I can see that , where you can’t hear the vowel in the ‑man syllable.  But sometimes it is pronounced /pəʊs(t)mæn/  — with a noticeable /æ/ vowel like in the word man — as heard in the  from more than fifty years ago.   Why is postman sometimes pronounced differently in different times, places, or situations?   What is the real pronunciation of the word?
It seems that in the words Englishman, Frenchman, and Scotsman, the ‑man part is pronounced /mən/ (just like in Roman).  Whereas in snowman, the ‑man part is pronounced /mæn/ (just like in no man).  Why is it that when ‑man is appended to snow‑ to make snowman, the pronunciation of the man part doesn’t change?    Wouldn’t it logically follow for it to be pronounced /ˈsnowmən/ not /ˈsnowˌmæn/?
I'm trying to install KDE 5 on my Ubuntu 16.04 system as per the instructions in , but I'm getting the below error message when running sudo apt-get install kubuntu-desktop.  Is there something I can do to resolve this?  Need to get 682 kB/326 MB of archives. After this operation, 1,272 MB of additional disk space will be used. Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y Err:1 http://ir.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial/universe amd64              gtk2-engines-oxygen amd64 1.4.6-1ubuntu1   Temporary failure resolving 'ir.archive.ubuntu.com' Get:2 http://ir.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial/universe amd64              libkf5sendlater5 amd64 4:15.12.3-0ubuntu1 [45.2 kB] Get:3 http://ir.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial/universe amd64              libthreadweaver4 amd64 4:4.14.16-0ubuntu3 [46.6 kB] Get:4 http://ir.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial/universe amd64              libfarstream-0.2-5 amd64 0.2.7-0ubuntu1 [192 kB] Fetched 284 kB in 1min 9s (4,093 B/s)         E: Failed to fetch http://ir.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/universe/g/             gtk2-engines-oxygen/gtk2-engines-oxygen_1.4.6-1ubuntu1_amd64.deb               Temporary failure resolving 'ir.archive.ubuntu.com'  E: Unable to fetch some archives, maybe run apt-get update or              try with --fix-missing? Google search results showing up a URL on its search which doesn't exist on the website I am using a keyword to display a website page on google search. After entering the keyword, on the first page of google, I am redirected to a page, whose domain is exactly similar to the website whose page I want to display, but it is showing a page which doesn't even exist on the domain. Also, as similar domain with spam characteristics is also getting displayed.   To practically demonstrate this issue, do follow the below steps.   Go to  Type dolce streichquartett and click on search. The 4th/5th URL has this link http://www.dolce-streichquartett.de/?high_ry=/casinos/de/spielautomaten-casino-bregenz.php, which is no where on the website and looks like spam The 7th/8th link you see is http://deonlinecasino.org/doc/kostenlos-roulette-spielen-spielgeld-ausdrucken.php, which is exactly similar to the above with the title as the keyword but a different domain.   What is this issue and why is this happening? Error when creating data with special characters and numbers My code will not project and store the feature layer in the scratch.gdb. "ERROR 999999 ... The table name is invalid. The table was not found. [17_5330_51961Lake]"  The interpreter doesn't like "-" characters or beginning or ending in a number. Does anyone know of a work around?  import arcpy import os  mxd = arcpy.mapping.MapDocument("Current") mxdpath = mxd.filePath (filepath, filename) = os.path.split(mxdpath) MCP_Path = str(filepath)  srl = os.path.join(MCP_Path, r"CoordinateSystems\NAD 1983 UTM Zone 17N.prj")  WBYLID = "17-5330-51961"  WBYLIDlabel = WBYLID.replace("-","_")  LakeOut = os.path.join(MCP_Path + "\OutputData\Scratch.gdb", WBYLIDlabel + "Lake") arcpy.Project_management(fl, LakeOut, srl) Different results for integration using Mathematica and MATLAB Daily reputation cap doesn't account for reputation * loss* due to bounty awarded? There are many Q&amp;A's around this and the best explanation of daily cap model is from this answer that uses . It is an old answer but gives a good understanding.   My confusion is in applying this model to my situation yesterday.    On 31/12/2019, I awarded a bounty to , since it became eligible for bounty (2 days after posting it). Subsequently, I got more upvotes (including one accept) which exceeded the daily cap of 200. I am confused about this-loss of reputation due to bounty awarded by me preceeded subsequent gain of reputation so going by the bucket analogy, I should have my rep adjusted accordingly and those 6 up votes (at the bottom of table) should have been credited (rep should have been 177 instead of 117),  /reputation shows this   2 219845 (10)  1 219884 (2)  2 170717 (10)  2 219621 (10)  2 219845 (10) 2 219845 (10) 2 218537 (10)  2 219845 (10)  2 219892 (10)  2 219845 (10) 8 219821 (-100)  2 219845 (10)  2 219621 (10)  2 219845 (10)  2 219821 (10)  2 219845 (10)  2 219845 (10)  2 219845 (10)  2 219912 (10)  1 219912 (15)  2 219845 (10)  2 219845 (10)  2 219892 [10]  2 219845 [0]  2 219621 [0]  2 219845 [0]  2 219845 [0]  2 219845 [0]  2 219845 [0]  -- 2019-12-31 rep +117 = 27089 --   It is not the 6 votes I am bothered about, it is more about trying to correct my understanding  or have I stumbled upon an anomaly? I just visited Ask Ubuntu (askubuntu.com) while logged into Stack Exchange, and noticed that "join this community" doesn't appear:    It is similarly broken on Math Overflow (mathoverflow.net). It works, however, on all sites that are subdomains of stackexchange.com, like Mathematics (math.stackexchange.com) and Academia.  I'm using Google Chrome version 46.0.2490.86 on Windows 8.1 Update 1.  (I don't know if this can actually be fixed, given how cookie security works, but I figured Stack Exchange should be aware of the issue.) Running command on multiple files within multiple directories I want to run the command   python quast.py -o quast contigs.fasta   but I want to do this for multiple contigs.fasta files in multiple directories.  I'm running OSX. Factorial sum estimate $\sum_{n=m+1}^\infty \frac{1}{n!} \le \frac{1}{m\cdot m!}$ Prove that:  $$\displaystyle \sum_{n=m+1}^\infty \dfrac{1}{n!} \le \dfrac{1}{m\cdot m!}$$  I have tried induction on $m$ but it does not work very well. Any suggestion? Is there a package to secure rendered pdf with a password? I'm used to always hearing or seeing a  before certain nouns.  Yet on certain occasions the article is totally omitted, and it bothers me.  I'm wondering what the justification for omitting the article is, especially when the definite article would seem to be required, or if it is just bad English either on the part of the individual in question or more likely by tradition.  The most frequent place I hear this is at the doctor or dentist's office. In every one I have ever visited, the receptionist or assistant always says things like "Doctor will see you shortly" instead of "The doctor will see you shortly."  The wikipedia article linked above says this: "A definite article indicates that its noun is a particular one (or ones) identifiable to the listener".  In the case of a clinical setting, I know who the doctor is, especially if this is not my first visit.  The people in the office know the doctor even better than I, so it would seem to be inappropriate to omit the article. Even the indefinite article would be incorrect. It further says, under "Zero article":  "In languages having a definite article, the lack of an article specifically indicates that the noun is indefinite."  Since the noun is not indefinite, why are they omitting the article?  Another place I see the article omitted is with the word "bar".  Bartenders apparently don't say "I tend the bar" they say "I tend bar".  Unless a bartender works in multiple bars, it would seem like an article would be required.  Furthermore, "the bar" can mean any bar a person goes to, so even in a case like , it seems like the word "the" should be in the sentence.  The only thing I can think of in this case is maybe the speaker doesn't want to confuse the listener into thinking they work in the legal field.  Is this just a bad habit, a historical corruption or tradition, or is there really a valid reason (or perhaps more than one) for these omissions? Why are the shebang parts of the following elementary scripts not working:  $ cat hello.sh #! /bin/sh echo Hello $ ./hello.sh bash: ./hello.sh: /bin/sh^M: bad interpreter: No such file or directory  $ cat hello.py #! /usr/bin/env python3 print("Hello") $ ./hello.py : No such file or directory   whereas calling the interpreter manually is working:  $ sh hello.sh Hello $ python3 hello.py Hello Where does gravitational waves' energy go? Is it possible to trade CFD without leverage? I'm new to trading. Based on what I read, trading CFD involves high risk because of leverage.   Is it possible to trade CFD stocks without leverage (in Etoro for example)?  If this is possible, then I would lose/gain only the percentage by which the stock goes down/up.  Thank you Suppose that $(U,V)$ has the following joint pdf: $$f_{U,V}(u,v)=\exp(-\theta u-\theta^{-1}v)$$ , where $u\geq0$, $v\geq0$, $\theta&gt;0$. Define $X=UV$ and $Y=U/V$. Find the marginal pdf of $X$ and $Y$.  With transformation, I got $U=\sqrt{XY}$ and $V=\sqrt{X/Y}$ and the absolute value of Jacob is $1/2Y$. Then, the joint pdf of $(X,Y)$ is  $$f_{X,Y}(x,y)=\exp(-\theta \sqrt{XY}-\theta^{-1}\sqrt{X/Y})1/2Y, X,Y&gt;0.$$  But I am not sure how to get the marginal pdf?  Thank you! Need help to install persistent Ubuntu on USB drive Possible Duplicate:          I am a new user of Ubuntu. I would like to install a persistent Ubuntu 11.04 to my USB stick, and it should be able to work as a guest OS running on Windows so that I can boot it on other computers other than the one which I used for the installation. I have used several creators such as unetbootin, however from my understanding it can only create Live Linux which I am unable to save my configurations and files. If it's possible I would like to bypass the BIOS, that is to say that I can just load from the virtual machine without having to restart the computer. Thanks in advance!    Thanks for all the replies! Hi Mike, I am able to create a virtual machine and run it from my USB drive using a portable virtualbox. How do I go about from there, do I have to proceed with the installation? Could you elaborate more on the steps for the installation? Thanks again! Does LED brightness change with voltage? I have a question regarding the two QGIS Versions 2 and 3. When I load exactly the same raster file into QGIS 2 and QGIS 3 I get different min/max values, how is this possible? I have used the same coordination system. How to find application's path from command line? For example, I have git installed on my system. But I don't remember where I installed it, so which command is fit to find this out? I already searched the internet but could not find a solution to this. Maybe it is the same question as  but there was no answer.  I want to render a video with tracking, but the output "loses" color information and gets kind of greyish. I first thought that it is related to the renderer, but it happens in Cycles and Eevee. Therefore i made a sample image, added it to the image sequence editor and rendered it as 1 frame. Resulting in the same problem.  I placed the original image beside blenders output so that you can see the difference. The only idea I came up with is that something with the lighting is not correct but I can't find a setting for that.  I am using Blender 2.80 with the default settings. Only set the output resolution to match the input resolution. $\operatorname{Aut}(V)$ is isomorphic to $S_3$ I'm currently working my way through Harvard's online abstract algebra lectures (if you're interested, you can find them ).  The lectures come complete with notes and homework problems.  Of course, since I don't actually go to Harvard, I can't hand in the homework assignments to find out if I'm doing them correctly.  So I've decided to try to crowd source the grading of my solutions.  I'll post individual questions as I finish them and wait for comments.  I would like to get critiques of not just my reasoning but the style of my write ups as well.  Also, any alternative approaches to the problem would be welcome.  I've looked for forums dedicated to these kinds of OCW courses but have not been able to find any.  This surprises me.  It seems like, with the advent of these free online educational resources, an online meeting place for those who take advantage of them would be a natural offshoot.  So this might be a bit of an experiment.  Unless I'm the 873rd person to post something like this here.  If that's the case, sorry for being so long winded.  Anyway, on with the question.  This one is assigned in the 4th lecture.     Let $V$ denote the Klein 4-group.  Show that $\operatorname{Aut}(V)$ is isomorphic to $S_3$.   (I've moved my solution below to keep this question from showing up in the unanswered list.)  Thanks...