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Loudmouth,

Why did you choose to write your last post in (nearly) all caps?

Forum Rule - 3:

"Do not "shout" (use capital letters excessively)."

.....

Regarding Monis, I still can't get over the fact this character was totally on the radar - and yet was still able, not only to get bail, but also to access a firearm, etc and carry out this atrocity.

"Asio agents were at every court hearing of the Sydney siege gunman in the year leading up to him taking 18 hostages at the Lindt cafe, an inquest has heard.

Officers from Australia’s spy agency watched Man Haron Monis walk free on bail after being charged with being an accessory to murder in December 2013 and then again when he was charged with sex offences in May 2014. When 37 further sexual and indecent assault offences were brought against him in October 2014 neither police nor the director of public prosecutions applied to have his bail revoked."

"Overseen by coroner Michael Barnes, the inquest heard from Detective Senior Constable Melanie Staples from the homicide squad on Wednesday. She said she was very upset when Monis was granted bail after being charged with being an accessory to murder.

She said she found out almost by accident before the siege that Asio agents had been at the hearings. A female officer from the agency mentioned it to Staples in an email."

http://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2015/aug/19/asio-agents-attended-all-court-dates-of-lindt-cafe-gunman-in-year-before-seige

Toni,

"//I suggest that you download one of the free spell checking programmes.//

That spelling of 'programme' is incorrect when talking about software. You're thinking of computer 'programs'.'

that spelling of 'programme' is acceptable British English as is 'program', which whilst being looked upon as an Americanism, is the English word that was in common use before the French fashion crept into the language; hence 'labour' and 'labor', 'doctour' was fashionable for a while but 'doctor' now prevails.

"I should take up this essay correcting lark
[you can if you possess the necessary qualifications].

Although I'm curious as to how the students get away with it - if they hand in an essay which is not entirely their own work because you've helped them with it, does't that constitute plagiarism?"

you seem to have a bit of difficulty with the term 'correcting'
I correct essays whilst marking them, (on a contract basis with the University), such corrections are part of the process of marking.

Yes, I thought Toni's post was a little, shall we say, pedantic.

It was obvious to me that Is Mise was marking essays...who hasn't received a marked essay with corrections?

Same with "programme" - "program" is the Americanisation.

As is the English/French "cheque" and the Americanised "check".

Our evolving language....

The operatic lyrics are correctly capitalised. There are many explanations as to how the belting voice quality is produced. Under a scope, the vocal folds visibly shorten and thicken, and they undulate along more of their vertical surface area than in head register when a smaller segment of their edge must undulate to produce sound.

One researcher, Jo Estill, has conducted research on the belting voice, and describes the belting voice as an extremely muscular and physical way of singing. When observing the vocal tract and torso of singers, while belting, Estill observed:

Minimal airflow (longer closed phase (70% or greater) than in any other type of phonation)
Maximum muscular engagement of the torso (in Estill Voice Training terminology this is known as Torso Control or Anchoring)
Engagement of muscles in the head and neck in order to stabilize the larynx) (in Estill Voice Training terminology this is known as Head and Neck Control or Anchoring)
A downwards tilt of the cricoid cartilage (an alternative option would be the thyroid tilting backwards. Observations show a larger CT space)
High positioning of the larynx
Maximum muscular effort of the extrinsic laryngeal muscles, minimum effort at the level of the true vocal folds.
Narrowing of the aryepiglottic sphincter (the "twanger").
An orchestra is at 800hertz but opera singing can be 3000hertz and so capital letters are lawful and appropriate for police hit-squads at maximum volume.

Poirot,

There is nothing curious about Monis being able to access a firearm whilst on bail, he either had the illegally modified prohibited firearm hidden away or he got it from a criminal.

The big question is, rightly, why he was on bail.