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The Origin of the Word 'Mammoth'
There is an analogous Latinized word heidelbergensis as in Homo heidelbergensis, referring to a hominid fossil first found in Heidelberg, Germany in 1907. It became a Latin word the next year when the ...
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The Origin of the Word 'Mammoth'
The modern convention in biology is that taxa get Latin names. But many of these animals weren't known in ancient Rome, and thus there isn't a Classical Latin word for them.
The usual solution is to ...
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Are the vast majority of Ukrainians more proficient in Russian than Ukrainian?
Looking at this from a software developer's perspective, there's a significant factor here that you may have overlooked. Translating a program or a website is a significant amount of work, testing, ...
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Are the vast majority of Ukrainians more proficient in Russian than Ukrainian?
The answer is certainly no.
We cannot say that this is true for the "vast" majority (say 80%), but maybe this is 50/50. In the south and east, people speak better russian due to their roots (...
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Are the vast majority of Ukrainians more proficient in Russian than Ukrainian?
After researching this a bit, I'm posting an answer to my own question, but I want to say that I welcome more answers, especially if they bring other pieces of evidence.
A 2008 Gallup poll asked ...
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