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A reconstruction of a Peloponnesian soldier, based on archeological excavations

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New phonetic alphabet[edit]

Letter	Word	1972 version[1]	BNL song	other suggestions
A	aether	aesthetic	aisle		"A" is aether across the aisles
B	bdellium	bdellium	bdellium	bdellometer	"B" is blessing with bdellium and a bdellatomy
C	czar	cyst	czar	Chanukkah, chthonic	"C" is the czar celebrating Chanukkah
D	Django	djellaba	djinn ("gin")	Dzongkha, 'dswounds ("zounds")	"D" is a djinn dressed in a djellaba
E	Euphrates	euphemism	Euphrates	eye, ewe	"E" is the eye of the Euphrates
F	ffoulkes	feign	fohn ("phone")	--> but dicts have "fain" or "fern", not "fone"
G	gnome	gnat	gnarly	gnu, gaol, gjetost	"G" is a gnome going to gaol
H	hour	heuristic	hour	honor, hlonipa, Hsi-an	"H" is the honor/hour of Hsian
I	IHVH	ithyphallic	irk		"I" is irking to IHVH
J	jarlsberg	jarlsberg	jalapeño		"J" is jarlsberg cheese with jalapeños
K	knickers	knickers	knick-knack	kshatriya, ktypeite ("tipi-ite"), kvetch	"K" is a knight knitting knickers
L	llama	llama	llama ("yama")	Llandudno, Lodz, Lancut ("wine-soot")	"L" is the llamas of Lancut
M	mnemonic	mnemonic	mnemonic	mnemic, Mpret ("bret")	"M" is a mnemonic for Mpret
N	Ndilo ("Deelo")	nuance	Ngomo ("Gomo")	Nguyen ("win"), Ngaio	"N" is the Nguyen family of Ndilo
O	oestrogen	oestrogen	Ouija board	oud
P	psychotic	pneumonia	pneumonia, pterodactyl, psychosis	Przewalski's horse, pneus "news"? pseud?	"P" is a psychotic pterodactyl
Q	qi?	quay	qat ("cat")	--> dicts have "kaht", not "cat"	"Q" is unloading qat on the quay
R	Rzeszów	rhythm	"R-gyle"	Rwanda
S	sjambok	sjambok	Saar	sbirro, 'Sblood, sphere, Szechuan
T	Tlingit ("Klinkit")	tzar	tsunami	Tchaikovski, tmesis
U	uilleann	ulema	urn	uakari, Uighur, Uitlander	"U" is uilleann pipes painted on an urn
V	veld ("felt")	veldt	vraisemblance	Vlach, vlei
W	who	wrath	wren, wrinkly, who	wrack, wheki ("feki"), Whakatane	"W" is whoever wrecked Whakatane
X	Xhosa	xylophone	Xi'an	Xmas	"X" is Xmas in Xhosaland
Y	ych a fi?	yttrium	yperite	Ypers ("wipers") , you
Z	Zsa Zsa	zloty	zed	zwitterion, zhuyin

Unified English Spelling[edit]

Thanks to Angr. My prefs:

-our/-or: US (etymology, derivation, length)
-re/-er: UK (etymology, derivation, but counterexamples fiber/fibrous, sober/sobriety, enter/entrance; on the other hand, centre/centering)
-ise/-ize: US/UK -ize (already in both countries, etymology, disambiguation)
-ogue/-og; -gramme/-gram, -fence/-fense, -exion/-ection: US (etymology, derivation, uniformity)
ae,oe / e: US (length)
ll/l: US (stress rules; woollen okay)
l/ll: US (derivation, stress rules)
license, and practice: US (derivation, pronunciation)
grey, cosy, artefact, vice (tool), mollusc, pyjamas, calliper, moustache, camomile (UK)
disk, tire, skeptic, carburetor, check, jewelry (US)
ax(e), mo(u)ld, mo(u)lt, plow/plough, sulfur/sulphur, liquorice/licorice, yog(h)urt (who cares)
story, cipher, draft (other form being abandoned in UK)

but

alumin(i)um

doesn't belong because it's not just a spelling difference.

Others:

judgement, acknowledgment: UK (derivation)

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Statistical significance in polls[edit]

Responses in an opinion poll need to be separated by 2σ to be considered significant. (A difference of 2σ gives a 97.7% probability,[3]; a difference of 1.65σ is 95% probable.[4])

The p = 0.1 for 95% significance above a specific percentage is 1.28σ.[5]

From the math ref desk:

The problem of computing mean value and standard deviation for the result of polls is solved here: [[6]]. If the first poll shows X₁ ≈ μ₁ ± σ₁ and the second poll shows X₂ ≈ μ₂ ± σ₂ , then compute the difference X = X₁ − X₂ ≈ (μ₁ ± σ₁) − (μ₂ ± σ₂) = (μ₁ − μ₂) ± √(σ₁² + σ₂²) = μ ± σ . Compute the quotient U = μ/σ . If, say, U=2.7, then try www.wolframalpha.com with input CDF[NormalDistribution[0, 1], 2.7] , and get the probability 0.996533. Bo Jacoby (talk) 06:37, 22 April 2014 (UTC).

The sampling error z for 95% confidence (p=0.05) is 1.96σ. Thus the above would be 0.653 and 0.842 z.