Originally posted by royalchickenWell let me say you better be setting down that standing up...
http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/WT:LOP
This will give you something to read while turning your uncaring backs on the innocent captive poems in the verse competition.
You may be interested in the entries for 'bruck' and 'Bruckingham Palace'.
...I'll take that drink.
Originally posted by royalchickenDid someone bruck a rule? Nice link!
http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/WT:LOP
This will give you something to read while turning your uncaring backs on the innocent captive poems in the verse competition.
You may be interested in the entries for 'bruck' and 'Bruckingham Palace'.
Originally posted by Bowmann"Notbourne" may or may not be an alternative spelling of the place Nutbourne, but the pudding nobody plumps for is definitely called "Nutbourne", not "Notbourne". I looked it up.
Definitely maybe.
The trouble with place names is one often cannot be sure that an earlier, alternative spelling has not been employed.
I'd have to say, without further investigation, that there is less than a one hundred percent chance* you are right.
*Oxymoron.
Originally posted by BowmannEven if she is right with probability 1, we needn't be certain she's right unless we know about other conditions. For example, if you ignored the argument about whether such a thing is algorithmically possible and asked me to choose a random positive integer, it would, with probability 1, not be a power of 2, but you certainly can't be certain that I won't pick, say, 64.
Definitely maybe.
The trouble with place names is one often cannot be sure that an earlier, alternative spelling has not been employed.
I'd have to say, without further investigation, that there is less than a one hundred percent chance* you are right.
*Oxymoron.
In this case, a 100% chance of her being right would only be equivalent to her being certainly right if there were a finite number of spellings of 'Knutborn'.
