# Things you're wrong about but will stick to anyway **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [April 17, 2015, 6:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-youre-wrong-about-but-will-stick-to-anyway/717893 "2015-04-17T06:04:08Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2015, 10:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-youre-wrong-about-but-will-stick-to-anyway/717893/41 "2015-04-17T22:28:47Z")
> [@stillownedbysetters](#): > > sheep, moose, etc. Words with the singular and plural being exactly the same. I’m willing to say ‘a herd of sheep, moose, etc.’, but I’ll be danged if I’m going to say ‘there are two sheep, moose, etc. by the road.’ So laugh if you must, I will continue to say ‘there are two sheeps in the field’ and ‘there are two mooses in the woods.’ I will laugh. That’s properly ‘there are two meese in the woods.’ One goose, two geese. One moose, two meese. It only makes sense. So there!! (where’s the neener neener smiley when you need it?) ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2015, 10:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-youre-wrong-about-but-will-stick-to-anyway/717893/42 "2015-04-17T22:59:36Z")
> [@GuanoLad](#): > > Pronouncing “gif” with a hard G. I do that too! ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2015, 11:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-youre-wrong-about-but-will-stick-to-anyway/717893/43 "2015-04-17T23:02:51Z")
> [@Shakes](#): > > “Ain’t” shouldn’t have an apostrophe in it. What the hell is it a contraction of? Why bother with it anyway? Anyone think that “dont” will be confused in context? or Aint? Skip the worthless apostrophe! ---
**Author:** ![Don\_t\_Panic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/don_t_panic/32/398_2.png) [@Don\_t\_Panic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Don_t_Panic)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2015, 11:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-youre-wrong-about-but-will-stick-to-anyway/717893/44 "2015-04-17T23:03:53Z")
> [@Edward\_The\_Head](#): > > Most people know what you’re talking about if you say that. I taught my daughters to say vagina. no one says vulva, and it sounds strange too. So I’m with you on this one. Do we even really have a good term for the totality of the female genitalia? I’m pretty sure that “vulva” just refers to the external parts, so that doesn’t cover all of it either. Men have “junk”. So I propose “girl junk”. Then again, I suppose that is too male-centric by implication. Let’s try a shortened version: “Gunk.” Nah. To be honest, I don’t really see either catching on. “Vulvagina”? ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2015, 11:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-youre-wrong-about-but-will-stick-to-anyway/717893/45 "2015-04-17T23:05:25Z")
> [@fachverwirrt](#): > > Do you put an apostrophe in “won’t”? I wont do it.😛 ---
**Author:** ![fachverwirrt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/94ad74/32.png) [@fachverwirrt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fachverwirrt)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2015, 11:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-youre-wrong-about-but-will-stick-to-anyway/717893/46 "2015-04-17T23:46:36Z")
> [@LSLGuy](#): > > I will laugh. That’s properly ‘there are two meese in the woods.’ > > One goose, two geese. > One moose, two meese. > > It only makes sense. So there!! (where’s the neener neener smiley when you need it?) One caboose, two cabeese. ---
**Author:** ![Don\_t\_Panic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/don_t_panic/32/398_2.png) [@Don\_t\_Panic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Don_t_Panic)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2015, 11:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-youre-wrong-about-but-will-stick-to-anyway/717893/47 "2015-04-17T23:58:24Z")
> [@fachverwirrt](#): > > One caboose, two cabeese. Two trapeze, one trapooze. \* He’d fly through the air with the greatest of ooze, That daring young man on the flying trapooze\* You know, like that. ---
**Author:** ![WhyNot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c77e96/32.png) [@WhyNot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WhyNot)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2015, 12:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-youre-wrong-about-but-will-stick-to-anyway/717893/48 "2015-04-18T00:48:38Z")
> [@Martian Bigfoot](#): > > Do we even really have a good term for the totality of the female genitalia? I’m pretty sure that “vulva” just refers to the external parts, so that doesn’t cover all of it either. > > Men have “junk”. So I propose “girl junk”. > > Then again, I suppose that is too male-centric by implication. Let’s try a shortened version: “Gunk.” > > Nah. To be honest, I don’t really see either catching on. > > “Vulvagina”? Genitals. For both genders. ---
**Author:** ![Don\_t\_Panic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/don_t_panic/32/398_2.png) [@Don\_t\_Panic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Don_t_Panic)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2015, 1:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-youre-wrong-about-but-will-stick-to-anyway/717893/49 "2015-04-18T01:06:37Z")
> [@WhyNot](#): > > Genitals. For both genders. Well, here we go again. You people, always with your entirely reasonable suggestions, and good points… 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Mithras](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f04885/32.png) [@Mithras](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mithras)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2015, 1:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-youre-wrong-about-but-will-stick-to-anyway/717893/50 "2015-04-18T01:32:24Z")
> [@Little\_Nemo](#): > > Europeans and soldiers are right. Dates should be written day, month, year not month, day, year. It’s 17 April 2015 not April 17, 2015. Dates should be written year, month, day. For ease of sorting… For as long as I can remember, I’ve referred to the middle light in a traffic signal as orange. It wasn’t until my wife asked me what the hell that was about that I realized that the rest of the world thought it was yellow. I think that some time between when I was in preschool and the early 21st century, everyone but me forgot their colors. It’s the only explanation that makes sense. ---
**Author:** ![Sefton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/5daacb/32.png) [@Sefton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sefton)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2015, 1:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-youre-wrong-about-but-will-stick-to-anyway/717893/51 "2015-04-18T01:38:17Z")
Synth-pop from the 1980s is excellent music. I’m never going to turn 40. ---
**Author:** ![Doug\_K](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b5ac83/32.png) [@Doug\_K](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doug_K)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2015, 2:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-youre-wrong-about-but-will-stick-to-anyway/717893/52 "2015-04-18T02:47:52Z")
> [@fachverwirrt](#): > > Well, really, it doesn’t matter what the first part of the contraction stands for; the apostrophe is just to stand in for the “o” in not, which is still there regardless of what the first part of the word is trying to be. > > Or just write “aint” and “wont”. Won’t bother me none; ain’t no thing. Wont means in the habit of (or habit when used as a noun). There’s a live recording of “Dead Man’s Curve” where he says “The Jag started to slide, as Jags are wont to do.” So wont is pretty much the exact opposite of won’t. ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2015, 3:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-youre-wrong-about-but-will-stick-to-anyway/717893/53 "2015-04-18T03:07:33Z")
> [@Doug\_K](#): > > Wont means in the habit of (or habit when used as a noun). There’s a live recording of “Dead Man’s Curve” where he says “The Jag started to slide, as Jags are wont to do.” > > So wont is pretty much the exact opposite of won’t. English is full of homonyms. It would be pretty hard to do a sentence where the reader would confuse 'wont" (will not) vs “wont” (in the habit of). ---
**Author:** ![Ambivalid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a5b964/32.png) [@Ambivalid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ambivalid)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2015, 6:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-youre-wrong-about-but-will-stick-to-anyway/717893/54 "2015-04-18T06:17:47Z")
.08-.15 BAC, for me, is _totally fine_ for operating motorized vehicles on public roads. Besides, I dont obey laws I find silly. I’m a moral objector. 🙂 Dont tread on my freedom to potentially harm or kill the lives of innocent people’ :mad: This is 'Murica. And you cen geeet out! ---
**Author:** ![wolfman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/a8b319/32.png) [@wolfman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfman)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2015, 2:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-youre-wrong-about-but-will-stick-to-anyway/717893/55 "2015-04-18T14:48:16Z")
An object has length, width, and heighth. Deal with it. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2015, 2:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-youre-wrong-about-but-will-stick-to-anyway/717893/56 "2015-04-18T14:51:17Z")
**Ambivalid** , I really, really hope you’re whooshing us there. ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2015, 2:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-youre-wrong-about-but-will-stick-to-anyway/717893/57 "2015-04-18T14:55:58Z")
> [@DrDeth](#): > > English is full of homonyms. It would be pretty hard to do a sentence where the reader would confuse 'wont" (will not) vs “wont” (in the habit of). Plus it’s uncommon enough that autocorrect changes it to _won’t_ and you have to intentionally choose _wont_ instead. I even delete _wont_ out of my spelling dictionaries. ---
**Author:** ![WhyNot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c77e96/32.png) [@WhyNot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WhyNot)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2015, 3:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-youre-wrong-about-but-will-stick-to-anyway/717893/58 "2015-04-18T15:11:16Z")
> [@wolfman](#): > > An object has length, width, and heighth. Deal with it. Preach it. Also, things can have warmth or coolth. ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2015, 9:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-youre-wrong-about-but-will-stick-to-anyway/717893/59 "2015-04-18T21:28:25Z")
> [@Little\_Nemo](#): > > Europeans and soldiers are right. Dates should be written day, month, year not month, day, year. It’s 17 April 2015 not April 17, 2015. No, it should be year, month, day: 2015, April 17. If used in a spreadsheet, that’s the way it sorts best. ---
**Author:** ![elfkin477](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a9a28c/32.png) [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2015, 12:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-youre-wrong-about-but-will-stick-to-anyway/717893/60 "2015-04-19T00:35:05Z")
I understand that there is no “i” in realtor, but I’m not going to pronounce it with two syllables. First, no one I know says it the way it’s allegedly supposed to be pronounced. And Real-tor sounds like a villain in a Godzilla movie. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-youre-wrong-about-but-will-stick-to-anyway/717893.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-youre-wrong-about-but-will-stick-to-anyway/717893.md?page=4)