@CopperKettle I think it was more like hundreds, maybe; it must've taken them like dozens of time before they was able to get the device from the General.
@DamkerngT. Not that long; it's just cobalt(3+);[(2R,3S,4R,5S)-5-(5,6-dimethylbenzimidazol-1-yl)-4-hydroxy-2-(hydroxymethyl)oxolan-3-yl] [(2R)-1-[3-[(1R,2R,3R,5Z,7S,10Z,12S,13S,15Z,17S,18S,19R)-2,13,18-tris(2-amino-2-oxoethyl)-7,12,17-tris(3-amino-3-oxopropyl)-3,5,8,8,13,15,18,19-octamethyl-2,7,12,17-tetrahydro-1H-corrin-24-id-3-yl]propanoylamino]propan-2-yl] phosphate;cyanide.
Well, I'll leave it to you to judge which it is, citing Clayden:
> But perhaps the worst smell ever recorded was that which caused the evacuation of the German city of Freiburg in 1889. Attempts to make thioacetone by the cracking of trithioacetone gave rise to ‘an offensive smell which spread rapidly over a great area of the town causing fainting, vomiting, and a panic evacuation...the laboratory work was abandoned’. It was perhaps foolhardy for workers at an Esso research station to repeat the experiment of cracking trithioacetone south of Oxford in 1967. Let them take up the story. ‘Recently we
BTW, this is related to our schwa in "Linkin", I suppose.
@DamkerngT. seat, sit and set are all further apart and lower in Gen Am than in RP. I think SB might be able to give you a reference. She first told me about this and then I went and researched it. But I can't remember where I went to look ... (I knew about set but not sit or seat) — Araucariayesterday
"In English, almost no one says, "I ate from a [time] to a [time]." [incorrect] unless there is something wrong with them (or they are in prison or grade school, where their time is highly structured for them)" -- I'm not sure if that's true.
It sounds too "cultural" for me.
(Basically, it means that nobody does anything routinely anymore.)
"When do you eat?" "I don't know. When I'm hungry, I suppose."
I have a question about phrases like this one:
John pushed Jane against the wall.
The verb push refers to an active state of movement
push down the street
the preposition against implies a stationary state
the ladder against the wall
So the phrase
pushed Jane against
is c...
*a*t hearing one h*a*s got a fortune. . . *a*t last . . . whom I h*a*d never heard . . . *a*t a table . .(Jane Eyre)
If Jim Dale who reads Harry Potter series had read Jane Eyre, I think, he would have pronounced all the a sounds as schwa /ə/; yet a record on Librivox.org has the /ӕ/ sounds....
I have a question about phrases like this one:
John pushed Jane against the wall.
The verb push refers to an active state of movement
push down the street
the preposition against implies a stationary state
the ladder against the wall
So the phrase
pushed Jane against
is c...
*a*t hearing one h*a*s got a fortune. . . *a*t last . . . whom I h*a*d never heard . . . *a*t a table . .(Jane Eyre)
If Jim Dale who reads Harry Potter series had read Jane Eyre, I think, he would have pronounced all the a sounds as schwa /ə/; yet a record on Librivox.org has the /ӕ/ sounds....
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