How do I pronounce "Sauron"? I have always pronounced Sauron like 'S-ow-ron', after reading Appendix E of the Lord of the Rings, but now I just listened to  recording of Tolkien reciting the Eagles' Song, and it sounds like he is saying "Saw-ron".  Did I mis-hear it, or did Tolkien do a mistake? Or am I supposed to pronounce it that way, and he wrote "Sauron" so that people would read it as "Sawron"? Highly unlikely, I think . . .
Is "Smaug" pronounced "Smog"? Did Tolkien the linguist intend for the name of the dragon Smaug to be pronounced "Smog" [IPA: /smɒɡ/ or /smɔːɡ/]? The trailer for the second installment of The Hobbit trilogy pronounces the word (pronounced 'sma-ow-g' [IPA: /smaʊɡ/]) entirely differently than the way I have been reading it for all these many years.
Is it possible to upgrade the graphics card in modern laptops? As there's no definitive answer to this, and I would prefer not to be too specific about particular models, what are the things that determine whether this is possible or not?   What expansion slots would the laptop require to do this? How can you find out if a motherboard/chipset supports upgrades?  Is heat an issue? Could it void the warranty? How is battery life affected? After plain installation of Ubuntu 16.04 LTS gnome-software doesn't work. It has opened once with GUI, but installation of Unity Tweak Tool didn't finish.  When starting again, GUI doesn't come up. When opening from terminal, a warning appears, but the application GUI doesn't open.  $ gnome-software (gnome-software:7052): Gs-WARNING: failed to open plugin /usr/lib/gs-plugins-9/libgs_plugin_xdg_app_reviews.so: /usr/lib/gs-plugins-9/libgs_plugin_xdg_app_reviews.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory   Does anybody have same experience, and eventually, a solution?    According to the recommendation:  $ dpkg-query -S /usr/lib/gs-plugins-9/libgs_plugin_xdg_app_reviews.so gnome-software: /usr/lib/gs-plugins-9/libgs_plugin_xdg_app_reviews.so   Proposed reinstall of gnome-software did not help.    As workaround, use Synaptic Package manager and command line. The Stack Overflow search shows questions twice. See  for example.  Results include "A: Add Search Engine into MVC Music Store" and "Q: Add Search Engine into MVC Music Store".  Why is search displaying the question twice, and what does "Q" and "A" mean?  Edit:   @Stephen answer :  The search is returning both a question (Q) and an answer (A) to the question, as both posts match your search criteria.  and my another question  If the question have multiple (like 100) answer ,then the answer link(A: Question Link) shown 100 times?  Is it correct functionality ? But i saw only one answer link , not a other answer link .. why ? Let $G$ be a group, where $(ab)^3=a^3b^3$ and $(ab)^5=a^5b^5$. Prove that $G $ is an abelian group. Let G be a group, where $(ab)^3=(a^3)(b^3)$ and $(ab)^5=(a^5)(b^5)$. Prove that $G$ is abelian group.  Thank you in advance. Any help is appreciated. I installed Ubuntu 18.04, and I want to customize the fonts. I have already change all the setting by tweak tool. But the system default font not be changed, is anything I need to do? If I run history, I can see my latest executed commands.  But if I do tail -f $HISTFILE or tail -f ~/.bash_history, they do not get listed.  Does the file get locked, is there a temporary location or something similar? Intuitively, $\lim\limits_{t\to -\infty}te^t=0$, since $e^t\to 0$ much faster than $t\to -\infty$.   Is there a way to more rigorously compute this? Writing it as $e^t/(1/t)$ seems resistant to l'Hopital's rule. Is there a way to refresh Notepad? Say, for example, that there's one process that's writing to a file. While the process is running, I opened the file in notepad. The process keeps  writing to the file.   Other than closing and reopening the file, is there any way for me to "refresh" the data that notepad is showing? Continuous footnote numbering I would like footnote numbering to continue over pages and chapters. In my document it's reset every chapter. I'm using the report documentclass. I'm trying to include Arabic text in an English document (I'm a new latex user), but I can't seem to get any Arabic text to render at all, using xelatex or any kind of tex. I'm using texshop 3.51 on a mac. I can't get this basic example to work, it just displays question marks in the output pdf.  \documentclass[12pt]{article} \usepackage[utf]{arabxetex} \newfontfamily\arabicfont[Script=Arabic]{Amiri} \begin{document} \begin{arab}[voc] وَهَذِهِ فِقرَةٌ بِالعَرَبِيَة مَعَ كَلِمَة اِنكلِيزِيَة \end{arab} \end{document}     I've downloaded Amiri (and also Scheherazade and Lateef) into Fontbook, and they show up if I go Source->Font->Show Fonts in texshop. If I remove the Amiri part it still doesn't work.   Is there anything I can do? I've looked at other links here, like  and  but I can't even render any of those examples.   Thank you so much for any help! I'll love you forever if I can get this to work. Dictionary application needs to download dictionary "Apple Dictionary" before use Setting up SFTP to log in to server with Filezilla I have an ec2 instance on AWS which already installed a few Wordpress-es in it.  I want to set things up to let more people handle their own projects, with me also being able to go into the server using terminal if I still want to.  I have been following tutorials such as  and a few others.  I figured all of them just teach users how to sftp into their own home folder, also the steps keep saying addUser but some users already existed and removing them might cause some issue.  How can I give existing users the permission to use SFTP for Wordpress projects?  Let's say all my Wordpress projects are already under /var/www/ which has already been set up with www-data:www-data.  Really new with setting things like this.  Thanks in advance for any help. How can I automatically download lyrics in iTunes? Is there a way to automatically download lyrics in iTunes? Emoji Characters I'm trying to display Emoji Characters inside my XeLaTeX Document. It seems to work for some glyphs like the numbers and pound sign but not for all. Here is a MWE:  \documentclass{scrartcl}  \usepackage{fontspec}  \setmainfont{Apple Color Emoji} % The emoji Font   \begin{document} \char"0030{}  %Works \char"1F60D{} % Doesent Work should out put SMILEY FACE WITH HEART SHAPED EYES \end{document}   What is the reason for this strange behavior and is there a way to include Emojis in XeLaTeX?  Edit:   It seems the Character is there. It is selectable but not visible. I can copy&amp;paste it. Question mark and colon in JavaScript what is a thyristor As part of my 2330 lv3 am required to know about thyristors. I just want to confirm my understanding is correct. A thyristor is basically similar to a transistor, only it stays switched on when it's trigged for as long as there isn't a break in the circuit it's switching. Am I correct? Conditional clause (then) In this first instance the main clause only stands alone if you  omit (then).  But in the other example it clearly has a main clause. So would this be classed as an embedded main clause as it only works as a independent clause if it's adjusted and or if it's joined with a dependent clause.  If I have enough money, then I will buy a new car.  If it rains, the picnic will be cancelled.  The picnic will be cancelled if it rains. What is the difference between "owing to" and "due to"? Kill some processes by .exe file name raw_input in python without pressing enter