@metrorailinfo.bsky.social Any chance I can ask lost & found to look out for this baby shoe’s twin, likeliest on an eastbound B/O/S passing Potomac Ave around 12:28, less likely inside L’Enfant?
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![Although it occurs at least occasionally nationwide, T-glottalization at word boundaries, as in "right ankle", is more common in Western dialects, particularly among younger speakers and women.!"!! The use of a full (orally released) rather than syllabic pronunciation of /an/ in the sequence /-tan/, in words like "kitten" or
"mountain", is a minor but noted variant reported in the West, for example among some Californians and younger, female Utah speakers;
(12) thus, kitten as ['k"I?an] in addition to more General American ['k'I?n]; however, this feature has also been reported elsewhere in the country, like New Jersey. 131 Men and teenage girls from Utah are also slightly more likely than average to elide the /t/ altogether in these words, and Utahns as a whole are slightly less likely to glottalize the /t/ in general. [14]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:7nadgz5apvben2r2a7qk37u6/bafkreifeaxz7ogsrbzagz3fyj2brd3lntheldy27bnhuxp6j5rlvlner5y)
![Giving official sanction to one particular view, however, set the stage for a good deal of bloodshed. Historian Ralph Martin Novak, Jr., notes:
By adopting a statement of "orthodox
Christian belief," the bishops who prevailed at Nicaea drew a line in the sand with respect to all other forms of Christian belief. Christians who refused to adopt the orthodoxy defined at Nicaea would eventually be required to pay for their "heretical" beliefs in blood: more Christians died at the hands of Christians during the seventy-five years following the council of Nicaea than had died as martyrs under the almost three hundred years of Roman persecution. [4]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:7nadgz5apvben2r2a7qk37u6/bafkreifr5x5mosyoio6vfbc4hnbfx4v7rrahmr6ado2infexgfrrz7ryue)
![[4] Ralph Martin Novak, Jr., Christianity and the Roman Empire: Background Texts (Harrisburg, Penn.: Trinity Press International, 2001), 176.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:7nadgz5apvben2r2a7qk37u6/bafkreihv32fdtfj7w7bls4acjkiwccrrct36xgp2zeb2tbxoyv35gbc56i)
![13. Because the Turkish Airline provided free travel benefits worth tens of thousands of dollars to ERIC ADAMS, the defendant, he flew the Turkish Airline even when doing so was otherwise inconvenient. For example, during the July and August 2017 trip, Adams's Partner was surprised to learn that ADAMS was in Turkey when she had understood him to be flying from New York to France. ADAMS responded, in a text message, "Transferring here. You know first
stop is always instanbul [sic]." When Adams's Partner later inquired about planning a trip to Easter Island, Chile, ADAMS repeatedly asked her whether the Turkish Airline could be used for their flights, requiring her to call the Turkish Airline to confirm that they did not have routes between New York and Chile.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:7nadgz5apvben2r2a7qk37u6/bafkreiefnoekkkgoswwkinmcy7ijbcdfvzkoa6w6rkokt5uk33yevrtnxu)
![Metapoetically, Roger L. Robison crafted this poem describing itself: [Note 2]
CITATION
[Note 2] Sonnets and haikus await his analysis; metapoetics could fill a whole shelf.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:7nadgz5apvben2r2a7qk37u6/bafkreif7mkxa7wbusraw2idfl4asq62prigpazjpz5smmzqguu6tqf7wui)
![Received text messages:
do you ever ponder the fact that the Lord has infinite attention
another way in which the Incarnation blows my mind. imagine WILLINGLY TAKING ON the condition of finite attention.
[finally read chris hayes' new book]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:7nadgz5apvben2r2a7qk37u6/bafkreiakxbijmbhuwmmqegjxnfokxvt74xwu6hfqmsasc2uguqqub5x4ie)
![a1637 Hee makes that his Center attractive, to draw thither a diversity of Guests, all persons of different humours to make up his Perimiter.
B. Jonson, Magnetick Lady Induct. 110 in Workes
(1640) vol. |II
1785 The ladies are now so ballooned from head to foot, and so bedeckt with such a diversity of plumage, that [etc.].
J. Atkinson, Mutual Deception i. i. 6
1837 The Muscovite nobility have no occupation but pleasure..continually engaged in balls and concerts, bear dances, bear fights, and an endless diversity of amusements.
Hull Packet 10 February 4/1
.. .
1974 Frogs breed in a diversity of habitats.
Science 26 July 377/1
2011 Art endures in a staggering diversity of styles: Classical Greek art, Tibetan art, African Art,..cubism, fauvism, abstract art-the list is endless.
V. S. Ramachandran, Tell-tale Brain (2012) vii. 193](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:7nadgz5apvben2r2a7qk37u6/bafkreigfbynblgqmhkxhf5hncrfenkz3eykuyycrtd3jjavr3zse42dcyy)
![OED.com screenshot:
2.a. † Variety (of things); various kinds. Chiefly with of. Obsolete.
In quot. a1382': clothing of various colours.
a1382-1616
(a1382) Forgyd of gold & of syluer..& dyuersete [altered to dyuerste; a1425 Corpus Christi Oxford MS. dyuerste; a1425 L.V. dyuersite; Latin diversitate] of treese.
Bible (Wycliffite, early version) (Bodleian MS. 959) (1959) Exodus xxxi. 5 .
[Composed a1382]
(a1382) The doȝter of the king. in goldene hemmes; aboute wrappid with diuersetees [Latin circumamicta varietatibus].
Bible (Wycliffite, early version) (Douce MS. 369(1))
(1850) Psalms xliv. 15 [Composed a1382]
?c1400 (c1380) It nediþ of ful many [emended in ed. to manye] helpynges to kepen pe dyuersite of preciouse ostelmentȝ.
G. Chaucer, translation of Boethius, De Consolatione Philosophiae (British Library Add. MS. 10340) (1868) ii. pr. v. I. 1266 ..
[Composed c1380]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:7nadgz5apvben2r2a7qk37u6/bafkreiffh7nrvilp65pkhua5ph7pqgoux55ibw5ginflckyocsujk4cjwa)
