Funny, because I’ve heard of places that have both dumps and landfills, and you’d take trash to the dump like the Lone Ranger, where it can be recycled/repurposed/repaired, but take garbage to the landfill.
Doubt I’m alone on this one, but when I’m running a 5k (or its variations) and someone wears the race shirt they got in their packet DURING the race.
No, you can’t wear the shirt during the race because you haven’t completed it yet. Once you’re done with the race THEN you can wear it.
Exceptions are for the same race in a previous year or a previous race in a series (Say you wear the 10k shirt on the day of the half marathon for a challenge).
Clearly he meant vowel sound, unless you think the “h” in honor is a vowel or the “u” in unicorn is a consonant.
People use “an” with ‘history’?
Some people trying to sound smarter than they really are do tend to do this. I don’t find it objectionable in accents where you don’t aspirate the “h” in those words, so it sound like “an 'istorical,” but, on NPR especially, I often hear “an Historical,” and it drives me batty, too.
Given the answers in this thread so far, it does seem to be dialectal. Here we don’t make a distinction. We use them absolutely interchangeably.
Those follow the rule. The rule is not whether the word starts with a written consonant or letter; it’s whether it is sounded as a consonant or vowel. It’s very straightforward and the only exception I could find is one that IMHO people who should know better use “an” before “historical” in an archaic construction.
I’ve seen it just like pkbites had mentioned, actually once since I first replied here. There really are a lot of dumb dumbs out there. I never thought people were idiotic enough to steal them either. I do the aforementioned thing with scraping the old ones off and using scotch tape and a razor to make it impossible to steal. Extra minute or two for extra peace of mind.
I’m willing to bet large quantities of something that the same people who do put the plate stickers in incorrect places are the same that have about 10 city stickers on their windows.
People eating those big sushi rolls and pouring soy sauce (from those fish shaped bottles where only a few drops come out) on it after every bite.
Such a small thing and I have no reason to be bothered. But I am…
Speaking of Israel, the ‘a’ comes before the ‘e’. Where did the “Is-ree-il” pronunciation come from? I can’t stand arguments about Israel purely because that pronunciation annoys me.
So, given that all of Europe and Latin America (at the very least, and excluding US-oriented resorts) agrees with you, what makes this a Pet Peeve only you have? 
I was mainly trying to avoid going into an explanation on seseo, but I did in fact have a (ESL) coworker who would randomly turn any English written “o”, “u” or “ou” into “oo”, “oo” into “ooo”. Be grateful you didn’t have to read her emails. Actually, I think she never wrote “yoo” for “you” (apparently that one had taken hold), but she would write “woold” instead of “would”, “boook” our travels and request “meeting minootes”. Take into account that for someone who’s ESL the distinctions between English vowels can be between blurry and WTF; this woman was particularly bad at languages. She thought her English was perfect because “I lived in the US for a year!” (it had been six months) when she actually had the worst accent of a team which included people that had never set foot in an English-speaking country. One of my coworkers would sometimes refer to her as “Miz Mooooo”.
Additionally the items one buys can be deceiving to the cashier. Once I was at the register with a bounty of paper products (plates, napkins, etc) and plastic cutlery. The clerk cheerily asked if I was having a picnic.
To which I replied, “No - a funeral.”
Best stick to the weather.
“Trash” is anything that doesn’t have food remains on it. “Garbage” is anything with food remains.
Ooh, I hate this too.
I HATE the word “Ultimate”, whether in commercials or otherwise, except when it’s obvious that it’s meant in “Last” sense. For example, I hate phrases like “The Ultimate driving machine.” Did you die testing it? I know it’s silly, but I hate that word.
Yeah she is always on the Howard Stern channel. I hate those commercials. Also the Boll and Branch commercials.
People who use an elevator in the morning and don’t send it back down to the ground floor upon exiting. Selfish pricks.
While this would be nice, I have never heard of this courtesy before. Seems like something only a minority of people would do in the first place.
It’s a pet peeve only I have. Totally works my tits and adds to my general air of mystery as a grouchy but unfailingly kind person.
Don’t even get me started on sorting the silverware…
Huh. What a good idea.
Really, it would be a simple matter to analyze where an elevator is most often called to at what time, and pre-program them to wait there. Perhaps this is already being done?
It’s to avoid a glottal stop.
Or rather, two glottal stops in a row.