Space.com: Rare colorful lightning caught on camera by ISS astronaut. 'OK, this is kind of out there'
Rare colorful lightning caught on camera by ISS astronaut. 'OK, this is kind of out there'
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In the following usage, which is the correct form for the superlative of the adjective "rare"? "the rarest on Earth" or "the most rare on Earth"?
She’s found: an antique piece of serving ware–I think it was a pie slicer or cheese knife that was the rarest part of a set, rare pyrex dishes, an original Holly Hobbie doll, a jar of buttons that turned out to be all vintage designer buttons, a baggie with dozens of all original monopoly pieces, a weird mid-century lamp that we bought for ...
Frequency and Register Note that all of these amnio‑ terms were specialist vocabulary found initially only in scientific and technical use. This remains largely true to this day, although amniotic fluid is rather less uncommon than most of the others are. Indeed the earliest-occurring term, amnios, the OED assigns to its frequency band 2, its second to rarest classification. That means it ...
In contrast, /ʒ/ is the rarest consonant phoneme in the language at all, occurring only in (mainly French) loan words, and notably it is almost entirely absent at the beginning of words.