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The Effect Of A Name

posted by janrinok on Saturday April 12 2014, @12:07AM   
from the call-me-what-you-will dept.

lhsi writes:

The BBC has an article about how a name can affect someone throughout their life. One table shows the chance of attending Oxford with a given name, and a graph shows the downward trend of naming children one of the top 50 most popular names.

• Subject word changed, was affect, now effect Subject word changed, was affect, now effect (Score: 3, Informative) by tynin on Saturday April 12 2014, @02:46AM

  by tynin (2013) on Saturday April 12 2014, @02:46AM (#30409) Journal

  In case anyone is reading this topic and wondering, the word was changed after much grammar nazi'ing occurred.

  It would be nice if when edits occur, that a comment gets added to the body.

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• Re:Subject word changed, was affect, now effect (Score: 1) by GeminiDomino on Saturday April 12 2014, @02:54AM

  by GeminiDomino (661) on Saturday April 12 2014, @02:54AM (#30412)

  Odd. When writing a comment, the spelling is correct in the title, but when viewing the discussion (even after refreshing), it's still wrong.

  Kind of like the other day when "fucking" in NCommander's kept bouncing back between plain and obscured seemingly randomly...

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• Re:Subject word changed, was affect, now effect (Score: 2) by Non Sequor on Saturday April 12 2014, @03:21AM

  by Non Sequor (1005) on Saturday April 12 2014, @03:21AM (#30421) Journal

  Actually, both affect and effect are fitting:

  http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/affect [reference.com]

  Note the definitions as a noun.

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