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When is it appropriate to use em dashes instead of commas? I have tried commas in this sentence, but it seems too disjointed:
I'm going to be here at Zep, just up the road from KO near Howell Mill, for a few more weeks, and thought you and Kelly might like to meet somewhere for lunch one day.
I have observed that the word naïve is written with two dots on the i. Why is this?
Is it correct to write the word with a single dot, as in naive?
Are there any other English words with such two dots?
Here's a published example of a problem I come across frequently:
A cop is six times more likely to be shot by someone black than the opposite.
Let us assume that the writer meant to say:
Events in which a cop is shot by someone black are six times more frequent than events in which a s...
Whenever you find a computer spell-checking program does not know how to spell something, your best first assumption is that the program is an idiot. You will usually be right this way.
Including in this case: Wiktionary lists noöne as an “obsolete” spelling of no one.
Did people use it? Yes...
Eine Schwarzwälder Kirschtorte (in der Schweiz Schwarzwäldertorte) ist eine Sahnetorte, die sich seit den 1930er Jahren vor allem in Deutschland verbreitet hat und im Laufe der Zeit zu der beliebtesten deutschen Torte wurde. Heute gilt sie als die klassische deutsche Torte schlechthin und ist auf der ganzen Welt bekannt. Die wesentlichen Komponenten sind mit Kirschwasser aromatisierte Schokoladenbiskuitböden, eine aromatisierte Kirschfüllung, Sahne, Kirschen sowie Schokoladenraspeln als Verzierung. Die genauen Ursprünge sind unklar, sie sind jedoch nicht zwangsläufig im Schwarzwald zu suchen.
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Offside (Persian: آفساید ) is a 2006 Iranian film directed by Jafar Panahi, about girls who try to watch a World Cup qualifying match but are forbidden by law because of their sex. Female fans are not allowed to enter football stadiums in Iran on the grounds that there will be a high risk of violence or verbal abuse against them. The film was inspired by the director's daughter, who decided to attend a game anyway. The film was shot in Iran but its screening was banned there.
== Plot ==
Most of the characters in the film are not named.
A girl disguises herself as a boy to go attend the 2006 World...
John Snow (15 March 1813 – 16 June 1858) was an English physician and a leader in the adoption of anaesthesia and medical hygiene. He is considered one of the fathers of modern epidemiology, in part because of his work in tracing the source of a cholera outbreak in Soho, London, in 1854. His findings inspired fundamental changes in the water and waste systems of London, which led to similar changes in other cities, and a significant improvement in general public health around the world.
== Early life and education ==
Snow was born 15 March 1813 in York, England. He was the first of nine children...
Jon Snow (born 28 September 1947) is an English journalist and presenter, currently employed by ITN. He is best known as the longest-running presenter of Channel 4 News.
Snow has held numerous honorary appointments, including as Chancellor of Oxford Brookes University from 2001 to 2008.
== Early life ==
Snow was born in Ardingly, Sussex. He is the son of Bishop of Whitby, George D'Oyly Snow and his wife Joan, a pianist who studied at the Royal College of Music. He is a grandson of First World War general Thomas D'Oyly Snow (about whom he writes in his Foreword to Ronald Skirth's war memoir The...
A pig is any of the animals in the genus Sus, within the Suidae family of even-toed ungulates. Pigs include the domestic pig and its ancestor, the common Eurasian wild boar (Sus scrofa), along with other species; related creatures outside the genus include the babirusa and the warthog. Pigs, like all suids, are native to the Eurasian and African continents. Juvenile pigs are known as piglets. Pigs are omnivores and are highly social and intelligent animals.
== Description and behaviour ==
A typical pig has a large head with a long snout which is strengthened by a special prenasal bone and by a...
The British documentary television programme Meerkat Manor (September 2005 – August 2008), produced by Oxford Scientific Films for Animal Planet International, documented the antics of various meerkats being studied by the Kalahari Meerkat Project. The meerkats live in matriarchal groups led by a dominant couple, who have exclusive mating and breeding rights. The remainder of the group is usually the offspring and relatives of the dominant couple.
In the first three series of the four-series programme, five major groups of meerkats were regularly shown, however its primary focus was on a group...
Darrin Kenneth O'Brien (born October 30, 1969), better known by his stage name Snow, is a Canadian reggae musician. He is best known for his 1993 single "Informer", which reached No. 1 on the US Billboard Hot 100.
== Life and work ==
Snow was born and raised in the North York district of Toronto, Ontario. For much of his childhood, he lived in the Allenbury Gardens public housing project, and at the age of 16 moved to Ajax, Ontario. Growing up in a diverse neighbourhood, O'Brien blended dancehall and reggae with rock and popular music to create his own unique style of music. In 1988, Jamaican-born...
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