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Publicly is certainly more common, but publically is a logical alternative, mentioned in the OED with half a dozen citations from 1727 to 1998, so it can't really be called a mistake. Though "publicly" is far more common than "publically", it is bucking the trend.
Not caring socially/publically about other people doesn't mean you do anything about it: you might just be 'independent', or 'insouciant' (don't care about situations others would find troubling). 'Antisocial' covers the acts you described (or as test wrote 'discourteous' etc. would be applicable too, depending on how severe the acts are).
The switch happened in the second half of the 18th century. I ran a term frequency search in Eighteenth Century Collections Online, a database that features over 180,000 titles printed between 1701 and 1800.
You might be looking for the word "facetious". fa·ce·tious. adjective. 1. not meant to be taken seriously or literally: a facetious remark. 2. amusing; humorous. 3. lacking serious intent; concerned with something nonessential, amusing, or frivolous: a facetious person. from reference.com. Share.
Pearson's Law: "That which is measured improves. That which is measured and reported improves exponentially." - Karl Pearson. "When performance is measured, performance improves. When performance is measured and reported back, the rate of improvement accelerates." - Thomas S. Monson.
10. Your two examples are easy. If you add 'ly' to a word, you add one 'l'. If there was an 'l' already on the word, this results in two 'l's. If there were two 'll's on the word already, you don't triple the 'l', but just add 'y'. (quick → quickly, real → really, full → fully, medical → medically, easy → easily, brave → bravely ...
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6. "Vice versa" is surely correct, see e.g. Merriam-Webster. Wiktionary suggests that you could write "vice versâ" if you wanted to expressly mark the ablative case, and they even provide a quote, but that is actually the first time I see that spelling in an English context (we don't have the ablative case, after all).
3. First, councilor and councillor are exactly the same word under two variant spellings, just like the names John and Jon. Second, it is not true that councilor “is the US spelling”. In point of fact, councillor is fully twice as common in print in the United States as councilor is according to this Google n-gram: Across the broader ...