I don't normally answer my own question, but in this case I feel compelled to do so. FumbleFingers' answer — the only answer this question has received — while well-argued and not incorrect, feels like the answer of someone who is faced with a problem he recognizes but cannot solve, and so falls ...

This is definitely an American English/British English thing, as you can't do it in American English but you can in British English. In American English, you can't contract "have" if you are using it as a plain (not a "helping" or "auxiliary") verb. "I've a dog" and "They've a great time" are no...

One can contract I have to I've when have is a helping verb, e.g. I've got an octopus in my pants. Is contracting the main verb technically incorrect or merely antiquated? My father loves to say, I've a month-old smoked shoulder I can cook for dinner, and he sounds like a crazy old ma...

I played Thief in the GW2, but I met a lot of difficulty in the games, so I want to search a good site to help me combine skills or equiment. Do you have any suggestion?

It was a young physical chemist who said to von Neumann, "I'm afraid I don't understand the method of characteristics." To which he replied, "Young man, in mathematics you don't understand things. You just get used to them." As Hurkyl quoted Einstien saying, "You never truly under...

It’s easy to cut a rectangle into halves. This will cut both rectangles in half. What is the difference between halves and half? There are two answers, and it’s best to get both. "It’s easy to cut a rectangle into halves." All you have to do is make sure that the cut passes through ...

Which of the followings is correct? The shirt is made in wool or The shirt is made of wool or The shirt is made with cool I also found these, Ms. Eakins's specialty had been hand-braided rugs, but she promptly abandoned them to make warp-face rugs woven in woolsour...

Possible Duplicate: RegEx match open tags except XHTML self-contained tags I have this little code and it's giving me AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'group'. import sys import re #def extract_names(filename): f = open('name.html', 'r') text = f.read() match = re...