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It really does, even though I generally tend to favor thorium-cycle power generation.

Also, why is "fluoride" such a hard word to spell?



the "uo" letter sequence is pretty rare. from the latest collins wordlist:

$ grep UO ~/CSW15.txt | wc -l 603

$ grep OU ~/CSW15.txt | wc -l 12564

the most common are QUO- and -UOUS words, plus a handful of _UOS words like "virtuoso"; removing those we are left with a handful of root words:

FLUOR [as noted], BUOY [which americans pronounce "booee" and everyone else "boy", so the letter sequence even leads to dialect pronunciation differences!], DUO, LANGUOR [i've seen this misspelt a lot too], PLUOT, SKEUOMORPH, and a handful of scientific words like GLUON and VACUO-, and words borrowed from other languages like EUONYM and OCTUOR.


It's those "chemtrails" messing with your mind




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