The English language is a wonderful thing, and we know some rules without knowing we know them.
‘Have you ever heard that patter-pitter of tiny feet? Or the dong-ding of a bell? Or hop-hip music? That’s because, when you repeat a word with a different vowel, the order is always I A O. Bish bash bosh. So politicians may flip-flop, but they can never flop-flip. It’s tit-for-tat, never tat-for-tit. This is called ablaut reduplication, and if you do things any other way, they sound very, very odd indeed.’ From ‘The Elements of Eloquence’ by Mark Forsyth.
This article addresses that Web Environment Integrity is not being worked on at W3C, and proceeds to explaining how work is brought to W3C and the processes that foster the development of Web standards and guidelines that ensure the long-term growth of the Web.
LA Times: How an untested, cash-strapped TV show about books became an American classic
(h/t to @gbhnews from another social)
Engineer and inventor Frances Hugle was born #OTD in 1927.
She pioneered techniques used in microcircuitry fabrication and obtained patents for many of them, including methods for printing circuits and producing semiconducting films.
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