A short site discussing that linguistic legend, complete with a list of spurious Inuit words, is at www.mendosa.com/snow.html.html
It had, Colangelo said, been a hard process to choose just 12, one made easier by the flurry of last-minute spurious withdrawals once word of the picks began to leak out.
I like spurious, black-is-white words, such as mortician, liquidate, tonsorial, demi-monde.
Increasing the number of simulations in an MCMC will produce a more accurate estimate (with less possibility of the outputs being distorted by outlying or extreme simulations), but will not result in spurious certainty (in other words, the posterior distribution will become smoother, but not narrower).
Breaking down the acronym that is its name gives a hint: Telecommunications Electronics Material Protected from Emanating Spurious Transmissions, the key word being "protected," of course.
To verify that these observations were not spurious results due to the specific words in this sample of Spanish words or to the source of Spanish words that was used, these analyses were repeated with another Spanish lexicon (a random sample of 19,340 words from the 86,061 Spanish words obtained from ftp.ox.ac.uk\pub\wordlists\), and the results were comparable.
"I hear the word vexatious and spurious bandied about but, to date, there have been 326 settled cases and the government has paid out £20m," he told Radio 4's Today programme.
Another spurious product generation mechanism is finite word length effects of the PAC output (amplitude) word.
As for the > symbol lurking above the logo of Accenture, the American management consultancy, words like "silly" and "spurious" seem mild.
In other words there may be spurious causality.
