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Connections #571 2025-01-02 (aussie.zone)
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[–] 5 points 2 years ago* (3 children)

I thought yellow had to do something about what you find in a shop....

BlueTwelve donuts? Okay but I think that is mostly an american thing. Just like juror and inch. Inch can be forgiven but the other 2 not so much.

The only purple one I associate with dog would be tags.

I really should stop playing connections when I am under the weather.

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  • [–] [S] 2 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    spoilerDoughnut didn’t occur to me at first, but when I found out clock was wrong it was fairly obvious doughnut would be right since it’s a bread-y product and bread is famously sold by the dozen (hence the phrase "baker’s dozen").

    Inches in a foot is imperial units, which I’ve never used, but unlike most of the other imperial measures, it’s a very basic bit of trivial knowledge to know there are 12. It’s something I would expect people to know even if they don’t know how many yards in a mile or ounces in a pound.

    12 jurors is not unique to the US. It’s what we use here in Australia too, and quick googling tells me so does the UK, Canada, NZ, and Ireland, 100% of the countries I tried searching. It seems to be the accepted standard in legal systems based in the system of Common Law.

    Dog days I know of as "the dog days of summer", a phrase I would never actually use myself but which I believe refers to the hottest and most humid part of summer. Dog paddle I’m guessing is an American term for what I would call doggy paddle; an unskilled form of swimming with your head above water and legs down. Dog tired is an expression that, again, I wouldn’t really use myself, but it just means "very tired".

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Spoils of warYeah as I said I can excuse the inches because that is fairly common knowledge. But honestly I don't recall ever buying something by an actual dozen in a bakery.

    JurorsAfaik this is how jury duty works where I live so yeah...

    Sodniki porotniki v kazenskem postopku

Kadar gre za kazniva dejanja, za katera je zagrožena kazen zapora do 15 let, je senat sestavljen iz treh članov, in sicer enega poklicnega sodnika in dveh sodnikov porotnikov.

Kadar gre za težja kazniva dejanja, za katera je zagrožena kazen zapora 15 let in več, pa sodi veliki senat, ki ga sestavlja pet članov, in sicer dva poklicna sodnika in trije sodniki porotniki.

    Judges and jurors in criminal proceedings

 In the case of crimes punishable by imprisonment of up to 15 years, the panel consists of three members, namely one professional judge and two lay judges.

 When it comes to more serious crimes, which are punishable by a prison sentence of 15 years or more, the trial is conducted by a grand panel consisting of five members, namely two professional judges and three lay judges.

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  • [–] [S] 2 points 2 years ago

    Yeah there's a reason I specifically said in Common Law jurisdictions. The nature of the law is too different in Civil Law to be able to compare the two. (I actually looked up Slovenian law just in case it was a common law system, but didn't go further once I learnt it was not.)

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