According to the Wikipedia entry,

The "Q" in the name stands for quality.

Now they tell us !...

Henri

Those interested in the descendents of Franz Ferdinand Karl Ludwig Joseph Maria can find out more here . Alas, little seems to be known - or at least recorded - of their attitudes towards vehicles ; not even Švejk, who otherwise had a few things to say about the events in Sarajevo, discusses this pa...

Drop the supernumerary «-al» and get the miracles at half (OK, 2/3) the price !,,,

Henri

This word - presumably just to tantalise us, BD omitted the definition, which I reproduce, infra - always makes me think of Master Kong (孔子, Confucius) and his disciples, who wrote down what they remembered of his teachings and spread them as the Word. Given that human memory is imperfect and highly...

... The celebration was previously known as Old Year's Night, which remains in English-speaking Guyana and some other areas of the Caribbean. ... Many English speakers around the world sang the very popular Scottish song, Auld lang sine "Old long since" at 12 AM this morning, including th...

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"Professor Lambrani's cane is not so much a support as a gimmick for gaining him the sympathy of his students and colleagues." ...

That is a canard ! Professor Lambrani simply had a gimmicky leg (anybody remember Gerald Ford ?), that's all !...

Henri

... But a vagitus is a 4th declension noun, like apparatus, whose plural is the same as its singular: vagitus. As is, if I am not misinformed, that charming little word « virus ». Others have claimed that as a noun («stuff» to the cognoscenti), it belonged to the 3rd declension, to be declined like...

Love this word - it reeks of redolence !...

Henri

... If these atrocities are to be stopped, it is necessary that we openly confront the fact that they do exist, and that we take upon ourselves the task of seeing to it that not only low-level perpetrators like Graner and England are punished, but also, and more severely, those responsible for allo...

... The headlines touted the program's definition of nouns as "stuff" and verbs as "what stuff does." ... Why the mirth ? I just wonder, Larry , how many of the headline-makers could come up with a first approximation to a definition of «noun» and «verb» more concise and easier ...

I should not dare to suggest where Systranet might go....

Henri

Here a link to a most interesting commentary, «The nitpicking of the masses vs the authority of the experts» , by George Johnson in the Science section of today's New York Times , which very aptly adopts a Darwinistic perspective on the Wikipedia vs Britannica discussion. I recommend it highly !... ...

Intelligent Design....

Henri

At this time of year, Larry, for those of us who live here in the North the very idea that it could shine too much seems a sacrilege. But as I've said elsewhere,

Vi går mot ljusare tider !...

Henri

Apo , I must confess that I find the concept of «free will» difficult, but that is not because we may in some sense be said to be an accumulation of - or a vehicle for - chemical reactions - I think the concept of «emerging qualities» resolves that particular problem. It is rather the concepts of c...