It is not insignificant that someone named George Bush has been president or vice president for 20 of the last 28 years.
But how do you tell the story of a settlement too insignificant to have a name, and peasants whose only signatures are their scything styles?
"It is apparent that the person(s) behind the Satoshi name accumulated a not insignificant knowledge of applied cryptography," he wrote, adding that the design was "elegant" and required "considerable effort and dedication, and programming proficiency".
That he continued to sign his name in Greek may be insignificant, or maybe not.
The battle over what to name the business district seemed insignificant to many outsiders, but it quickly mushroomed into an international controversy.
Justice Kennedy noted that "answering a request to disclose a name is likely to be so insignificant in the scheme of things as to be incriminating only in unusual circumstances".
Another macrophile, who asked that I not use his name, told me, "I like to feel insignificant.
Mr. Connell, who is particularly interested in dark-leaf types, sells treats like White Hallelujah, with blossoms as pale as its name suggests, and the exquisitely feathery Woodridge, which makes up for insignificant flowers with leaves as lacy as ferns.
Now, it wasn't all roses and sunshine for Facebook: Users were more likely to call people names and be vulgar, though vulgarity appears to be statistically insignificant.
Catherine, named Sophia until she converted from Lutheranism to Orthodoxy, was an insignificant 18th-century German girl who rose to become empress of Russia.
