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QUESTION: IS IT APPROPRIATE TO REFER TO A JUDGE BY THE NAME OF THE PRESIDENT WHO APPOINTED HIM OR HER, I.E., AS A “TRUMP JUDGE” OR “AN OBAMA JUDGE”?

This NBC story refers to U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon as a “Trump-appointed” judge. The headline, however, calls her simply a “Trump judge.” Was the late Justice

The argument for calling Covid-19 the Wuhan Virus.

I'm going to make the controversial argument that we should actively and deliberately adjust to calling Covid-19 "The Wuhan Virus." We seem to have

Here's a question for journalists, editors and readers..

Should each mention of a person’s name in a news article be prefaced with that person’s title, e.g., “Professor” or “Mr.”? I just finished reading the attached NYT

What will the most common names be in the year 2070?

Starting this off, the most common names of 2020. Girls Olivia Emma Ava Charlotte Sophia Amelia Isabelle Mia Evelyn Harper “funny thing writing this is last two

Honorific titles are no longer needed.

The op may well be right about this. Either way, I will likely regret commenting on it. But, in my view, it simply doesn't matter that much whether we have a norm

Is referring to famous composers with their surnames a problem?

We can never reach peak wokeness. There will always be new levels to reach, created by the column-inchers. There is a ratchet effect at work. As the general public

The name & knowing

There’s a big difference between knowing the name of something & knowing something. Richard Feynman Steepshot IPFS IOS Android Web

Session 8 Skill Practice Activity Naming alkenes

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Session 7 Skill Practice Activity Naming alkanes

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Session 6 Naming Branched Hydrocarbons Alkanes and Alkenes

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Session 5 Naming Branched hydrocarbons overview

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Session 4 Naming & drawing basic alkenes skill practice activity

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Session 3 Naming & drawing basic alkanes Skill Practice

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# 8 - Introduction to Stacking Nomenclature

I have been here at steemit for a little more than a month and I know how difficult it is for beginners to understand the lingo of the community. I am not talking

Yeo All Are in a Weird Navy

ISIS is on our doorstep as we speak, and has committed unspeakable acts of terrorism within our borders. It is not pretty, and to crush this threat we need all the

Paleo internecine friction

A history, as I saw it, of the evolution of the evolutionary diet's name. Loren Cordain, a great guy as far as I know, owns the trademark on "The Paleo Diet".

How the word "bastard" got it's second meaning

The word bastard used to simply mean "born out of wedlock", but came to mean a ruthless person. It featured in South Park a lot in it's second meaning: