We both work in very precarious fields, so we aim at 12 months of expenses plus cash on hand equal to the single largest machine/system in the house (maybe it's the heat pump, air conditioner, etc for you). I'm happier when we have 18 months in reserve.

I'm tearing down a plaster and lath ceiling hung from beams to replace with sawn boards sitting on top of the beams. Not only are board and beam ceilings nicer to look at, I gain an attic floor. The boards are sawn from trees cut from the communal forest two years ago.

Maybe find a marble and stone dealer who does kitchen installs and ask them?

You might need another muffin. You're a little hangry.

People are fixated on common usage because it's common, and therefore, by definition, most likely to be unambiguously understood by the largest number of speakers.

The rest of this is in the spirit of modern linguistic nerdiness:

If there is a common word, it should be preferred over uncommon words simply for ease of communication. It is much more common in the English speaking world to say "a tour bus" for a bus that goes around a city near the sights to be seen, and while "a touristic bus" might be a perfectly acceptable synonym, it is less common.

The same holds for "salubrious". While by dictionary standards it might be the best option, it isn't that common, and most people would say "healthiness" or "wholesomeness" for salubridad and "sanitariness" or "healthfulness" for sanidad.

Source: USian immigrant to Spain married to a filología inglesa / translator

Especially the East.

Why? Specifically, with numbers.

https://github.com/ValdikSS/GoodbyeDPI

Currently reading The Mushroom at the End of the World by Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing. Excellent both as ethnography and as multivalent critique of capitalism.

That's what the "Frontpage" is

It would have to be The Song of Hiawatha by Longfellow, even if he is currently so far out of fashion as to be essentially forgotten.

For extra credit, read any comprehensive critical break down of that national epic as well. Few things are as instructive as seeing national myths for the myths that they are.