
Eighteen, not eightteen - Factual Questions - Straight Dope
2012年1月26日 · The suffix is “teen”, yes? So why is 18 spelled “eighteen” and not “eightteen”? Is there a grammar rule governing double T’s?
Sympathy for the Devil and some enigmatic lyrics
2025年3月21日 · This may be getting a bit off topic, but I suspect there have always been local strongmen/warlords. What perhaps has changed is that in the aftermath of WW2 in which guns became mass produced, automatic weapons are now vastly easier to obtain. So the warlords can extend their reach more easily with fewer followers because of the force multiplier effect. It is one of the enduring regrets of my ...
Real music died in the 1970s - Page 18 - Straight Dope
2021年6月21日 · I know who Beato is. I apologize, but he bores the crap out of me, so I’m not going to watch another of his videos. People have been complaining about click tracks since before he opened a studio. He’s still wrong if he wants to blame the computer. He himself uses the computer, and it doesn’t ruin the music he produces. It’s the lazy choices by the lazy producers who are “ruining ...
Yet Another Aviation Incident in South Korea - Straight Dope
2025年3月28日 · haps tells me: It’s a very short article so I just quoted half of it. Question for the pilots among us: If ATC is telling you to land on Runway 18R, do they say Eighteen R, Eighteen Right, or Eighteen Romeo? And do they just say eighteen or do they say one eight?
Men getting taller after age 18-19. How common is this?
2013年12月28日 · I was always a big, tall kid and really did not have (so far as I can recall) a big “growth spurt” in my mid teen years. It was more just a linear increase in height over time with my height topping out at just under 6’3" at age 18-19ish. In some stories I see descriptions of people gaining 2-3 inches in height after age 18. Does this happen often? …
Men getting taller after age 18-19. How common is this?
2013年12月30日 · On the other hand, I had a girlfriend years back who was eighteen when I met her (don’t look at me like that – I was nineteen). She was 5’2", small, slender, pretty much flat-chested, no hips to speak of. Then, shortly after her nineteenth birthday, she had a growth spurt, and grew 2 inches taller, and grew breasts and hips.
Exodus 22:18: Witch or Poisoner? - Straight Dope
2000年11月2日 · I’ve spent quite a bit of time at Shantell Powell’s site The Witching Hours: Medieval Through Enlightenment Period European Witch History and have found it very educational, except I have a question about a piece of information she presents as fact: According to this page, Exodus 22:18 originally said “Thou shall not suffer a poisoner to live,” but King James I, because of his phobia ...
Corporal Punishment on an 18 year old student - Straight Dope
2014年12月30日 · The case in Texas, the student asked to leave and withdraw from the school. Someone dropping out of High School is not an uncommon thing, and in most States the schools have no power to act against it even if the child is under the age of eighteen as long as the child is above the cutoff age for compulsory education (16.)
The law for people born on leap days - Straight Dope
2024年2月29日 · Are there legal provisions governing when people born on a leap day, i.e. February 29, complete a year of their life? Suppose a child is born today. When will this person become of full age legally? Logically, it must be either …
29 year old man and a 18 year old woman - Straight Dope
2007年3月21日 · If my eighteen year old daughter (who lives at home) tried to date a 29 year old, it would hit the fan (and so would the 29 year old). What if it was your 18 year old son dating a 29 year old woman? I’m wondering if gender factors into this (I …