From: owner-ammf-digest@smoe.org (alt.music.moxy-fruvous digest) To: ammf-digest@smoe.org Subject: alt.music.moxy-fruvous digest V14 #9133 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 9133 Today's Subjects: ----------------- 1 tsp a day of this prickly Australian plant melts 48 LBS ["Morning Ritua] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 15 Jun 2022 08:16:49 -0400 From: "Morning Ritual" Subject: 1 tsp a day of this prickly Australian plant melts 48 LBS 1 tsp a day of this prickly Australian plant melts 48 LBS http://firme.za.com/2NF5u2ZIxzyhRk2X2A9GA-mZ6r2Ss7MMc3KkcAP4dCY80kdlQA http://firme.za.com/U8KXbeoF39api_-3YQOqDBGIgKrt3u656LNfMhzBmeALRmhrFw 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 pronou ------------------------------ End of alt.music.moxy-fruvous digest V14 #9133 **********************************************