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The BBC, in an article entitled [url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-manchester-25940865]Lancashire Fusiliers Gallipoli Victoria Cross sought by museum[/url], wrote:"Our mission is to find it so it can take its place alongside the other VC's in the exhibition."
Lord Ashcroft, who has loaned three VCs to the museum for the exhibition, said the "'Six before Breakfast' comprise one of the most celebrated batches of gallantry medals from any action of the entire Great War".
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[url=http://www.theportforum.com/viewtopic.php?p=71801#p71801]Here[/url] PhilW wrote:we will invite one industry guest, who's costs will be covered by the attendees.
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{Sackcloth and ashes}jdaw1 wrote:[url=http://www.theportforum.com/viewtopic.php?p=71801#p71801]Here[/url] PhilW wrote:we will invite one industry guest, who's costs will be covered by the attendees.
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Aren't you English? I think this year you'll have to make do with just sackcloth.PhilW wrote:{Sackcloth and ashes}jdaw1 wrote:[url=http://www.theportforum.com/viewtopic.php?p=71801#p71801]Here[/url] PhilW wrote:we will invite one industry guest, who's costs will be covered by the attendees.
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Glenn E. wrote:Aren't you English? I think this year you'll have to make do with just sackcloth.PhilW wrote:{Sackcloth and ashes}jdaw1 wrote:[url=http://www.theportforum.com/viewtopic.php?p=71801#p71801]Here[/url] PhilW wrote:we will invite one industry guest, who's costs will be covered by the attendees.
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There will be three numbers, and I am instructing somebody to take the average of the better two of them. Or should that be the best two of them?
So if the numbers are 10, 11 and 12, the result should be Average(11, 12) = 11½.
Better two of three, or best two of three?
So if the numbers are 10, 11 and 12, the result should be Average(11, 12) = 11½.
Better two of three, or best two of three?
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Why is higher better? Same problem, different word. Just wondering.jdaw1 wrote:There will be three numbers, and I am instructing somebody to take the average of the better two of them. Or should that be the best two of them?
So if the numbers are 10, 11 and 12, the result should be Average(11, 12) = 11½.
Better two of three, or best two of three?
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I should have said that the context makes very obvious that higher = better.djewesbury wrote:Why is higher better?
But the same question could be asked of ‟higher two of three” versus ‟highest two of three”.
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Best two of three. Two of them may be better than the other, but you have select the best two (i.e. better is always a comparative between at least two elements or groups, while best is a single element or group based on a criteria).jdaw1 wrote:There will be three numbers, and I am instructing somebody to take the average of the better two of them. Or should that be the best two of them?
So if the numbers are 10, 11 and 12, the result should be Average(11, 12) = 11½.
Better two of three, or best two of three?
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hencejdaw1 wrote:But the same question could be asked of ‟higher two of three” versus ‟highest two of three”.
djewesbury wrote:Same problem, different word.
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My choice as well. Possibly even "best two of the three."PhilW wrote:Best two of three. Two of them may be better than the other, but you have select the best two (i.e. better is always a comparative between at least two elements or groups, while best is a single element or group based on a criteria).jdaw1 wrote:There will be three numbers, and I am instructing somebody to take the average of the better two of them. Or should that be the best two of them?
So if the numbers are 10, 11 and 12, the result should be Average(11, 12) = 11½.
Better two of three, or best two of three?
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I also agree with this. I think the choice is made clearer if you increase the number of the pool from 3 and see what you would do in those circumstances.Glenn E. wrote:My choice as well. Possibly even "best two of the three."PhilW wrote:Best two of three. Two of them may be better than the other, but you have select the best two (i.e. better is always a comparative between at least two elements or groups, while best is a single element or group based on a criteria).jdaw1 wrote:There will be three numbers, and I am instructing somebody to take the average of the better two of them. Or should that be the best two of them?
So if the numbers are 10, 11 and 12, the result should be Average(11, 12) = 11½.
Better two of three, or best two of three?
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Which agrees with my (formerly tentative) preference. Thank you.
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How much would a completely fresh lobster salad be?
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You could also ask them how many salads you get with each lobster portion, too.djewesbury wrote:How much would a completely fresh lobster salad be?
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You neglected to mention the fig problem. Was that deliberate?
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I prefer the thought of the 80z burger. I'm hoping the corrected menu should read 80 oz burger.
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The fig problem was a given. It was the fig problem that allowed all the other peculiarities to come into our purview.DRT wrote:You neglected to mention the fig problem. Was that deliberate?
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I get that, but Al Capone was convicted of tax evasion, not mass murder, smuggling and extortion. It is important to include the lesser crimes in the charge just in casedjewesbury wrote:The fig problem was a given. It was the fig problem that allowed all the other peculiarities to come into our purview.DRT wrote:You neglected to mention the fig problem. Was that deliberate?
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Of course that should have been, even if typed using a phone, “an Amicus Curia”.[url=http://www.theportforum.com/viewtopic.php?p=73058#p73058]Here[/url] jdaw1 wrote:acting as a Amicus Curia
Hopefully, in the spirit of banks’ self-reporting of benchmark crimes, my self-reporting will result in a milder punishment.
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I thought Amicus Curiae?jdaw1 wrote:Of course that should have been, even if typed using a phone, “an Amicus Curia”.[url=http://www.theportforum.com/viewtopic.php?p=73058#p73058]Here[/url] jdaw1 wrote:acting as a Amicus Curia
Hopefully, in the spirit of banks’ self-reporting of benchmark crimes, my self-reporting will result in a milder punishment.
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Wikipedia agrees that further penance is required. For reasons of stupidity and English word order, I was attempting to singularise the adjective. Doh. Sackcloth and ashes.djewesbury wrote:I thought Amicus Curiae?
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Note to self: pictures 17714 to 17719.Messrs Christie and Manson, in their splendid catalogue of the “Interesting and Valuable Collection of Antiquities … The Property of The Commandant Barbetti” to be auctioned on 1 June 1857, wrote:Scarabs, Mounted in Gold and Silver.147 …
Scarabs, In Cornelian, Mounted.162 …
Scarabæi, In Green Jasper, (not Mounted).408 …
Scarabs, In Soft Stone and Porcelain.442 …
Scarabæi, In Green Jasper, Mounted in Silver.460 …
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This is a curious one. In Dorothy L. Sayers's The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club (the one, you will remember, with a rather nice description of the Cockburn 1886), the plural of a family name is always printed with an apostrophe, viz:
Now this is done with such consistency that it can't be a typo every time. Sayers was also quite the grammarian so not given to casual solecisms. Is this some sort of strange slang possessive, as in "I've just been to the family of The Rushworth"? Rather like clan chieftains might be referred to as, for instance, The O'Rahilly, or The Turnbull?
Any thoughts?
Now this is done with such consistency that it can't be a typo every time. Sayers was also quite the grammarian so not given to casual solecisms. Is this some sort of strange slang possessive, as in "I've just been to the family of The Rushworth"? Rather like clan chieftains might be referred to as, for instance, The O'Rahilly, or The Turnbull?
Any thoughts?
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