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Change your password to something like ©Êóð褰÷§âíÝ and then call them back and see what they ask... While it does not show for fact that they are not hashing the password, I too would presume that the password is stored in plain text if they are asking for specific characters from it.

So far I've found en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pleonasm#Professional_and_scholarly_use which really doesn't seem to give any insight, other than to the term 'doublets', but that's in reference to something which is the same, such as null and void

But yeah, I'm biased to the popular order of those as well, based on what I've always heard said too.

but then there is rice and beans, or beans and rice.

same for everything else in that list.

not quite, cuts=1, bruises=2, but yes the sum of either direction would be the same.

What do you mean by matter of pronunciation? What determines if it's faster and easier, or easier and faster? ;)

but on something like: rice and beans,beans and rice

you get a nice graph of all of them, but the first one in all of them, which is also the one we both go with, has a higher usage

Gah, link is to long, but if you go to books.google.com/ngrams and then paste in: cuts and bruises,bruises and cuts,pins and needles,needles and pins,bells and whistles,whistles and bells,meat and potatoes,potatoes and meat,milk and cookies,cookies and milk

sure, I guess I don't really have more to say than that however lol

pins and needles vs needles and pins, bells and whistles vs whistles and bells, meat and potatoes vs potatoes and meat, milk and cookies vs cookies and milk. I'm sure there is others, but I guess how the order is determined on that might be interesting to find out.

Basically, it shows the frequencies of phrase usage based on what's in books.

XD, in before on "cuts and bruises" vs "bruises and cuts", which there is a link to ngrams about that in my comment on the question. I'm not really sure why more people find it natural either -- maybe it has to do with the syllable count of the words?

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