I'm curious if the order implies anything here. I'm pretty sure "Mom and Dad" is standard in English. The issue was hard for me to google, so I'm asking it here:  Is using "Dad" before "Mom" incorrect, or is it just not often seen/bad practice? I see both, but "Mom and Dad" is far more prevalent.  Edit: What puzzles me is that usually masculine comes before feminine. The given umich article on word order is quite instructive, and I have yet to read all of it. In Chinese and I think Spanish, the father comes first usually.  Now that I think of it, I think German features  "Mutter &amp; Vater" more often. Probably carried over into English.  Edit 2: Some  reveals that "Mom and Dad" is far more prevalent during 2005-2013.  It can make a difference though, as in an example I found: "I became my girls’ Dad and Mom when one was four years, the other three months old." This is quite clearly in the voice of the father, as shown .
Is there a word or phrase for two nouns or adjectives joined by a conjunction (usually "and") in a fixed sequence?        alive and well           fast and furious   hat and gloves   pen and pencil   law and order   wit and wisdom   salt and pepper   bacon and eggs   horse and carriage   Adam and Eve   ladies and gentlemen   loud and clear   heads or tails   yes or no   dead or alive
Installing "firmware-b43-installer" offline I'd love to see if there are trends over time, patterns of improving behaviour after being flagged, consistent reoffenders, most misused types of flag, etc.  I understand the who-said-what-about-who aspect would most likely cause this to be denied, but even anonymised data would be interesting to dig through. How can I best describe "making a new discovery"? I lost the sa password on a machine, and when I log in to the machine directly using an account in the admin group, SQL Server Management Studio will not allow me to log in using Windows authentication.  My plan was to simply log into the server, connect via Windows Authentication, and reset sa to use a new password. Since I cant' connect via Windows Authentication, this won't work.  How else can I reset the sa password? errors upgrading from 14.04 to 16.04 about Unknown Multi-Arch type for compiz, libkf5akonadisearch-bin packages I'm trying to upgrade my 14.04 machine to 16.04 using do-release-upgrade. After downloading the package lists for wily, I see the following errors:  Unknown Multi-Arch type 'no' for package 'compiz-core' Unknown Multi-Arch type 'no' for package 'compiz-gnome' Ignoring Provides line with DepCompareOp for package python-cffi-backend-api-max Ignoring Provides line with DepCompareOp for package python-cffi-backend-api-min Ignoring Provides line with DepCompareOp for package python3-cffi-backend-api-max Ignoring Provides line with DepCompareOp for package python3-cffi-backend-api-min Unknown Multi-Arch type 'no' for package 'libkf5akonadisearch-bin' Ignoring Provides line with DepCompareOp for package php-psr-http-message-implementation Ignoring Provides line with DepCompareOp for package php-psr-log-implementation Ignoring Provides line with DepCompareOp for package php-math-biginteger Unknown Multi-Arch type 'no' for package 'compiz-core' Unknown Multi-Arch type 'no' for package 'compiz-gnome' Ignoring Provides line with DepCompareOp for package python-cffi-backend-api-max Ignoring Provides line with DepCompareOp for package python-cffi-backend-api-min Ignoring Provides line with DepCompareOp for package python3-cffi-backend-api-max Ignoring Provides line with DepCompareOp for package python3-cffi-backend-api-min Unknown Multi-Arch type 'no' for package 'libkf5akonadisearch-bin' Unknown Multi-Arch type 'no' for package 'compiz-core' Unknown Multi-Arch type 'no' for package 'compiz-gnome' Unknown Multi-Arch type 'no' for package 'compiz-core' Unknown Multi-Arch type 'no' for package 'compiz-gnome' You may want to run apt-get update to correct these problems   It then proceeds to abort the installation. The suggested run of apt-get update doesn't seem to do anything. Googling for the above error messages yielded others having similar problems when upgrading to other, previous releases, although I've not come across any apparent fixes. It's suggested that an apt upgrade could fix the problem, but I don't see a way to easily do that (it's up to date with the latest trusty package).  What should I do in order to upgrade directly to 16.04? Time Dilation When In Orbit Bridge Rectifier Fails When AC Inputs are Shorted Do I need a visa to visit the UK with my EU partner? I am not from EU. I have Spanish partner and we live in Spain and, because of our official relationship, I have a Spanish family resident permit. We are going to travel to the UK together for tourism. I am confused whether I need an EEA family permit or not.  I will not live there and I'm going to travel with my partner. I was told that I don't need a visa, that showing our civil union document will be sufficent. Is this correct, or do I need a visa to enter the UK?    Thank you so much for your answer. Let me give you more detail.  I hold Turkish citizenship.  My resident card exactly says that Residence Card of a Family Member of a Union Citizen " tarjeta de familiar de la union.   my case is like For example, a non-EEA spouse of a German national living in Germany will usually hold a residence permit issued under German domestic law. Therefore, a United Kingdom EEA family permit is required for travel and entry to the UK , therefore I should consider that I need to EEA Family Permit even if for touristic trip with my partner. How did the English language come to this?       The play was awful.     Is the complete opposite of     The play was awesome.   But if you break it down to awe followed by ful or some, it doesn't make sense at all. Can someone shed a light on this?  Is there a rule to this, or is it one of those things you need to just memorize? Why is filling a balloon from your mouth much harder initially? Why is it that when you first fill up a balloon, it's hard to get air through, but after inflating it a bit, it becomes much easier to further inflate the balloon? Why are PCA eigenvectors orthogonal and what is the relation to the PCA scores being uncorrelated? I'm reading up on PCA, and I'm understanding most of what's going on in terms of the derivation apart from the assumption that eigenvectors need to be orthogonal and how it relates to the projections (PCA scores) being uncorrelated? I have two explanations provided below which use a link between orthogonality and correlation but fail to really explain it: , .  In the second picture it says that the condition $a_{2}^{T}a_{1}=0$  is imposed to ensure that the projection $y_{2}=Xa_2$ will be uncorrelated with $y_{1}=Xa_1$. Can someone provide an example to show why orthogonal vectors ensure uncorrelated variables?  What would happen in PCA if I chose vectors which are not orthogonal; is this even possible? I have read elsewhere that orthogonality is just a by-product of the covariance matrix being symmetric which would suggest that it's not possible to have non pairwise orthogonal eigenvectors. However in the first picture in search of the most 'suitable' matrix it almost seems as we are choosing $p_{1},\ldots,p_{m}$ to be orthogonal to give us a more convenient matrix $\textbf{P}$ one which has nice properties.  I've read other posts on this topic but have been unsatisfied with incorporation of the intuition with uncorrelated variables. I really appreciate any help in understanding this confusion!! I am new to Ubuntu and want to install VMWare Player. What is the step by step procedure to install that? What is the difference between "var=${var:-word}" and "var=${var:=word}"? Proving $\sum_{k=1}^n k k!=(n+1)!-1$ Prove: $\displaystyle\sum_{k=1}^n k k!=(n+1)!-1$ (preferably combinatorially)   It's pretty easy to think of a story for the RHS: arrange $n+1$ people in a row and remove the the option of everyone arranged to height from shortest to highest, but it doesn't hold up for the LHS.   Alternatively, trying to visualize the LHS, I noticed that it's like a right angle tetrahedra:  1  2!+2!  3!+3!+3!  ...  But it doesn't help to see a connection to the RHS.  Note: no integrals or gamma function nor use of other identities without proving them nor generating functions. How do I install the latest version of Matlab? When I tried to install Matlab using the Software Center, it prompted me for the Location of MATLAB installation(s). Since I am trying to install it, I don't know what to do. Why doesn't calling a Python string method do anything unless you assign its output? Cannot find Background Images feature in Blender 2.8 Why is $\alpha \rightarrow \forall x(\alpha)$ not generally correct in first-order logic? Why is $\alpha \rightarrow \forall x(\alpha)$ not generally correct in first-order logic?  i.e., when there are free occurrences of $x$ in $\alpha$, and, on the same point, why is the formula scheme correct when there are no free occurrences of $x$ in $\alpha$? Isn't the word "experience" wrongly used in this context? Friend: Have you ever flirted with a female cop?      Me: Nope.      Friend: I have done that experience.   I think experience is the wrong word here. What else should he have said? I can show this best by a picture:    This cross also shows when I export it as raster or pdf. What is it and how can I get rid of it?  I am using Qgis 2.4 and the map was done with the help of the Grass plugin AniMove on Linux Mint.