>>>Just a thought - Just imagine if we still a 8" floppies and you had to order VS 2012 on them.
>>>It would cause a bit of a stir when a semi pulls up to make the delivery.
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>>Pardon the uninitiated, semi-what? Semicircle, semicolon, semiprecious stone, semiquaver, semitone, semiconductor...?
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>Semi-articulated (but I know you were kidding)

I have seriously omitted all that weren't nouns from the list, no kidding.

I just can't get over something so big being called half. And nobody really knowing what's the whole that it's half of.