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I was doing clean up in [[Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/December 15]]. It seems that the article can't go to the OTD of the main page since the date for "1994 – Netscape Navigator 1.0, the leading web browser in the 1990s, was first released" is not cited in the article. You can fix it and have it on the main page. Regards. --[[User:Mhhossein|<span style="font-family:Aharoni"><span style="color:#002E63">M</span><span style="color:#2E5894">h</span><span style="color:#318CE7">hossein</span></span>]] <sup>[[User talk:Mhhossein|<span style="color:#056608">'''talk'''</span>]]</sup> 19:00, 13 December 2017 (UTC)
== "all but" as "almost"? ==
I have made [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Netscape_Navigator&diff=prev&oldid=1121544379 this edit] - see the reason described in the edit summary.
Some people use "all but" instead of "almost", though the latter is much more common and logical. Maybe they think that "all but" is a stronger version of "almost". And indeed, the [https://www.ldoceonline.com/dictionary/all-but Longman dictionary] defines it as "'''almost completely'''", but the '''rest''' of the most prestigious dictionaries define it as "'''almost'''". So, probably the Longman is wrong. If last year I saw '''100''' pigeons in the park, and now I see only '''5''', then I can say '''"They almost disappeared"''', but what if if their number reduced to '''2'''? Should I say: '''"They all but disappeared"'''? [[Special:Contributions/85.193.215.210|85.193.215.210]] ([[User talk:85.193.215.210|talk]]) 02:49, 15 November 2022 (UTC)
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