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This Wikipedia article gives this explanation for the origin of the word gee-gee: The Chester Racecourse site was home to the famous and bloody Goteddsday football match. The game was very violent and, in 1533, banned by the city, to be replaced in 1539 by horse racing. The first recorded race was held on with the consent of the Mayor Henry Gee, whose name led to the use of ...

For homework problem #53, the question asks to find the final temperature of the solution and the solutions manual says that the enthalpy of reaction = -153.89 + 2 (-167.16) - 2 (-167.16). I'm confused where they got these numbers. I looked up the enthalpy of formation of zinc and HCl and these weren't the same numbers so I'm confused. Also, where do they get 800 g? Is this because the density ...

For why' can be idiomatic in certain contexts, but it sounds rather old-fashioned. Googling 'for why' (in quotes) I discovered that there was a single word 'forwhy' in Middle English.

7 There actually does seem to be an explanation for the different spellings of speak and speech, and it even covers why speech would have variant spellings with <ea>. The ancestors of these words had different vowels in Proto-Germanic.