MeTa post: Why the gender discrepancy?

If you think men seriously suffer more from violence than women do, then you clearly need to educate yourself better.
Actually the crime statistics are pretty clear on this. " Males experienced higher victimization rates than females for all types of violent crime except rape/sexual assault. According to the FBI's Uniform Crime Reports, most murder victims were male, 79% in 2005.

But this is not quite the... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by tallus at 3:14 AM on May 30, 2008

MeTa post: etymology questions OK?

The OED (and more) is available for free, online, if you are a member of just about any UK library. A whole bunch of them got together in a consortium and purchased bulk access. This rocked my world when I found out, so much so that I ran down the library and confused all the local librarians who had no idea it was happening.

Granted, this is only a going to help a subsection of people here, but the rest of you can go to your local library and drop heavy handed hints... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by tallus at 9:06 AM on January 10, 2008