Where in Britain? I'm in East London and would only ever use "chemist" - I've only heard "pharmacy" from foreigners.quinterbeck wrote: ↑Wed Apr 21, 2021 4:32 am I know very few Brits who still use the term "chemist('s)" for the local dispenser/ary. They're nearly always called pharmacies nowadays.
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East Midlands. However my mum is a Pharmacist, so perhaps I'm not the best source for the average British usage. I'd say it's definitely standard for official usage, e.g. in pharmacy names, NHS written material.flicky wrote: ↑Tue Apr 27, 2021 12:26 pmWhere in Britain? I'm in East London and would only ever use "chemist" - I've only heard "pharmacy" from foreigners.quinterbeck wrote: ↑Wed Apr 21, 2021 4:32 am I know very few Brits who still use the term "chemist('s)" for the local dispenser/ary. They're nearly always called pharmacies nowadays.
Ngrams puts chemist and pharmacy about equal in current usage, with pharmacy on the up. But I suppose the corpus leans official rather than colloquial.
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White Departing Civil Rights Post To Become Interim Detroit Police Chief
(“White” is a surname. Of a black man in this case, for maximum irony)
(“White” is a surname. Of a black man in this case, for maximum irony)
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From a tweet by the AFP:
Vietnam discovers new hybrid virus variant: state media
Vietnam discovers new hybrid virus variant: state media
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Oh, and another one, from Politico:
How Harry Reid, a Terrorist Interrogator and the Singer From Blink-182 Took UFOs Mainstream
How Harry Reid, a Terrorist Interrogator and the Singer From Blink-182 Took UFOs Mainstream
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Not a headline, but it took a moment for this one to parse:
BBC wrote:Hopes a meeting of leaders could smooth some of the rough edges from the debate have been dashed.
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reminds me of an article title i saw once about five years ago ...
What ISIS really wants — the Atlantic
but i held off on typing that up here because the article had a normal headline, and what i saw was just an auto-generated summary by an RSS or some other type of feed bot. This was a chat room, so I said, "ISIS wants the Atlantic?" and my comment got added to the list of comments worth preserving.
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i guess sports team names can be amusing, if not confusing, if you dont know that theyre sports teams:
Bears Approved to Build Stadium by Arlington Heights Board
Not really in the same category as the garden paths, because essentially none of the people reading the headline will think it is actually about the animals, but this at least makes for an interesting mental image.
Bears Approved to Build Stadium by Arlington Heights Board
Not really in the same category as the garden paths, because essentially none of the people reading the headline will think it is actually about the animals, but this at least makes for an interesting mental image.
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Not a headline, but I found myself pretty confused by Raphael’s vent:
…until I realised that they were probably talking about a computer mouse rather than a live one.
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Huh. Had you not said anything I wouldn’t have thought twice about it—the animal sense never crossed my mind.
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I misread "mouse" for "house" until you put in in the drawer.
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https://nation.cymru/news/gb-news-troun ... paw-patrol
"five times fewer"? Why not just say "one fifth as many"?
"five times fewer"? Why not just say "one fifth as many"?
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Things like "five times fewer" always confuse me, as how can something be five times less than something else, unless you are comtrasting how much less two different things are compared to some other greater thing.alice wrote: ↑Mon Jun 28, 2021 12:29 pm https://nation.cymru/news/gb-news-troun ... paw-patrol
"five times fewer"? Why not just say "one fifth as many"?
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It's like using "n times more" to mean, incorrectly, "n times as many", which really annoys me.Travis B. wrote: ↑Mon Jun 28, 2021 1:13 pmThings like "five times fewer" always confuse me, as how can something be five times less than something else, unless you are comtrasting how much less two different things are compared to some other greater thing.alice wrote: ↑Mon Jun 28, 2021 12:29 pm https://nation.cymru/news/gb-news-troun ... paw-patrol
"five times fewer"? Why not just say "one fifth as many"?
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What is it supposed to mean then?alice wrote: ↑Mon Jun 28, 2021 2:17 pmIt's like using "n times more" to mean, incorrectly, "n times as many", which really annoys me.Travis B. wrote: ↑Mon Jun 28, 2021 1:13 pmThings like "five times fewer" always confuse me, as how can something be five times less than something else, unless you are comtrasting how much less two different things are compared to some other greater thing.alice wrote: ↑Mon Jun 28, 2021 12:29 pm https://nation.cymru/news/gb-news-troun ... paw-patrol
"five times fewer"? Why not just say "one fifth as many"?
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I was even more confused because they're not called "horse floats" here in the US.
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Seen on Hacker News:
‘Problematic stuff’: death, memory and the interpretation of cached objects
‘Problematic stuff’: death, memory and the interpretation of cached objects
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