My impression was that Webster's effect was more on orthography (e.g., "color" vs. "colour") than pronunciations or verb forms. But I may be wrong about that.

Yeah, if it were that easy it wouldn't have been over a decade between the discovery of penicillin and the first almost-cure (the infected man was improving, but they ran out and he died), and years more before it wasn't a worth-far-more-than-its-weight-in-gold wonder drug.

Though witch hunts are tricky— defending someone caught up in it opens one up to accusation. "Are you soft on perversion? Or maybe you're defending them because you're a pervert yourself…?"

Those are both legends, attributed to the Middle Ages in later periods but not attested during the era.

I think Roose, at least, would expect her to be kept alive and having kids until there was a lot of insurance in the form of Stark-descended Boltons, the death rate being what it is. Given his preferences, her life would be constrained and full of fear and pain, but she wouldn't be intentionally killed as long as she…

My understanding is that colonial dialects are often more conservative than the metropole. Hence US English retaining things like "had gotten" instead "had got", pronouncing "herb" without the h (pronouncing it is an educated back-formation that got adopted into British Received Proununciation), etc. But that's not…

He thinks he can manipulate and control Sansa (as he sees it, that's what he's been doing since she reached the Vale). That should hold the North's loyalty in a way the Boltons can't.

I don't get the impression he's ever aimed at the throne as such. If that were his goal, I'd expect him to have maneuvered to marry Myrcella or Shireen. (Or, I suppose, Dany.) If the option offered itself, I'm sure he'd jump, but I'm guessing dominating the Small Council serving a puppet monarch would do at least…

I'm guessing that her choice not to actually give up Needle foreshadows that, at most, she'll advance far enough to learn some useful skills but will tragically fail the test of total self-effacement. Maybe by running across Meryn Trant in Braavos and doing what Arya Stark has wanted to for years, rather than acting…

He presumably plans to ensure Ramsay's death rather than just let it happen, since he can't securely marry Sansa without it.

That's pretty standard for mystic orders of badassses. Frequently the top level consists of people who are ostensibly uber-powerful (and will show it off if challenged by their inferiors), but are so in tune with the universe or focused on abstruse plans or whatever, that they can't be bothered to actually do…

You're thinking of Vulcans. I think Canadians are the ones who only mate every seven years.

I'm sorry. I can't hear any complaints over the sound of a bunch of second tier DC superheroes fighting Vandal Savage across all of time!!!

I liked the original Supergirl trailer. But today they released one (which I also liked) that's clearly aimed at the fanbase of the existing DC shows: http://cms.springboardplatf…

No more so than in every DC comic since the first meeting of the Justice Society of America. Superman spent half his first few years as a JLA member "on a mission in space" or otherwise unavailable to end the threat of the month on page 2.

Argo City originally. (Which in the Silver Age was thrown off Krypton intact by the explosion and survived another 2-3 decades. Science!)

Re #3, tell it to Man of Steel. Please.

See, when I think "Terminator-style" rules I mostly think of the original movie: closed loop, every effort to change anything turns out to be part of the previously established history. (Obviously they did it differently in later installments, but it was so much the central focus of the first movie that it's what the…

Cisco: Hold down Alt and hit 99 on the number pad. Or 67 if you want a capital C.

I immediately rewound and watched in slow motion to make sure I was seeing what I thought I was seeing.