Great grandfather’s sister’s grandson is your second cousin once removed. That guy is the second cousin of one of your parents because they share great grandparents with one of your parents. A grandparent’s sibling is a great aunt or great uncle to you. A great grandparent’s sibling is a great great uncle or great great aunt to you.
Not in classical Sanskrit. Vedic Sanskrit had pitch accent, which had been lost by the classical Sanskrit era. English has stress accent. But many languages do not have stress accent, and either have pitch accent or syllables are not accented at all.
Perhaps the Giant London Flea Market will start a trend: https://www.queenelizabetholympicpark.co.uk/whats-on/giant-london-flea-market
A number of Slavic, Baltic, Norse, (and also Finnic languages like Finnish and Estonian) use some form of this word for market. It originated in Proto-slavic and passed through Old Norse into descendant languages.
https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/търгъ#Old_East_Slavic
The most interesting thing is that the root appears to have borrowed into Finnish twice, once probably from Slavic (as turku) and once from Old Norse (as tori).
This answer is spot on. I know this varies by state but in my state every intersection is legally a crosswalk, regardless of markings, and drivers are required to stop at them and yield right of way to pedestrians. This applies whether the pedestrians are in the crosswalk or appear to be attempting to enter the crosswalk. The area legally designated as crosswalk is the space between the stop sign and the road, and in the vast majority of cases in suburban areas is unmarked. There is no way in most of these that a driver will be able to see pedestrians or cyclists coming, especially from the right, unless they stop at that stop sign. The correct procedure is to stop at the sign, determine that the pedestrian way is clear, and then pull forward to the road. There’s almost 1 pedestrian death an hour in the US and most of these deaths are avoidable from the driver’s point of view just by following this and other legally mandated procedures.
I think it goes back to Fannie Farmer in 1896, who wrote the first major and comprehensive cookbook in English that used any kind of standard measurements. European cookbooks mostly used vague instructions without any standardized weights or numbers before that. At this point in the industrialized world standardized cup measures were relatively cheap and available. Scales were relatively bulky, expensive, and inaccurate in 1896. So the whole tradition got started, and most of the major cookbooks owed something to Fannie Farmer. Cookbooks that used standardized weights probably got started in other countries much later, when scales were becoming commonplace.
It’s debated. One source points to the lower end of the scale established as the freezing point of a brine made by dissolving ammonium chloride in water.
Plausible. What’s definitely true is that the George association has zero support from any reputable published source, and is just speculation.
Yeah, it’s bogus. This is some speculation that someone put in Wikipedia but there’s no published source. It’s just a folk etymology that some enthusiast thought was endearing. Not a single reputable source will substantiate this, like most folk etymologies.
The majority of large cities have “non-partisan” mayoral elections in the US. But most politicians are still going to be members of parties. About 2/3 of the 100 largest cities have mayors affiliated with the Democratic party, since support for Democrats is much stronger in cities than in rural areas. Some states, such as Florida and Texas, have large cities with Republican mayors, but northern cities usually elect mayors who are Democrats. In partisan mayoral elections, the parties hold primaries and voters select the candidate they want their party to endorse. In cities with large Democratic majorities that also hold partisan elections, the primary is functionally more like a general election. So basically different cities function differently, but mayoral candidates are still going to have ideologies that align them with parties, and those ideologies usually have local, not just national, impact. And informed voters will still want to know those ideologies.