As a compulsive footnote reader, I wish the default footnote font was larger. See, for example, the footnote in this good answer: What do you call someone who is good at everything?
If a footnote is worth reading (as this one is), it should be readable!
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I've read the following sentences from a book:
I wanted it so bad, I’d throw myself into practicing but somehow never
got good —while other kids who weren’t putting in nearly the same
amount of dedicated time picked up the skills without seeming to sweat
the details. Were they just … na...
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Scott Tyler (born 1965), known professionally as Dread Scott, is an American artist whose works, often participatory in nature, focus on the experience of African Americans in the contemporary United States. His first major work, "What Is the Proper Way to Display a U.S. Flag" (1989), was at the center of controversy regarding the desecration of the American flag.
== Early life and Art Institute of Chicago ==
Scott was raised in Hyde Park, Chicago, the only son of his father, a photographer, and mother, who was "largely a housewife" but became a travel agent when Scott's father fell ill. For twelve...
T. O. Churchill, A Grammar of the English Language (1823) identifies two somewhat surprising culprits as being responsible for the deplorable rise of the apostropheless its: printers, and English speakers who inexcusably use of the wrong contraction for "it is." Here is Churchill's argument:
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