Apart from the hole, that could be chicken on a raft, an old Royal Navy dish.
Apart from the hole, that could be chicken on a raft, an old Royal Navy dish.
I can’t go on. I’ll go on.
(Samuel Beckett)
I don’t think I’ve come across that before, but I’d say it depends on what is meant:
There may well be some other ones, but I don’t know what they might be.
Oddities and Curiosities of Words and Literature by C C Bombaugh, one of my favourite reads, feels like it might be an obscure book.
Swot is a venerable and frequently used word, derived from the word sweat. Neek is what’s current with my children’s generation (South London): it’s a portmanteau of nerd and geek, apparently. Spod may well be regionally and temporally specific, as it’s what I used to be called in SW England in the 1980s.
These kinds of insults definitely exist here in the UK too, e.g., swot, spod, as well as geek, neek, nerd, etc. I don’t think these are imported from the US, as they’ve been around for a long time. Perhaps a manifestation of anglo-saxon anti-intellectualism?
That’s interesting. I wonder why we’re getting different results.
Different versions of xetex, perhaps? I’m using
XeTeX, Version 3.14159265-2.6-0.999992 (TeX Live 2020/Debian) (preloaded format=xelatex)
A little out of date, as I haven’t got around to updating my Debian yet.
Did you try my minimal example? I don’t use xelatex, but I’ve just tried running it on my example code and the output is the same as with pdflatex.
Isn’t that what you get if you use the ’ character for apostrophes? For example:
\documentclass{article}
\begin{document}
My apostrophe's curly. Or is it?
\end{document}
Isn’t that what you get if you use the ’ character for apostrophes? For example:
\documentclass{article}
\begin{document}
My apostrophe's curly. Or is it?
\end{document}
This opinion looks a little question-begging to me: do all businesses who declare these kinds of things do so as branding? I myself, don’t believe they do as many would be doing so for advocacy for minority groups, for example.
But wouldn’t ‘leery’ make sense there? It means something close to ‘suspicious’ after all.
Thanks, yes that’s a more useful source than my one.
I think this would be the best way to go.
Myself, I’d love to be able to interact with Lemmy through Gnus, but it would be great to have a general emacs API for flexibility so you can choose the front-end.
It looks as though the api for a client is defined in api_common.
Spinney is a nice word for a smallish gathering of trees, alongside copse, coppice, etc. I’m not aware of a term for one specifically in an open field, though.