Strewth the spelling of English is weird!

[spacesailor]

The 15 th earl of , hang on , its named by the Viking clan .

Before the English had ' earls'.

Before " Robin hood " it was the ' ferry ' over the Derwent river . With ' maid Marian's ' nunnery. 

And , Derby when those Roman invaders put the " Roman North road " upthe centre of England .

spacesailor

[pmccarthy]

More importantly, Derby was where Rolls Royce built 2,422 Bentleys between 1933 and 1940.

 

[spacesailor]

I lived outside of their '' Sinfin " factory.  Even worked there for a while . Before that I worked for a concrete Contractor,  pouring ( bubbley ) aerated concrete as a 

' sound deadener ',  over the jet testing facility .

It work well , as the ' whine ' was tamed .

spacesailor

 

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[facthunter]

Very few DO "SCIENCE". it's just another "Belief".   (and THEY  still get to vote.) Nev

[nomadpete]

7 hours ago, facthunter said:

Very few DO "SCIENCE". it's just another "Belief".   (and THEY  still get to vote.) Nev

Opinions rule this world, Nev.

[facthunter]

Murdoch printing KNOWN untruths. Trump running a "Birther" claim against OBAMA He admitted he knew it was false but he said "It did the Job".  It's FRAUD of course when gains are made from such behaviour.  Nev

[nomadpete]

42 minutes ago, facthunter said:

Murdoch printing KNOWN untruths. Trump running a "Birther" claim against OBAMA He admitted he knew it was false but he said "It did the Job".  It's FRAUD of course when gains are made from such behaviour.  Nev

You Are right, Nev.

 

It's rampant. It's manipulatiIt's It  blatantly unconscionable. It's sinister. It's not controllable.

 

And it's  everywhere.

 

Before I go out and slit my wrists, is there anything WE can do to stop this runaway train?

[facthunter]

It's maybe the biggest problem WE all face. Hoping time wounds ALL heels. Rupee and his ilk have done immeasurable damage.  What's Putins WORD worth? Nothing.   Nev

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[willedoo]

Maybe not the correct thread for this, but it's regarding the word 'unprecedented' which has become a very overused buzzword these days. I always thought the word was fairly straight forward, eg: something is either unprecedented or it's not unprecedented (in another term - precedented). But not so, the BBC has taken to using the term 'almost unprecedented'. The way I interpret it, 'almost unprecedented' is precedented, same thing.

[facthunter]

Unique is a word like that. But I'm not sure about unprecedented. Killed  can be almost Killed where you are almost dead.  with Camouflage you can be almost invisible. . Nev

[old man emu]

 

 

You may of heard of the use of the word 'precedent', meaning "thing or person that goes before another". Specifically in law, "a judicial decision which serves as a rule for future determinations in similar or analogous cases". Another example would be in the description of the Wright Brothers' 1903 flight. When that flight took place there was no precedent they could rely on to suggest that the combination of factors that lead to the success of that flight would be successful. Therefore the succes of that flight was unprecedented.

 

To figure out what 'unprecedented' means you have to have a look at its etymology. 

early 15c., preceden, "lead the way; occur or exist before, go before in order of time," from Old French preceder and directly from Latin praecedere "to go before," from prae "before" (see pre-) + cedere "to go".

 

From an examination of the frequency of use of the terms 'precedent' 

 

and 'unprecedented' you can agree that it has become a buzzword.

 

Buzzword: also buzz word, 1946, from buzz (n.) + word (n.). Noted as Harvard student slang for the key words in a lecture or reading. Note its level of useage:

 

[Marty_d]

I'm a little surprised at 1820's spike in the "unprecedented" graph.

Whenever I've read or heard the use in a historical context it has been "without precedent", not "unprecedented".