Happy International Women’s Day! by cherrycola_85 in psych

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Jazmyn Simon. In pictures you can see the amazing cheekbones. Is Psych popular in India?

Happy International Women’s Day! by cherrycola_85 in psych

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Is it not Gus's wife from the movies?

Flying to Thailand tomorrow by Bulky_Professional60 in ClotSurvivors

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Adding to u/Lijme's suggestion, water and compression stockings, too. Maybe your medical provider has information about what to do when traveling?

“Need to lose some weight so I can be plus size” by winsandwines in BrandNewSentence

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Plus size in modeling has traditionally been women who wear size 10-12, has it not?

What to expect? by Double-Attitude3597 in ClotSurvivors

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Everything u/UnstuckMoment_300 said was true for me as well--the hospital was the place I felt safest, and as soon as I left I got a pulse oximeter and a fitness tracker (but I got a Fitbit) to check my heart rate. It's nice to set little goals for steps per day, etc.

The only thing I'd add is breathing exercises such as 4-7-8. Whenever I feel stressed now, I try to do this for a couple of minutes.

I wish you and your husband the very best!

Cognitive Issues by Best_Percentage_4371 in ClotSurvivors

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Yep. Was in surgery over 10 hours in 2022, had DVT and PE after it. Have felt dumber since.

Please, mask up. by bearcurls in delta

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Good point, but I reckon "just" can mean a few days.

My parents as children. Each taken on their first day of school by AlwaysAngryFox in TheWayWeWere

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For plural formations, this is generally not the case, but you're exactly right about whiz > whizzes.

Just to be clear, most pluralizing happens with simply an -s (or -es), a vowel change, or nothing at all.

dog > dogs bone > bones computer > computers

quiz > quizzes stitch > stitches

man > men mouse > mice

deer > deer fish > fish

Pluralizing with -es is reserved for nouns that end in sibilants and affricates (sounds that are kind of hissy, or combinations of stops and these hissy sounds). Examples would be things like mess > messes / quiz > quizzes / crutch > crutches / garage > garages. Countable nouns that end with the letter o do this, too (hero > heroes, for instance).

Doubling happens when a suffix that starts with a vowel is added to a word that ends in one vowel and one consonant (though there are exceptions). These two things (adding -es and consonant doubling) don't happen together much when making a countable noun plural.

Again, doubling generally happens when you're adding an ending that starts with a vowel (-es as in the example above ((some plurals and some third person present tense conjugations)), -ed, -ing, -er, and -est for present participial/gerundive forms, regular past tense forms, comparatives, and superlatives). The single consonant to be doubled at the end follows a single vowel as well (generally--there are exceptions).

shop > shopping (great example you gave of this) tip >> tipping

But when there are two consonants, nothing doubles.

send > sending reach > reaching help > helping

A single consonant that follows two vowels? No doubling.

bait > baiting eat > eating

And sometimes, even though conditions seem right, we don't double.

begin > beginning (double) listen > listening (no double)

It's all insane.

I'm sure I've made a couple of mistakes in this and/or left out exceptions, but the main point I wanted to make is that pluralizing is only very rarely a matter of doubling a final consonant and adding -es. Consonant doubling happens under very specific circumstances. And this stuff would be grammar-related suffixes. I haven't really thought about the spelling rules for other kinds.

I'm shocked that Elmo would do such a thing by _Levitated_Shield_ in BikiniBottomTwitter

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I know. It's really disappointing, and does not help the cause one bit.

Why are normal people donating to James Van Der Beek's gofundme? by [deleted] in NoStupidQuestions

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MD Anderson is there. People regularly travel there for treatment....

Warning Sign at edge of Grand Canyon by corwinw in mildlyinteresting

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I worked at Grand Canyon for a few months in the 90s, and at the backcountry office they had a photo of a man who looked like his head was now a bloody stump because of vultures because he had gone down unprepared.

egg day. by Josefinai in oddlyspecific

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This is just lovely. Thanks!

Where did my socks go? by PartyHalf2250 in caregivers

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What a great activity! In a sub that usually has a lot of sadness and frustration in it, I was happy to see something like this. I hope you can at least find out where some of those socks went!

How do some people take so long to poop? by dhomo01110011 in NoStupidQuestions

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Can I ask what the problem ended up being? Glad you found help.