binomials

* If I remember correctly, the ICZN prefers it if 'Mc' names are converted to 'mac' spellings when used in binomials.

Archive 2006-02-01 Darren Naish 2006

Wescott's note concerns itself only with idiomatic groups of three words or wordlike elements, but I believe such chains are an extension of what Malkiel calls binomials, or two-word groups.

VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol 1 No 2 1974

I know of teachers who teach their students how to multiply binomials in a rhyme scheme akin to Run DMC.

Jose Vilson: Does Hip-Hop Really Belong in the Classroom? Jose Vilson 2010

I know of teachers who teach their students how to multiply binomials in a rhyme scheme akin to Run DMC.

Jose Vilson: Does Hip-Hop Really Belong in the Classroom? Jose Vilson 2010

I know of teachers who teach their students how to multiply binomials in a rhyme scheme akin to Run DMC.

Jose Vilson: Does Hip-Hop Really Belong in the Classroom? Jose Vilson 2010

While I'd love to believe this popularity is due to my wonderful way with words and the overwhelming popularity of binomials, I suspect it has more to do with the fact that McKellar remains an attractive young woman whose legions of fans still think of her as the nice, cute "girl next door" she played in The Wonder Years all those years ago.

Archive 2008-01-01 2008

While I'd love to believe this popularity is due to my wonderful way with words and the overwhelming popularity of binomials, I suspect it has more to do with the fact that McKellar remains an attractive young woman whose legions of fans still think of her as the nice, cute "girl next door" she played in The Wonder Years all those years ago.

Probability, Permutations, and Danica McKellar 2008

The resulting curve—a histogram of the averages of the binomials heads/tails, yes/no coin flips—is bell-shaped.

The G.O.D. Experiments Gary E. Schwartz 2006

Beyond the minimum knowledge needful to interpret, or to confer, the “barbarous binomials” of scientific nomenclature, he was led on to read early scientific works published in Latin; and in philosophy, something of Spinoza; and later, massive tomes of the Fathers, whether to barb his exquisite irony in dissecting St. George Mivart's exposition of the orthodox Catholic view of Evolution, or in the course of his studies in Biblical criticism.

Thomas Henry Huxley Huxley, Leonard, 1860-1933 1920

Beyond the minimum knowledge needful to interpret, or to confer, the "barbarous binomials" of scientific nomenclature, he was led on to read early scientific works published in Latin; and in philosophy, something of Spinoza; and later, massive tomes of the Fathers, whether to barb his exquisite irony in dissecting St. George Mivart's exposition of the orthodox Catholic view of Evolution, or in the course of his studies in Biblical criticism.

Thomas Henry Huxley A Character Sketch Leonard Huxley 1896