(Not so)Imaginary friend
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understandinguncertainty.org was produced by the Winton programme for the public understanding of risk based in the Statistical Laboratory in the University of Cambridge. The aim was to help improve the way that uncertainty and risk are discussed in society, and show how probability and statistics can be both useful and entertaining.
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About 5 years ago my daughter who was then two had (like many children) an imaginary friend called 'Cully'. We double-checked the name as neither my wife nor I had come across it before and certainly knew no one of that name and could not think where our daughter (Lydia) had found it. Anyway strange as it was we forgot all about it and Cully eventually (according to our daughter) suddenly died!
Then about a year ago I was reading 'The Garden' magazine and for the first time ever came across the name 'Cully' used as a Cultivar or named variety of Silver Birch.Intrigued I then Googled the name (we didn't have internet 5 years ago) and found that the name is slang (of unknown origin) for 'pal' or 'friend'.
Coincidence or just spooky!
Date submitted:Sun, 15 Jan 2012 21:04:55 +0000Coincidence ID:4894
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