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Look at the spelling: it would have rhymed with 'honey'. It's a pretty common phenomenon: we (Americans anyway) don't talk about 'cocks' and 'asses' anymore, we have roosters and donkeys.

The OED has a pronunciation history:

The usual current pronunciation with long ō ( /əʊ/ ) seems to have become established during the course of the 19th cent., and may in part be a spelling pronunciation reflecting the rarity of the word in general use in standard English at this date, when it may have been most familiar to many from use in the Bible (and especially in the Psalms) as the name of a foreign animal. However, this pronunciation is likely to have been reinforced by the desire to avoid association with 'cunt' and related words (compare 'cunny'), especially in a religious context.

I've accepted X and call the posts "crements"

Then they succeeded?

> the domain isn't intended to be a general purpose endpoint for things like availability testing so we do not encourage that kind of usage

I am not seeing that on Firefox (beta/157) on Linux or Mac.

I had to disable the body background-color with the web inspector to see any of the animal heads!

The Basques were whalers. They started from the coast, using watch towers. Once the Bay of Biscay was depleted they moved further and further into the Atlantic.

Whale meat was mediocre and didn't preserve well, and while whale bone (baleen) is useful enough, but the real target was whale oil, the best lubricant and fuel for lighting.

All of this is from The World the Plague Made: The Black Death and the Rise of Europe by James Belich. (Highly recommended (even to myself – I reread it within a year).

Do you want to use RCS?

Wildfire smoke will be the big question there. It's started to be bad for a week or two a year in Minneapolis, and is only worse the closer you are to the boreal forest.

Agreed. If they really want to get ahold of me they'll leave a voicemail.

But I feel like I have to answer when my son is at school/camp.

I prefer the Firefox PDF viewer personally, and now that it can do all this I uninstalled the default Ubuntu PDF reader recently. It made me think and I uninstalled the image viewer app too. For both I'd rather use Firefox.

Was your bookshelf stained from sliding them out? Ours was all red on the bottom edge.