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Welsh has the same vowels as English, plus 'w' and'y', but the pronunciation is different: it doesn't vary in welsh the way it does in English. Instead, we have accents: circumflex (^), which lengthens the sound of the vowel, and the acute (´), which shortens it. Occasionally the diaresis appears on the letter ï, to signify a doubling of the sound.
And we change the word start to make it easier (and better sounding) to say - called mutation.
Surprisingly, it's one of the oldest unchanged languages in Europe: 14th century Welsh bibles are immediately readable to a "modern" Welsh reader.
But... It does look like it was English spelt by a 6year old sometimes!
Tacsi. - Taxi
Ysbyty. - Hospital ( it's pronounced "eh spotty")
Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it. --- George Santayana (December 16, 1863 – September 26, 1952)
Those who fail to clear history are doomed to explain it. --- OriginalGriff (February 24, 1959 – ∞)
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You're right yummy. 
I've seen pictures of Pythons in the everglades area that have eaten gators and in one case died trying because it was too big.
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Like this[^] one? Soh! (snake for 'Doh!').
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Yeah that one, little bugger got greedy. 
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Lucky I have the ability to chew or I might meet a similar fate, as sometimes my eyes are bigger than my stomach.
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New magnetic material could boost electronics[^]
The material combines thin layers of nickel and vanadium oxide, creating a structure which is surpisingly responsive to heat.
"We can control the magnetism in just a narrow range of temperature - without applying a magnetic field. And in principle we could also control it with voltage or current," said Prof Schuller.
"At low temperatures, the oxide is an insulator. At high temperatures it's a metal. And in between it becomes this strange material," he said.
Although it's too early to say exactly how it will be used, Prof Schuller sees an obvious opportunity in computing memory systems.
The article notes the last time a discovery like this was made, giant magnetoresistance[^] or GMR in 1988. GMR is the technology that allows hard drives to be so small and dense. If this new tech has a similar impact... 
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Gregory.Gadow wrote: sees an obvious opportunity in computing memory systems.
Long gone are the days when somebody discovers something and actually builds something useful, demonstrating its usefulness, rather than making conjecture to garnish brief media coverage. Science has devolved into "we see opportunities!" Venture capitalists probably love that stuff, but probably the smart ones don't.
Anyways, I ramble.
I notice that when my cat eats his food, it leaves distinct patterns of crumbs in the bowl. I see obvious opportunities in applying prediction theory of cat crunchy crumbs with quantum crumbodynamics to predict when my cat will be hungry next. Send me money to research this further, as I want to create a "smart bowl" to alert me on my phone when my cat is hungry.
I think I'll head over to Kickstarter to submit my video of my cat eating.
Marc
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When they discovered how to make buckyballs there was no immediate gain, but now look at the nanotechnology.
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Obscurum per obscurius.
Ad astra per alas porci.
Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum videtur .
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You better hurry and patent it Marc before one of the big boys jump on it.
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Professor Schrödinger has prior art on this (or does he?)
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Oh no you said 'Math'.
You are in so much trouble when the pedantic brigade get here.
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Good point this side of the pond it is called Maths never worked out why shorten for Mathematics I guess the s probably crept in due to pronunciation (and the accent!), waiting for our Darlek friend to added his view! 
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All you need to know is that, if the American version differs from the UK version, the American version is wrong.
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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Here's my answer.
Mathematics --> Math
Economics --> Econ
Physics --> Phys
Chemistry --> Chem
I think Math was the only one that stuck phonetically from a university curriculum.
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Actually, Econ is making its way into the lexicon, too.
And everyone knows about chem-trails.
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Americans call it MATH because they only learn one sum.
The civilised world calls it maths because we learn lots of aspects of the subject and realise it should be a plural.
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Obscurum per obscurius.
Ad astra per alas porci.
Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum videtur .
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The origins...[^]
I'm not questioning your powers of observation; I'm merely remarking upon the paradox of asking a masked man who he is. (V)
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What does an integer sequence have to do with cut grass[^]?
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More specifically, cut grain. The earliest development of arithmetic goes hand in hand with tracking harvest yields and, thus, things like taxes and tithes.
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I'm on contract and go to a customer's location three days a week. Today, they expanded the team so we can't fit around a conference room. Many of us hoped that we could move back to our office and work in a quite environment. Instead, the client decided to put us in a "SCRUM Pit". The only thing it has done is magnified the aspects of the environment that we don't like. Its louder and provides more interruptions. Even better, it wasn't set up when we got here. I spent my first hour moving tables, chairs, power cords. I'm living SCRUM out of a text book 
Has anybody had a positive experience with a SCRUM Pit? If so, how long were you in the environment.
Hogan
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Face + Palm, SCRUM = management fad in my view! something that worked in one situation applied to all does not always work... it's like when I'm coding or building electronics at home TV/HiFi in the back ground, place I was at before we had Radio 1 (?) BLASTING all day. Couldn't get any work done at all. If it works once it shouldn't be applied every where! 
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You know you've moved up the ladder when you don't need attend one of those scum meetings (And having be Agile+Standup)
... you ever see a board member be Agile? They aren't. Because management only give instructions. Only foot soldiers need be agile and having to report what they done & failed everyday, in a SCUM meeting!
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So I'm not the only one that calls it SCUM!
Hogan
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