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You need to say which planet you come from, OP's orders :)
– Mari-Lou A
Commented May 29, 2015 at 11:30
Wow, there was a really big palaver in the 1660s! Must have been the Great Fire of London.
– benshepherd
Commented May 29, 2015 at 11:56
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Must take Google's ngrams with a few grains of salt. I've found many egregious errors in the dating (and OCR'ing) of texts.
– TimR
Commented May 29, 2015 at 12:11
i'm from approximately that location as well.
– Erich
Commented May 29, 2015 at 12:16
Yeah, I never took it to mean arguing, just meaningless jaw flapping.
– Hot Licks
Commented May 29, 2015 at 12:33

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create code fences with backticks ` or tildes ~
```
like so
```
add language identifier to highlight code
```python
def function(foo):
print(foo)
```
put returns between paragraphs
for linebreak add 2 spaces at end
_italic_ or **bold**
quote by placing > at start of line
to make links (use https whenever possible)
<https://example.com>
[example](https://example.com)
<a href="https://example.com">example</a>

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