Things you're wrong about but will stick to anyway

[LSLGuy]

@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?)

[DrDeth]

@GuanoLad

Pronouncing “gif” with a hard G.

I do that too!

[DrDeth]

@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!

[Don_t_Panic]

@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”?

[DrDeth]

@fachverwirrt

Do you put an apostrophe in “won’t”?

I wont do it.

[fachverwirrt]

@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.

[Don_t_Panic]

@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.

[WhyNot]

@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.

[Don_t_Panic]

@WhyNot

Genitals. For both genders.

Well, here we go again. You people, always with your entirely reasonable suggestions, and good points…

[Mithras]

@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.

[Sefton]

Synth-pop from the 1980s is excellent music.

I’m never going to turn 40.

[Doug_K]

@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.

[DrDeth]

@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).

[Ambivalid]

.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!

[wolfman]

An object has length, width, and heighth. Deal with it.

[Chronos]

Ambivalid, I really, really hope you’re whooshing us there.

[BigT]

@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.

[WhyNot]

@wolfman

An object has length, width, and heighth. Deal with it.

Preach it.

Also, things can have warmth or coolth.

[panache45]

@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.

[elfkin477]

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.