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I notice that the writers of the texts in the citations from 2011 and 2015 seem to be using the spelling hymeneal when they should be writing hymenal.

Neither of those should be confused with hymnal...

You could get a clue from the fact that he's Mexican rather than Judean.

I called the same number just a few days ago.

Jesus is a real virtuoso with that leaf-blower.

Possibly also mouth ulcers or cold sores/herpes sores.

Quite so. Unfortunately, the mere infliction of death, destruction, hunger and societal misery has never been an obstacle to the consciences of the resource grabbers, the military, the "defence industry" (a weaselly euphemism for "profiteers of mechanized slaughter"), the thieves and hoarders of vit...

In my perception, "making one's nut" is an expression that has not made it across the Atlantic to Britain — at least, it is a novel expression to me, and I consider myself to be reasonably well-acquainted with British idioms. I see an obvious problem with the wagon wheel nut theory, which is that it...

I would amend #2 to read, "How many total kilometers have you driven your car?" That's more logical than "How many miles/kilometres has your car driven?" (because, as you say, it' s not the car that has been doing the driving), but in Britain at least, you'll come across that usage all the time. An...

"How many miles has your car/bike done?"

"What's the reading on the clock?"

"How many miles are on this thing?"

Shelley wrote: ↑

Wed Feb 13, 2019 10:03 pm

So, is sologamy even legal?

In most places it's not illegal (as far as I'm aware), but it has no legal standing. So no additional deductions are available to sologamists: if they were, I assume that the vast majority of single adults would be married to themselves.

That reminds me of the intriguing phenomenon of sologamy, (i.e. people marrying themselves) — see, for instance, this 2017 story in The Telegraph.

Similarly, see also Robert Scheer 's article The Great Con of American Patriotism, which centres on his interview with Ron Kovic and Maj. Danny Sjursen. There you'll find both an audio file of the interview (34'58") and a transcript. Below, I've reproduced Scheer's description of the interview's con...

Today, the estimable American investigative reporter Chris Hedges published this salutary critique (which I have reproduced in full below) of Peter Jackson's film They Shall Not Grow Old: -------------------- When director-producer Peter Jackson ’s World War I film, “They Shall Not Grow Old,” which ...

That's a flag pin.

Generically, it is a lapel pin.

Both sentences are grammatical.

Logically, people ought to say b), but often say a). However, because everyone who hears such an utterance intuitively understands that nobody has all those occupations at the same time, it's a case of a distinction that makes no difference.

I'd like to know more about why you ended up operating an elevator, Shelley. It sounds like there must be quite a story attached!