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For a century now, the option has been at some point between 7 and 16, at the diocese's discretion. I received mine around 16; 13 sounds like an outlier, to me.

Yeah; when those lines are horizontal – though –, you may want to worry. But vertically, usually not.

In the end, it's all subjective but – if you'll hear me out – thogh doesn't alter the current spelling very much while maintaining a linguistic heritage (as the "thogh" spelling was also likewise used, during Middle English); also, the number of words ending in just the "o" vowel is less common, I feel, and will probably look doubly foreign to a native English speaker due to the consonant digraph (though, again, subjective; maybe not).

However, – additionally – saving "oght" for "thought" is giving that letter combination a sound already covered in English by another letter combination: "aught" (e.g. caught, fraught, taught, …thaught…?). If we're keeping "ogh" around, we might as well give it a unique pronunciation association to avoid the overlap that was the original problem with "ough".

Finally, a single "f" for "tough" could work (certainly, there are examples) but we miss out on employing the Germanic linguistic tendency to indicate a short vowel sound with a double consonant, inherited by words such as "ball", "fall", "doll", "call", or "puff" (of course, there's plenty of exceptions ("get", "bet", "mat", etc.) but, so long as we're making changes, firming up an existing rule (and avoiding the brief uncertainty of whether or not the reader is dealing with a prefix) would, arguably, be useful).

For real; the second I saw "hugbox", I was like, "Hmm…."

"Thogh thaughts are tuff," in a more blessèd timeline.

Yeah; those are reasonable. Not overly-checkable stuff like the school you went to and degree you obtained.

This.

I remember, when Unity first came out and Gnome was considering mockups for Gnome 3, so many people complaining and me thinking that, yeah, maybe these weren't perfect but they so clearly contained improvements over Gnome 2.

It was an exciting time to be joining Linux because there seemed to be real desire to experiment with new work flows and UI ideas that improved the standard computing experience.

I feel like time's kind of borne out my feelings, there.

The Once and Future King, T. H. White

No; you were clear. I dunno what that other person was doing.

Probably because that's what some had been told they would be taking before entering the slaughterhouse; but just a guess, on my part.

What section does he mention it (if just one or two)? Don't have the free time for listening to the full hour, unfortunately, but I am curious (if you don't mind, of course).

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.

The same was in the beginning with God.

All things were made by him: and without him was made nothing that was made."

is generally interpreted to mean that Jesus was there from the beginning. Or, to quote the Nicene Creed,

begotten and not made, consubstantial with the Father

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begrudgingly slow-claps

The problem with the r-slur wasn't the word itself but dehumanizing mentally disabled people; I guess being more overt about it is preferable, if we have to choose one or the other, but you're not circumventing anything.

I hadn't had many regrets in life, originally.

No, that's the Big Onion.

Gotcha; thanks a ton. I'd only been vaguely aware on the size so that definitely makes more sense. 'Appreciate it.