I owned 2 roundies from new. A '69 2002 and a -70 2002A. But nobody called them by the series back then that I can remember. And I had a 09 series also, a '67 2000CS. I had to look that one up.
My E34 535i was my favorite car.
Dennis
I was taught that rule in high school in the 1980s.
But they should have named it the other way around. DEFCON-1 is upper limited, there isn’t anything beyond it.
"Holy crap! The 5th fleet has been blown out of the water, DC is just a smoking hole in the ground, the Rockies have been flattened and I can see 300 incoming nukes on my screen! And you give me DEFCON-1? I want DEFCON freakin’ 100!!! "
Dennis
Professional writers who follow the Chicago Manual of Style or the AP Stylebook?
Nevertheless, I am pleased to see that this rule (no scare quotes needed) is not so rigid that I need to get annoyed seeing “insure” for “ensure” anymore.
As I am one who is firmly in the “they as gender-neutral you” camp, I am not one to be so critical of usage. I’ll let the “insure” folks do their thing.
You have removed a burden I have been carrying for decades!
Why do people get a bug up their ass about seagulls but not say, songbird or hawk or eagle? There isn’t a bird named any of those either, yet people don’t go around saying “actually, it a yellow-throated warbler. there’s no such thing as a songbird.”
I save my irritation for people who think rabbits and ferrets are rodents.
Less or fewer what? You need quotes around “less” and “fewer” to indicate that you’re referencing the words themselves rather than using them as adjectives. Consider yourself corrected. Now I feel like a jerk. 
The difference is that gulls are found in, say, Kansas. So every time you say “seagull” for “gull,” you’re reinforcing (for some within your earshot) the mistaken notion (held by many) that gulls are only found near the sea.
There is no species of bird that, in modern English vernacular, has a common name containing the word “seagull”. There are plenty containing the word warbler, hawk and eagle. Songbirds are an informal sub-category of birds, but seagulls are not a category of gulls, since people who use the term seagulls use it for all gulls…
Tow the line. It’s toe the line. Get it right, dammit.
Commonly misspelled names of famous people.
It’s Gandhi, not Ghandi! It’s Buddha, not Buddah! It’s Cal Ripken, Jr., not Ripkin!
Tell it to Captain Queeg! 
I’ll rant along with you!!! :mad:
And “laying” instead of “lying”, “loathe” instead of “loath”. Grrr!
‘Seagull’ is an English word that came into use before English-speaking people ever arrived in Kansas. The word would have been coined by people whose encounters with gulls would typically have been in coastal contexts, n England. If you don’t like the word, stop using it, but it actually works fine here.
People get into fits over “seagull”???
Wow.
So there isn’t one species. So people generally apply it to multiple species. Who cares? It is a very useful term. Very, very few people know all the exact species by heart.
People call tomatoes a vegetable all the time. They’re wrong, but somehow almost all of use live with it without going apoplectic.
And yet you anti-“seagull” people are fine with the red-breasted American bird being called a “robin”.
Well on that note…
Metrologists never use the term “accuracy” (e.g. “this instrument is 99.99% accurate”) when talking about measurement data. They use the term “uncertainty” (e.g. “this instrument has an uncertainty of 0.01% of reading”). So as a former metrologist, it drives me a bit batty when I hear a coworker say, “This instrument is very accurate.” Instead they should say, “This instrument has very low uncertainty.”
I don’t see a problem with calling Bison “buffalo,” which is a paraphyletic term anyway. Bison are at least as closely related to Bubalus water buffalo, as Bubalus are to Syncerus Cape buffalo, for example.
Obviously this would be wrong regardless.
It’s weird. I don’t recall ever seeing any ornithologist ever get bent up about the name ‘Herring Gull’, even though their diet is very varied.
BTW, tomatoes are both a fruit, and vegetable (in fact most fruits are vegetables, except the fruiting bodies of fungi, which are not members of the vegetable kingdom.
People who ask “can you borrow me 5 bucks” rather than asking if I’ll loan them 5 bucks. (either way the answer is no! 
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Saying “I could care less” when you mean “I couldn’t care less”.
“Is the glass half empty or is it half full?” Neither, it’s both. The hidden fact in that false dilemma is the glass is irrelevant as it’s too damn big.
“We only use 10% of our brain.”*
Well, perhaps this election is working to prove this? 
And there’s no second “n” in “pundit”; no such word as “pundint”.