Thanks - good to know!
I like Skittles and M&Ms (but not at the same time), and I just shovel ‘em in - no sorting or arranging.
I don’t eat Trix or Pez. I think the supposedly-chocolate-covered dark brown M&M’s do taste a little different than the other colors; but I think the other colors all taste the same.
Didn’t vote.
I haven’t eaten trix in years. I voted they taste the same, but now i wonder if that’s true.
Funnily, I managed to get all the liquid into that tiny hole without spilling any.
I feel like the different colors of M&Ms taste different when I’m looking at them, but I’m well aware that if I couldn’t see them, they would all taste the same.
Somewhere around 1995, I stopped buying single packs of m&m’s. I still don’t eat blue m&m’s, and give them to my husband, who eats m&m’s one by one and doesn’t care about the color. We tend to only eat plain m&m’s, unless someone gives us a special flavor. The peanuts in the peanut m&m’s tend to be stale. Ick.
Before then, I would empty the single serving bag on the table. Sort by color. Eat the m&m’s by color, starting with the least common color, so the dark brown m&m’s were the last one to be eaten.
If a poll doesn’t have my favored choice, I might vote, I might not. Depends.
Perhaps we should just rename MPSlMS “Other” and put it into every poll.
Most of the cites I found say that “a historic…” is correct, and “an historic…” is “an unnecessary affectation” or an old-fashioned relic of the time when the “h” in “historic” wasn’t pronounced in some English dialects.
So I would normally say “a historic…”
Still, “an historic…” sounds less wrong than “an history…,” probably because “history” has the accent on the first syllable, which makes the “h” sound more prominent.
I haven’t had an abortion but if I were to get pregnant now at almost 50, I’d do whatever I had to to get to a state where abortions are legal. I am NOT in any shape able to raise more than the two I have and there are far too many kids in the foster system already. But that’s me. I don’t presume to answer for anyone else.
I’m a man. I have impregnated a woman who then had an abortion. I was there. I’ve also accompanied two friends for abortions which were not my spawn.
I pronounce the “h” in “historic”; so I say “a historic.” I’d expect those who don’t pronounce the “h” to say “an”.
I have not had an abortion. However, the one time I thought I was unintentionally pregnant, my immediate reaction was that I needed to find a clinic and try to schedule what was at the time being called a “menstrual extraction”; because by that time I’d learned enough about the man I was dating to realize that there was no way I wanted to have a child with him.
It turned out that my period was late only because I’d changed birth control pill brands which threw their lovely clockwork schedule off, so I didn’t need to try to do anything about it. However – and I say this as somebody who wound up childless – it would have been the right decision. That was not the right man for me, or possibly anybody, to have a child with. (And no, he didn’t want me to continue a pregnancy either. But that wasn’t the only issue.)
When I visited Alcatraz, it struck me that the beautiful view of the San Francisco skyline from the exercise yard was possibly the cruelest aspect of being incarcerated there. To be able to see something like that, so close by, that you can never get to, must have been torturous.
Looking at woods may not be quite as bad as that, but I’ll still take the TV. I can at least have some entertainment to help pass my miserable life, and keep up with news of the outside world.
There are complicated rules, which i can’t produce, but which I’ve seen, for when it’s “an h***” and when it’s “a h***”. I think it probably depends on how strongly voiced the h is. Anyway, I often (probably not always) say “an historic event” but i always say “a history”. None of the answers fit, because it’s not really “maybe”, it’s “maybe for these phrases, and never for those”.
I will always write “a historic.” I might say “an historic.”
My mother was 33 my father was 40 when I was born. I voted “30s” because it doesn’t have to be perfect.
My parents are less than 10 years apart in age, but they’re far enough apart that my mom was in her late 20s and dad was in his mid 30s when I was born, so that was the option I picked.
My parents were both in their 20s when I was born. I was born prematurely, just 7 months after the wedding. Good thing, as I was a huge baby.
Parents’ ages: when I was born, my mother was 24, while my father was 31. I picked “20s” in the poll, because my dad was closer to his 20s than my mom was to her 30s.
Fuel type: 87 octane, because that’s what my Mustang is rated for. 10% ethanol, because I live in suburban Chicago, where the state has long mandated that gasoline be blended with ethanol as a tactic for reducing smog – it’s difficult, if not impossible, to find gasoline for sale in the area that’s not a 10% ethanol blend.
Imagine how big you would have been at full term.
I had a girlfriend who took the pill without interruption, because she preferred to not experience menstruation at all.
Alright, I changed my vote to “30s” for the parental age poll. I figure my mom was close enough to 30 when I was born that that’s the best fit.
Fuel grade: My Miata recommends at least 91 octane, so that’s what I use. That also happens to be the highest octane you can get in California.