There's a certain slant of light, On winter afternoons, That oppresses, like the weight Of cathedral tunes.
Heavenly hurt it gives us; We can find no scar, But internal difference Where the meanings are.
None may teach it anything, 'Tis the seal, despair,- An imperial affliction Sent us of the ...
Well I've never understood how to treat the word data.
1) I know it is uncountable so these sentences should be fine:
First:
There is so much data to handle that I
don't really know where starting from.
Second:
He had to work on so much data
produced by those simulations...
2) I...
If I mean "number of lessons", which grammatical construction should I go for? I can imagine three of them:
Lesson count
Lessons count
Lessons' count
We came across this error messages while editing an answers:
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If a posts has been edited one times, should they be "another users" rather than "other users"?
Case in point.
For those too lazy to click, the original Wikipedia article reads:
The Mariana Trench [...] is currently estimated to be up to 10,971 m (35,994 ft) deep. [...] The trench is about 2,550 kilometres (1,580 mi) long but has a mean width of only 69 kilometres (43 mi). It reaches a...
what are classical languages? How they are different from other languages? is English is an example of classical language.
Okay, based only the title, the answer is obvious... allow me to explain.
According to Jeff's statements under this question, the definitions of "reaching the rep cap" and "exceeding the rep cap" are as follows:
reached: earned 200 or more rep purely from upvotes in one day
exceeded: earned 20...
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Kraft Foods Inc. () is the largest confectionery, food, and beverage corporation headquartered in the United States. It markets many brands in more than 155 countries. 11 of its brands annually earn more than $1 billion worldwide: Kraft, Cadbury, Oscar Mayer, Maxwell House, Nabisco, Oreo, Philadelphia Cream Cheese, Jacobs, Milka, LU, and Trident. 40 of its brands are at least 100 years old.
The company is headquartered in Northbrook, Illinois, a Chicago suburb. Its European headquarters is in Glattpark, Opfikon, Switzerland, near Zürich;
Kraft is an independent public company, it is l...
Inverted question and exclamation marks are punctuation marks used to begin interrogative and exclamatory sentences (or clauses), respectively, in written Spanish and sometimes also in languages which have cultural ties with Spanish, such as Galician. They can also be combined in several ways to express the combination of a question and surprise or disbelief. The initial marks are normally mirrored at the end of the sentence or clause by the common marks (?, !) used in most other languages.
Inverted marks were originally recommended by the Real Academia Española (Spanish Royal Academy) ...
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"Yatta!" is a 2001 parody song by a fictional Japanese boy band called . The one word in the song title, ', is the past tense of the Japanese verb yaru ("to do") and is also the familiar short form of yarimashita, an exclamation meaning "It's done!", "I did it!", "Ready!" or "All right!" The song was first performed as a sketch on the Japanese sketch comedy show , known as Silly Go Lucky in the United States, where Happa-tai is portrayed by some of Japan's most well-known comedians.
The video features its members singing and dancing exuberantly while wearing only underwear with a lar...
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The Mariana Trench is the deepest part of the world's oceans, and the lowest elevation of the surface of the Earth's crust. It is currently estimated to be up to deep. It is located in the western Pacific Ocean, to the east of the Mariana Islands. The trench is about long but has a mean width of only . It reaches a maximum-known depth of about at the Vityaz-1 Deep and about at the Challenger Deep, a small slot-shaped valley in its floor, at its southern end. If Mount Everest, the highest mountain on Earth at , were set in the deepest part of the Mariana Trench, there would be of ...
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Peter Noone (born Peter Blair Denis Bernard Noone on 5 November 1947, at Park Hospital, Davyhulme) is an English singer-songwriter, guitarist, pianist and actor, best known as "Herman" of the successful 1960s rock group Herman's Hermits.
Early life
The son of an accountant, Noone attended Wellacre Primary School in Flixton, Urmston and Stretford Grammar School near Manchester. He played a number of acting roles on television, including that of Stanley Fairclough in the soap opera Coronation Street. Noone studied voice and drama at St Bede's College, Manchester and Manchester School of Mu...
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