From: owner-ammf-digest@smoe.org (alt.music.moxy-fruvous digest) To: ammf-digest@smoe.org Subject: alt.music.moxy-fruvous digest V14 #9128 Reply-To: ammf@fruvous.com Sender: owner-ammf-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-ammf-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk alt.music.moxy-fruvous digest Wednesday, June 15 2022 Volume 14 : Number 9128 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Home Depot Knows Gift Cards! Get your $500 Here! ["Home Depot Shopping" <] An EarWax Cleaner that's Safe for Your Ears and the Environment ["Tvidler] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 15 Jun 2022 04:34:42 -0400 From: "Home Depot Shopping" Subject: Home Depot Knows Gift Cards! Get your $500 Here! Home Depot Knows Gift Cards! Get your $500 Here! http://givethumbsup.ru.com/nF6ayc1Iqsc0WhZdBwigzBwAyx8-czvG7q9kez8WzZyIyVS4Tg http://givethumbsup.ru.com/ZYkpJLeCkgJecMe1Q82anM5eFrdu68I21CvRLmPuSrSTz77Ljg of more than 30,000 people worldwide found that seven in ten used the hard g. Van der Meulen's analysis found that 57.2 percent of users who offered an opinion supported the hard g, while 31.8 percent favored the soft g. However, the analysis also found that 8.2 percent of users support both pronunciations, while favoring the soft g, and 2.8 percent favored enunciating each letter. An informal poll of developers on Stack Overflow showed that 65.6 percent of respondents favored the hard g pronunciation, while 26.3 percent used the soft g, 6 percent sounded out every letter, and 2 percent employed a different pronunciation altogether. However, an analysis from The Economist argued that the disparities in the results were exaggerated by sampling bias; the article commented that while the countries where the hard g is used make up 45 percent of the world's population, respondents from those countries comprised 79 percent of the sample. When the populations of each country were adjusted for, the analysis found that hard g still led, albeit by a narrower margin of 44 percent to 32 percent for soft g. In addition, this adjustment brought the popularity of pronouncing each letter up to 21 percent; this variation is common in Asian countries, where it is employ ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 15 Jun 2022 05:25:05 -0400 From: "Tvidler Cleans Ears" Subject: An EarWax Cleaner that's Safe for Your Ears and the Environment An EarWax Cleaner that's Safe for Your Ears and the Environment http://givethumbsup.ru.com/Na3qpAnJ6f51GC2waJaCmRslr3niBIGvs9qo0Jx4-7pskkro8w http://givethumbsup.ru.com/COAuQNNZ9GTrYE2gvgvJv48yjlskX6kuGEIruceT98FpInfRQA English, the linguistic controversy stems partly from the fact that there is no general rule for how the letter sequence gi is to be pronounced, with the hard g prevailing in words such as gift, and the soft g being used in others such as gin. In Old English, g would make the soft g sound as well as y's consonant sound, and when the hard g was added, both its hard and soft variations persisted when followed by i. An analysis of 269 words by linguist Michael Dow found near-tied results on whether a hard or soft g was more appropriate based on other English words; the results varied somewhat depending on what parameters were used. Of the 105 words that contained gi somewhere in the word, 68 used the soft g while only 37 employed its counterpart. However, the hard g words were found to be significantly more common in everyday English; comparatively obscure words like flibbertigibbet and tergiversate, both pronounced with a soft g, were included in the list of 68 soft gi words. When the prevalence of each word was taken into account, it was found that the hard and soft g appeared in nearly equal frequencies in gi words. No clear favorite was found by only using the words that begin with gi, nor by only using words with one syllable such as gift and gin. In her coverage of the piece, Canadian linguist Gretchen McCulloch theorizes that since the ------------------------------ End of alt.music.moxy-fruvous digest V14 #9128 **********************************************