Can anyone explain why the 'i' in 'Christ' is long?

The relevant sentence of the study (in the section headed "Life Cycle Analysis") states: "This resulted in an overall carbon footprint for Fast Track VFA-SAF of -55 g CO 2 eq/MJ, which is 165% lower than fossil jet fuel (85 g CO 2 eq/MJ)." Note that the reduction is from plus 85 g to minus 55 g. So ...

#4 is definitely off, but can we establish exactly why? What do you think about #5/6? (4) I would go out now unless it were cold. (5) I would help you now if you did not object. (6) I would help you now unless you objected. What if we omit the 'now'? I wonder if this is a semantic rather than a gram...

Consider the following sentences: (1) I will go out tomorrow if it is not cold. (2) I will go out tomorrow unless it is cold. (3) I would go out now if it were not cold. (4) I would go out now unless it were cold. We can replace (1) with (2) without changing the meaning, but we cannot replace (3) wi...

client

This word has an interesting etymology. It is derived from the idea of "relying ('leaning') on someone".

https://etymonline.com/word/client

Etymonline has this to say on the question: "Seemingly contradictory sense of "hold fast, stick to" (in phrase hew to), 1891, developed from earlier figurative phrase hew to the line "stick to a course," literally "cut evenly with an axe or saw."" Thanks. So it seems that the similar double meaning...

Both 'hew' and 'cleave' have the same two opposite meanings of 'cut' and 'adhere (to)'. But I note that the two meanings of 'cleave' have different etymologies. How can the similar dual meaning of 'hew' be explained? Could the 'adhere to' meaning of 'hew' have been subconsciously influenced by 'clea...

"Not to mention..." is an example of a rhetorical device called apophasis, whereby one refers to something while claiming not to refer to it.

http://alphadictionary.com/goodword/word/apophasis

prosody

1. The study of metre, rhyme and versification in poetry.
2. The patterns of stress and intonation (pitch) in speech.

In addition, I wonder about the link to the eponymous football game Subbuteo

The name of the game 'Subbuteo' is a pun on the word 'hobby' (the bird/a pastime).

'Buteo' is Latin for 'buzzard', so 'subbuteo' is an 'under-buzzard', i.e. a small buzzard.

Is there any difference in meaning between 'zetetic' and 'empirical'?

The sense of very changed in the 15th century to "greatly, extremely", but that of the duplicated adverb verily remained true to its roots.

We still use very as an adjective in such expressions as "the very thing I wanted" and "the very devil of a problem".

Everything on the site is working OK for me. No problems. With regard to David Myer's posts above, another regular member we lost some years ago was Saparris, with whom I used to write 'Group Poems' (see Res Diversae). I don't know about Daniel Obertance – he is not in the List of Members, and there...

Most Americans say "th" when speaking of the German airline "Lufthansa" and I am OK with that. I suppose the "proper" pronunciation of "Neanderthal" also requires a "t" not a "th," but I don't feel like a caveman because I pronounce all the letters in the word. In the UK we pronounce "Lufthansa" wi...

Thanks a lot for the information. I suspected that this idiom is of recent origin. It seems to have caught on quickly.