Not quite. The "gh" is a digraph that replaced the archaic letter "yogh" (ȝ), which also disappeared along with the thorn, eth, and wynn. So it would have been pronounced "k-night"—much like it looks. We really just stopped pronouncing the "k" in that word.

A lot of words described as "Americanisms" are actually old words that the British stopped using. Certain American pronunciations are of similar origin; the British decided one day to pronounce things differently, but Americans kept the old way. And although Noah Webster did have his hand in changing some spellings,…

There is no legal distinction for "hate speech" in U.S. law unlike in Canada and many European nations. Generally speaking, even hardcore leftists in the U.S. are hard-pressed to support hate speech laws, as the general attitude is that it is better for all the wackos and crazies to be out in the open, so we can know…

Of course, many of the same people who trumpet the 2nd Amendment as infallible also oppose "Obamacare" or any step forward towards national healthcare. Mental healthcare isn't free, and a lot of existing health insurance plans offer inadequate mental health coverage.

I wouldn't be surprised if both games ended up on the PS4. It might explain the deafening silence regarding the two as well, since the PS4 hasn't been officially announced.

Ugh...so true. I have no idea how so many people started conflating "lose" with "loose." They don't sound alike and have two completely different meanings. It also reminds me of when people (maybe they still do?) thought "alot" was a word instead of "a lot." That also used to drive me mad, but I don't seem to see…

Fuck...I just searched what that looks like, and it's terrible. It's like nobody at Apple ever bothered to research UI design. I may have to reconsider my upgrade decision...or I might overlook it...hmm...

You should be able to do a software update on it. I had to plug a USB cable into mine and attach it to my computer to do it. Depending on how old yours is, the update might no longer be free, but it should be able to be updated to more current maps.

In Canada, I'm able to find spelt bread pretty regularly in a run-of-the-mill grocery chain, although it's generally seems to be in the same display with the "specialty breads" and there's not as much in stock. On the plus side, if I refrigerate it, it seems to last forever, so I buy it two loaves at a time. I would…

"Whole grain flour" should lower the glycemic index, but common wheat is so engineered at this point that it's still pretty high on the glycemic index even if lower than white flour. Heirloom and ancient grains, however, are totally the way to go—much healthier and much easier to digest.

I haven't needed to give up pasta. I eat spelt and kamut pasta instead, which are ancient wheat varieties that have not been genetically modified and have far less gluten than that of "common wheat," and so are easier to digest. Those with celiac disease, though, would likely still have to avoid these, however.

It's about time! And now I feel comfortable finally updating to iOS 6.

"Less than 25" implies that there is at least 1 living WWI veteran, when, in fact, there are zero. It's misleading, and that's why I corrected it.

That particular article talks about the death of the last WWI veteran worldwide who just happens to be British. That Wikipedia article shows that everyone on that list is deceased too, and, in particular, makes mention of the death of the last veteran in the second sentence:

Test blink!

Life is too short to get incensed over the Internet, especially when it comes to otherwise polite discussion. And at least here, I just dismiss the name-calling trolls outright...hah.

Reading this, what I take away (and, by the way, I thought this was probably where it came from too over the last several years) is that there is no "gay gene," but that it's still "genetic" in that the characteristics that cause this to arise in the womb are heritable traits themselves—in this case, traits present in…

Our cultural ability to forget, though, is why I think civilisation is able to advance. Otherwise, we end up fighting centuries-old grudges forever, even when it no longer makes sense to fight anymore.

No, they're all dead everywhere. Not sure what his source is about <25.

I appreciate a healthy scepticism about Wikipedia, but in this case, it's because it has an abundance of cited sources as to when all the last veterans of each nation died.