "stupid," and "losers" in a conversation about the plural of "Lego" is overreaction, plain
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You are right, it is mostly quiet there. But a comma would be nice. (I am trying to avoid skitticisms here...) You want a comma in "four of the islands in the chain that goes along the coast happen to belong to it"? There is only one
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in an English-speaking community. Of course, some of these examples may be do to poor editing, This, on the other hand, is just poor typing. Not a grammatical error at all. Evan Kirshenbaum + HP Laboratories >When correctly viewed, 1501 Page
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The most important question is how you can continue to insist that "use(d) to" is an indivisible form in the face of much evidence that it can be, and is, divided. Said evidence not including people actually coming forward and saying
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the scores pertain to a numerical analysis; it can in this context be quite perfect (for insiders, I *am* aware of loss of precision due to floating point computations). I've included 'outstanding' in the updated list below, but it
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the scores pertain to a numerical analysis; it can in this context be quite perfect (for insiders, I *am* aware of loss of precision due to floating point computations). I've included 'outstanding' in the updated list below, but it
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Have you an opinion of whether 'borking' implies unfairness, beyond publicizing? The dictionary I quoted seemed to be neutral, as was Jill Ireland's original use, about borking Clarence Thomas. - I will return to that below, among the
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richard ulrich
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Zorry, I made a zpelling error. Because you are, perhaps, from Zomerzet? Cheers. Regards, Frank Young (Email Removed) 703-527-7684 Post Office Box 2793, Kensington, Maryland 20891 "Videmus nunc per speculum in aenigmate... Nunc cognosco ex
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What you're really asking is "Will somebody please do my homework for me?" If this is because of laziness, why ... the ability to solve these problems, how is getting top marks through somebody else's efforts going to improve
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