put the phone to my ear
Clearly you would look more normal if you blast it on the speaker while holding the phone in front of you, like everyone else. /s
tychosmoose
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It's funny that there are two unambiguous alternatives to bimonthly, but they both mean 2x/month: fortnightly and semimonthly.
Both German and Dutch distinguish their equivalent words with clear prefixes meaning half- and two-. The English word was unclear after 1066 since the French word bimensuel would have been used by the new bosses. And that means 2x/month. English used bimensual for a while before developing a new, worse word with the Latin origin bi- and the Germanic origin -monthly. And it seems to have been ambiguous from the start. So this has probably been messed up for almost 1050 years.
Maybe we should resurrect the Old English prefix twi- to make a new(old) 1x/2months word twimonthly or more intuitively, twomonthly that we can use in opposition with halfmonthly.
We are on Fidelity. But self-directed on all the big ones are no fee and free trades these days - Vanguard, Fidelity, Merrill and probably others. Just need to watch the fund/ETF fees to have a total cost.
That's better for sure. Still too much for me. Our all-in investment cost is 0.05% now. That's a lot of free compounded yield compared against guided investments which are themselves no better than the average market (on average).
That's all fine, but just be sure you know how much you're paying them for that service. Before we switched to self-managed a number of years ago our guys were taking 1.4% off the top of the whole account just to pick a bunch of index ETFs. Market goes up 5% and I only see 3.6% of it. Not good. Plus the ETFs they picked had higher expenses than just going with a whole market choice.
They offered to get us on a plan at 1%. Ha, no thanks.
Well this has been an interesting rabbit hole. It seems there are similar sites all around the Rhodope mountains in this area of Bulgaria. One of the largest and most studied is Глухите камъни (Gluhite Kamani or The Deaf Stones) further to the east. It has a Wikipedia page but only in Bulgarian. Excavations at that site starting in 2008 suggest the most active period was around the 1st millennium BCE, probably by Thracians. More can be found by searching for the site name and the archaeologists Georgi Nehrizov and Doychin Grozdanov. One of their preliminary conclusions was that the area was used more for ritual drinking and feasting rather than permanent habitation.
The niches are similar in opening shape (trapezoidal) to larger rock-cut tombs in the area. It has been speculated that they may have been to hold the remains of people who weren't interred in the larger tombs.
There are also theories connecting them to somewhat similar rock-cut features in Anatolia, thought to be associated with a cult of the Mountain Mother (Kybele) and carved by Phrygians. Thracians are said to have come from Anatolia originally as well so there could be a connection.
Interesting. I wonder if they vary the cut based on what else is trendy at the time. Or by region.
Edit: yeah, I see your latest. Not surprised tbh.
501 is the style
0126 is the color
32x34 is the size in inches waist x inseam
Levi's still sell non-stretch 501, and they should fit pretty much the same (although there is a lot more variation from one batch to the next than there used to be). If you can order from Levi's online you should be able to get similar ones. Or check any shops for 501 32x34 in 100% cotton.
Another option would be to get the original 501 shrink-to-fit (color 000). It's a process to break them in (not as much as heavier denim), but they should last longer since they're not stonewashed or otherwise treated to make them soft. Just read up on sizing first.
What a cool find. The Must Farm dig for anyone else interested. I have seen these socketed axe heads in museums but didn't really understand the proportions of the complete tool.
Such unlikely circumstances to burn then extinguish and then preserve this family's possessions for so many centuries.
The British Museum says 16th-19th century for this piece. It's from the collection of Benin Bronzes looted from Benin City during the Benin Punitive Expedition of 1897.
My favorite French borrowings are gentle, genteel and jaunty. All borrowed from gentil (kind, pleasant, nice), but at different times (13th century, late 16th, and 17th, respectively).
The French word is from Latin gentilis, meaning "of the Roman clan." English borrowed that from Latin as gentile.
So we have 4 English words, all from the same Latin origin. Of them, genteel is probably closest to the Old French pronunciation (but the vowels are still a little bit different).