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| A thread store? No, it's part of a pins-and-needles, crazy-things-to-do-with-thread music video (Favourite Places by Black Books) - watch the unravelling here |
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Need a prescription for correct pronunciation? (20% of 1000 people surveyed pronounced prescription as perscription or proscription) - read about the 8 errors of pronunciation (pronounciation?) that are changing the English language here. Most can be summed up with a Greek work - like syncope: disappearing sounds, such as the T in Christmas; or metathesis: swapping sounds around, such as nucular for nuclear. At time of writing there were 2500 comments on mispronunciations - I particularly liked "the specific ocean"... and cockrodile ... both of which were near the top of the page.
[Pet peeve alert!] Growing up across the pond (in Canada), I say INventory and have to restrain a gasp when people here in UK say inVENtory, which sounds to me like a place where things are invented. Just checked this on the Macmillan Pronouncing Dictionary, which gives the British pronunciation as IN-ven-tree and the American as IN-ven-tore-ee.
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Need an excuse to eat chocolate? Try the scientific experiment here and see if sound affects taste.
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| "Mail Rail" - underground route is to be part of London's new postal museum, opening in 2016; read more about it here |
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Two men and their bookshelves - arrangement by colour, yes very nice in an office -
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| The statistician: David Spiegelhalter, Professor of Public Understanding of Risk at Cambridge (his website helps make sense of chance, risk, luck, uncertainty and probability) |
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| The designer: David McCandless, author of "Information is Beautiful" |
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Wall art in east London -
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Who writes these crazy comments on blogs (this was sent to raggedclothcafe.com) ... and why, for heaven's sake?
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Ya gotta wonder...
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1 comment:
Interesting miscellany as ever - as for the last, my husband tells me that it is most probably done in a random scatter-gun way to tempt us to click the contact, which will generate a definite link. I simply trash without any further ado.
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