Malgas

Well, not always: Plural ‘they’ is a borrowing from Old Norse ca. 1200 AD, and the earliest attestation of singular ‘they’ is about a century later.

But, yeah, you’d think 700 years of continuous use would be enough to make it uncontroversial…

And, to the extent that it was occult, it was typically biblical occultism. There was a big emphasis on the wisdom of Solomon in particular.

Latin also used apple as a stand-in for generic fruit, cf. malum persicum (“Persian apple”) meaning peach.

And, fun fact, the English word “pineapple” was originally synonymous with “pinecone” (i.e. the fruit of the pine tree).

That said, the bandwidth of strapping microSD cards to carrier pigeons is actually pretty high.

Oxen

Children

Brethren

Regexen

It’s Clarke’s Third Law.

Why is the third one not:

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?