@Cerberus Wow, that's too high. BTW I'm very surprised when reviewing this table that voting is compulsory in Australia, Brazil, Argentina, Ecuador, Peru, Luxembourg, with minor exceptions (like over 75, etc.). Is that a good thing or a bad thing, considering that the uninformed are forced to vote?
@Cerberus Same with me. I read the condensed version with lots of pictures. So I liked it.
There was a proposal to discourage the uninformed and the uninterested from voting - by providing each voting-eligible citizine with a sum of money if they don't take part in voting. Thus, only those genienely interested in the fate of their country would vote.
> An 88-year-old man who is the world’s longest-serving death row inmate has been acquitted by a Japanese court, after it found that evidence used against him was fabricated. bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c5y9x6zrkrro
> " In 1876, Freud spent four weeks at Claus's zoological research station in Trieste, dissecting hundreds of eels in an inconclusive search for their male reproductive organs."
> And I thought, as I wiped my eyes on the corner of my apron: This is an ancient gesture, authentic, antique, In the very best tradition, classic, Greek; Ulysses did this too. But only as a gesture,—a gesture which implied To the assembled throng that he was much too moved to speak. He learned it from Penelope… Penelope, who really cried.
TL;DR:
The premise that autumntime “is not a word” is faulty: it is a word.
Unlike most dictionaries, the OED does include autumn-time.
It is quite rare in comparison with the other seasons’ versions.
Variations in punctuation, spacing, and capitalization do not matter.
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TL;DR:
The premise that autumntime “is not a word” is faulty: it is a word.
Unlike most dictionaries, the OED does include autumn-time.
It is quite rare in comparison with the other seasons’ versions.
Variations in punctuation, spacing, and capitalization do not matter.
This answer is not...
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English Language & Usage: Multi-Layer…