>>>>>>>>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.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>Pardon the uninitiated, semi-what? Semicircle, semicolon, semiprecious stone, semiquaver, semitone, semiconductor...?
>>>>>>
>>>>>>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.
>>>>
>>>>But 'semi' can mean 'partial' - not just 'half'
>>>>
>>>>To comply with the latter meaning you would have to nail another house onto all currently 'semi-detached' ones :-}
>>>
>>>We call 'em duplexes around here :-)

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>>But then there's full- and half-duplex ;)
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>Around here - half a duplex is a detached home :-)

Everything's bigger in Texas.