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In English, some prayers came directly from the King James Bible. The singular second-person pronoun in those prayers corresponded with the informal second-person pronoun in the no…

$500 per person per year divided by $0.50 per meal equals 1000 meals per year, which is almost every meal all year. Most people only eat pancakes for breakfast, and not anywhere ne…

Psilon in this case means plain or simple (as opposed to compound or two-letter), as in spelled with one letter, because when the name was coined in the Koine Greek period, υ was p…

There's no need to explain French tu by looking at Germanic languages. It descends pretty uneventfully from Latin tū. However, French and Latin tu are cousins of German du and Engl…

Good insight that I hadn't thought of. To flesh that out, the KJV translators used thou as singular and ye as plural consistently to render the second person singular-plural distin…

Apparently it doesn't. From what I read, relative humidity is maximum possible humidity divided by actual humidity (probably not the correct terms), whereas vapor pressure deficit …

Ah, I see, I misread your comment quite badly. I don't have any references to look this up in, but perhaps the ancestor of the word midori is first attested in a syllabic spelling …

As far as I can tell from Wiktionary ( https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%E7%B7%91#Japanese ), though I don't speak Japanese, the Japanese word midori has had the meaning "bud" or "sp…

Whoops, the article is about the Asian hornet, not the giant hornet... but my comments still apply.

Drinking nectar doesn't necessarily mean pollinating, that is transferring pollen. The pollen has to stick to the insect's body and the insect has to visit another flower that is g…

I can see the convenience of sort of importing implementations of traits into scope. One difficulty is that traits are used for core functionality, like dereferencing and compariso…

This part of the article seems to suggest that charging a flat rate that includes the base price plus the maximum possible taxes and fees would be allowed: "'A provider that opts t…

The summary is incorrect. The bridge collapse was in Morbi District, Gujarat, not New Delhi.

A JavaScript string is conceptually an array of 16-bit unsigned integers ( https://tc39.es/ecma262/multipage/ecmascript-data-types-and-... ). String indexing and substring operatio…

Interesting! That's similar to a clock that my brother and I made years ago ( http://naturalclock.net ). Ours adds the altitude of the sun throughout the day and lets you select th…