One louse, two lice.
One spouse, two spice.
Proving that variety is the spice of wife, er, life.
Well, it’s not that “any time money” was the reason, they were playing with several terms, and in this case that fact that both were "ATM’ made it a winner.
Pretty well, I am trying to get rid of irregular plurals. They are a bad thing. Already people are using “Mouses”- and other than leaving Man/Men etc, we should encourage this.
It just confuses kids to be told "geese’ when they dont use Goose very often anyway- except as a verb. Let’s drop these- we actually have dropped a lot of them.
Beginning of different story:
The Sears Tower
End of different story
Wouldn’t three minutes after five o’clock actually be “five oh three”, not “three oh five”?
The mouses with louses had houses in the woodses.
Back-in parking. I don’t care how many cites people give me that it’s safer, I will forever think of them as a Super Speshul driver who needs the attention of blocking all the traffic in the entire parking lot while they ever…so…slowly…back into their spot. And half the time they do it badly anyway! They are over the lane, or jutting into the next spot.
My car is tiny and I zip in and out of spots no problem. I just came back from the allergist. When I came out I was parked between an SUV and a minivan, and indeed my view was blocked. So I backed out of the spot slowly, giving people time to see me, and only moved faster when I could actually see people. Wow! It wasn’t rocket surgery at all!
I have a crescent wrench in my toolbox; it may not be made by the Crescent Tool Company, but it’s still a crescent wrench, goddammit.
(see genericized trademark if this doesn’t make sense…)
And anyone who says otherwise will get smacked with my vise grips!
/Nitpick
YYYY/MM/DD-TT:tt is the ONLY system that should be used.
Logical, from biggest to smallest, and it will auto-sort when documents are named this way.
IT’S AN ISO STANDARD, PEOPLE!!!
/Nitpick
I only use POSIX time.
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Forgot to mention my Allen wrenches, which are likewise not manufactured by the Allen Manufacturing Company. I’m never going to call them “hex keys.”
How do you feel about MLB baseball, and VIN numbers?
Also, my clothes are stowed in the draw, not the drawer.
I’m with you here. At this point they are allen wrenches - not even related to the company anymore.
I need to break out my skilsaw (made by Black & Decker).
There are however several ISO standards and several IETF standards. Not to mention ITU standards, MIL standards, FIPS standards, DIN standards, EU standards, Chinese gov’t (I forget the Latinized initialism) standards, etc.
See here for more: xkcd: Standards
ETA: Oh and BTW if you meant ISO 8601, you got it wrong. Said another way, you failed to comply with the standard :smack: 
Ref ISO 8601 - Wikipedia.
I tend to put pound sign after numbers - 1#, 2#, 3#,etc. A friend of mine insists the pound sign must come before the numeral.
When it’s after the number, it’s a pound sign. “I want 1# of ground beef.”
When it’s before the number, it’s a number sign. “He’s our #1 draft pick.”
I always do this if I am unclear whether it is he or she.