I read this comment a year ago and it apparently stuck in my head, because today I used this heuristic to type the names correctly. It's really helpful.
Would be enduring grateful if you could make carpel acceptable for pistil, or even accept gynoecium, since carpel is the basic unit and gynoecium is the overall apparatus, merci :-)
I tried about 10 moons but none of them belonged to mars... but I think phobos might be higher because it reminds of phobia. And deimos is not as easily relatable.
Do you mean the screwdriver question? If so, then accepting orange or oranges is simply wrong: you don't make a screwdriver by dropping segments of an orange into some vodka!
I'm not sure if I wouldn't include Sun Tzu as one of the most influential philosophers. Not a traditional philsopher, true, but his philosophy of war has been influential for thousands of years and has shaped the world in many ways and is taught and studied to this day.
I had never heard of the tale of two cities..... BUT SOMEHOW, I read biblical cities as British cities, guessed London and thought the other must be near by so guessed Paris. I CANNOT BELIEVE THAT.
Amen to that, ander!! Read it. Watch the Ronald Colman B&W movie version. Something!
"It was the best of times. It was the worst of times.....It is a far, far better thing I do than I have ever done. It is a far, far better rest I go to than I have ever known."
I thought of barrista haha, knew it wasn't that but something like it. Couldn't get the right word. Same with Sucre, tried sucra even Sucry. Also stem and stam for seamen (stamper in dutch, so the word is close, but still different, not just anglicised like usual. (Like straat becomes street, huis becomes house etc)).
But the odyssey one bothers me. I wrote odyssee. I know it is an English quiz but it is like an international word. And most countries write it without an y (usually an -ee sound or -ea). And you pronounce it like -see right? Not -say (and it is odyssEUS not odyssEYUS ;) )
thought it might have to change because of trump but the highest height I found for him was 6'2.6" which is probably why he rounds it up to 6'3" and apparently his driver's license says 6'2".
Maybe it is because of the spelling, I found myself trying Deymos to work
"It was the best of times. It was the worst of times.....It is a far, far better thing I do than I have ever done. It is a far, far better rest I go to than I have ever known."
But the odyssey one bothers me. I wrote odyssee. I know it is an English quiz but it is like an international word. And most countries write it without an y (usually an -ee sound or -ea). And you pronounce it like -see right? Not -say (and it is odyssEUS not odyssEYUS ;) )