I have heard normally people speaking the in two different ways.      First the,  th-uh    Second the, thee   I think there is something with vowel sound.  Is there is really a difference or just accent.
The is sometimes pronounced &quot;tha&quot; (/ðə/) or &quot;thi&quot; (/ðiː/). Which is the correct pronunciation of this word? Are both correct and used interchangeably at specific places? If the second question is correct, please provide the rule of pronouncing at different places.
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What I was trying was - trying to write a shell script and then echo them with comma in between. But I guess a simpler effective one-liner would do the job here may be in sed/awk.  Any ideas? Creating a node fitting the horizontal width of two other nodes I have the two PGF nodes foo and bar positioned in a row.  \documentclass{article} \usepackage{tikz} \usetikzlibrary{positioning} \begin{document}   \begin{tikzpicture}[node distance=0.2cm,mynode/.style={rectangle,draw}]     \node[mynode] (foo)                {foo};     \node[mynode] (bar) [right=of foo] {bar};   \end{tikzpicture} \end{document}   How can I create a third node below those two nodes with the width of foo, bar and the node distance between them? Is there a way to do this with the fit library or is this the wrong approach? Let $a_n$ be a sequence s.t $a_1 > 0 \land a_{n+1} = a_n + \dfrac{1}{a_n}$. Prove that $a_n$ is increasing and tends to infinity Let $a_n$ be a sequence s.t $a_1 &gt; 0 \land a_{n+1} = a_n + \frac{1}{a_n}$. Prove that $a_n$ is increasing and tends to infinity.  Proof:   Consider $a_{n+1} - a_n$:  $a_{n+1} - a_n = a_n + \frac{1}{a_n} - a_n = \frac{1}{a_n}$ This is greater than $0$. Thus, $a_n$ is increasing.  Now this is where I need some help. I would like to say that $a_n$ is unbounded and then conclude that monotone and unbounded implies tending to infinity.  Maybe by contradiction? Downloading OpenStreetMap data with street names and city attributes for ArcGIS Desktop? I'm currently trying to download data from OpenStreetMap specifically from San Carlos, Venezuela. I'd like to take the OSM file and convert it to SHP for use in ArcGIS.   I've used geofabrik for other country's in the past, but Venezuela is not available for download. Exporting a bounding box of the city directly from OpenStreetMap, then using OpenStreetMap Toolbox to convert the OSM to SHP gives me the lines but it's missing street names and city. Ideally I'd have addresses as well, but I can live with just street names.  Is there any way to achieve this? Export all streets within a city from OpenStreetMap, then convert it to SHP with city and street name attributes? Continuity of function mapping connected set to connected set What UML (Unified Modelling Language) tools are available? Search field with or without a button? I can see two broad patterns as far as the design of the search field is concerned. One like we see on Google has a button that the user can hit to initiate Search. (They could also hit enter to do so)  The other pattern much like what is on this site (stackexchange) do not have a button. So the only way the user can initiate search is by hitting enter.   Has anyone done any research or analysis of this pattern ? What I have noticed is that search fields without the explicit search button (that normally is a magnifying glass) have "Search" as placeholder text, left aligned, whereas when there is no button the placeholder is usually a "Magnifying glass icon" with "Search" all left aligned. "The train will leave" vs. "is going to leave" vs. "leaves" vs. "is leaving" From the grammatical point of view all are correct, just the meaning are different, please bring your clarification, thank you.        The Train will leave at 10:00 tomorrow morning.   The Train is going to leave at 10:00 tomorrow morning.   The Train leaves at 10:00 tomorrow morning.   The Train is leaving at 10:00 tomorrow morning. Cancelled UK visa on entry Looking for a trilogy published around the early 80s.  Insect-like aliens are invading earth.  Humans' brains are placed in robotic bodies.  The protagonist is a child in one of these bodies.  He has to learn how to control the robot &amp; conserve his battery power.  Once train, he can fight back against the aliens using heat-guns + physical attacks.    The aliens are landing/spawning on sites all over the globe.  Part of the plot is discovering a method to disrupt their staging points.  It was probably young-adult oriented.  If anyone remembers this, thank you. Functions of Independent Random Variables Is the claim that functions of independent random variables are themselves independent, true?   I have seen that result often used implicitly in some proofs, for example in the proof of independence between the sample mean and the sample variance of a normal distribution, but I have not been able to find justification for it. It seems that some authors take it as given but I am not certain that this is always the case. How do I know whether to use the definite (the) or indefinite (a, an) article, and when to omit it altogether? Lag compensation with networked 2D games I want to make a 2D game that is basically a physics driven sandbox / activity game. There is something I really do not understand though. From research, it seems like updates from the server should only be about every 100ms. I can see how this works for a player since they can just concurrently simulate physics and do lag compensation through interpolation.  What I do not understand is how this works for updates from other players. If clients only get notified of player positions every 100ms, I do not see how that works because a lot can happen in 100ms. The player could have changed direction twice or so in that time. I was wondering if anyone would have some insight on this issue.  Basically how does this work for shooting and stuff like that?  Thanks