Jimmy Wales wrote:
My daughter recently asked Danny why the word 'receipt' has a 'p' in it. Well, he gave a decent answer but I think he made it up out of thin air. That's the best that most of us can do, even very well educated and smart people.
The irony with such situations arises when you answer "I don't know", and somebody still insists on an answer. So you just oblige them with a made-up answer. Those insisting on an answer are not just children.
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