Infinitely many mathematicians walk into a bar, and order a beer, and a half, and a quarter, (...) and the bartender gives them two beers and says, good that you know your limits!
> A total of 3,500 rectal foreign bodies were removed over the course of 9 years. Males accounted for 85.1% of rectal foreign bodies whilst 14.9% were females.
Persian etymology of the day: تافته (twisted-wooven), the origin of English taffeta
> It was associated with prostitution during the English Renaissance. Examples include the references in William Shakespeare's plays: "As fit as ten groats is for the hand of an attorney, as your French crown for your taffeta punk," says the Clown in All's Well That Ends Well.
> Scientist Richard Feynman's wife said in her divorce complaint that:
"He begins working calculus problems in his head as soon as he awakens. He did calculus while driving in his car, while sitting in the living room, and while lying in bed at night."
> Feynman's love life had been turbulent since his divorce; his previous girlfriend had walked off with his Albert Einstein Award medal and, on the advice of an earlier girlfriend, had feigned pregnancy and extorted him into paying for an abortion, then used the money to buy furniture.
@user4539917 Perl Harbour is where old-rite Scots and Manx coders would string together their finest algorithmic gems so marvelled at by muggles and mundanes. Pearl Harbor is where naked skin divers would of old string together nacred gems so dearly plucked from Oʻahu’s shallow strand.
What native Enɡlish accent has the simplest and least amount of distinct words?
I was wonderinɡ because I recently learned that rarely in British Enɡlish the /aɪ/ diphthonɡ can be smoothed to /aː/, makinɡ 'fire' /faː/, for example.
@tchrist to get under your skin I answered the question you closed in comments. I thought it was worth answering the question since it was asked sincerely and seems intelligent.
@Mitch Pronunciation and lexis have nothing to do with each other. And nobody has ever been able to provide a word count of the English lexicon because precisely what constitutes a "word" is hotly debated with no agreement anywhere.
It's a Donbas question full of false assumptions and unanswerable challenges.
@tchrist Sure, to us it seems like an idle (euphemism for I don't know what) question. But there's sense in it and I thought deserved an answer
@tchrist I requested motivation from the OP
@tchrist If you take it from a formal language perspective, yes they do. the bigger the alphabet, the larger the sample space of vocab there is. Or to put it another way (in terms of the OP), if you (by some phonological change) equate two elements of the alphabet, you've reduced your vocab sample space.
I was a timekeeper at a run yesterday, and a friend talked me into visiting a non-garbage museum nearby. A venue where you can bring plastic garbage and sort it into different types, and receive some kind of coupon for it. A lot of enthusiasts come and bring their plastic, metal stuff.
It's so odd, I mean it's so peaceful, and environmentally friendly, and to think of what is going on right now, 2000 km to the west.
What native Enɡlish accent has the simplest and least amount of distinct words?
I was wonderinɡ because I recently learned that rarely in British Enɡlish the /aɪ/ diphthonɡ can be smoothed to /aː/, makinɡ 'fire' /faː/, for example.
English Language & Usage: Multi-Layer…
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