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Sod's law, a British culture axiom, states that "if something can go wrong, it will". The law sometimes has a corollary: that the misfortune will happen at "the worst possible time" (Finagle's law). The term is commonly used in the United Kingdom (while in many parts of North America the phrase "Murphy's law" is more popular). [1]
Murphy's law [a] is an adage or epigram that is typically stated as: "Anything that can go wrong will go wrong.".. Though similar statements and concepts have been made over the course of history, the law itself was coined by, and named after, American aerospace engineer Edward A. Murphy Jr.; its exact origins are debated, but it is generally agreed it originated from Murphy and his team ...
In resilience engineering, successes (things that go right) and failures (things that go wrong) are seen as having the same basis, namely human performance variability. A specific account of that is the efficiency–thoroughness trade-off principle , [ 18 ] which can be found on all levels of human activity, in individuals as well as in groups.
Before jumping into the hints and solutions for the Thursday, Jan. 23 puzzle, though, let’s go over the basics of Wordle. Wordle is a word puzzle that gives players six chances to guess a five ...
World Gone Wrong is the twenty-ninth studio album by American singer-songwriter Bob Dylan, released on October 26, 1993, by Columbia Records. It was Dylan's second consecutive collection of only traditional folk songs , performed acoustically with guitar and harmonica .
Image credits: Kitcat1987 #4. Laundry. I had always been taught that you need to wash a shirt, pants, or whatever else after wearing it only once. So I have been doing this for years and years.
gone and went. Gone is the past participle of go. Went is the simple past tense of go. [51] [52] Non-standard: Looking back on it, they should have went No. 1 in their respective drafts. [53] Non-standard: She had previously underwent a surgical procedure to remove an abscess discovered during a recent ultrasound. [54]
Semantic satiation is a psychological phenomenon in which repetition causes a word or phrase to temporarily lose meaning for the listener, [1] who then perceives the speech as repeated meaningless sounds. Extended inspection or analysis (staring at the word or phrase for a long time) in place of repetition also produces the same effect.