This image was taken with my camera phone. While I am not an entymologist, I believe it is a male Cecropia Moth (Hyalophora cecropia). I placed a bottle cap near the moth, to give you some idea of scale; total wingspan for this moth is (roughly) just over five inches. This species of moth is the largest in North America, and since they only live about a week in their adult phase I set him free to do his mothly duty...that is, knock-up some female moths.
Note: Because I am not an entymologist, if you believe this is something else, let me know.
I discovered there is a limit to how long a document can be in Microsoft Word.
Apparently 32,766 pages. After that, it doesn't create new pages, simply making the final page grow longer and longer. This leaves my last page at, by my guess, over seven-feet-tall. It also shows me as being on page ****/**** (page **** of **** pages). The document file size is currently just over 16MB.
They couldn't have supported another 100 pages or so? I wonder if there's a technical reason behind that limitation.
Ice/Iced cream, iced coffee, ice milk, ice/iced tea, ice water, etc...
These and other combinations with ice[d] display some interesting changes currently in progress: if primary stress is on the first word, then we know we have a compound; if it’s on the second word, then we still have an adjective or noun adjunct modifying a noun.
Older Americans (for whom ice cream was once only an infrequent homemade Sunday novelty) may well recall when it was spelled iced cream, in full recognition, through the participial adjective iced, of both process and chief ingredient. But younger Americans, who know only the product and may never have seen a hand-cranked freezer or, for that matter, a cow, today would find the participial spelling (and the occasional hyphen) odd indeed. And the pronunciations reflect the difference. The dental suffix on iced is gone from everyone’s pronunciation, of course. But in some of the younger speakers the primary stress is on the first word—EIS-KREEM and EIS-kreem-KON—whereas older Americans may still say EIS-KREEM and eis-KREEM-KON.
Several such compounds or near-compounds are currently in divided usage for either or both pronunciation and spelling: EIS-TEE (ice tea) is usually stressed on tea, but the dental suffix that once was on the end of ice has disappeared from both pronunciation and spelling. Iced coffee, on the other hand, retains the participial dental suffix both in some speech and in nearly all spelling, probably because this beverage is a much more recent development than ice tea. Ice water usually lacks the dental suffix today and is usually stressed on the first element. Though some uses of it may not ever have had that d, ice[d] milk is clearly too new to be a compound: the stress is still on milk. Mash[ed] potatoes and handicap[ped] parking are two other examples.
Source: The Columbia Guide to Standard American English, by Kenneth G. Wilson. New York: Columbia University Press, 1993.
