It keeps your head warm on a cold day and looks better (and more professional) than a ski cap How is that not useful or practical?
That’s RIGHT!!
It’s and its.
Their, they’re and there.
It’s “Chief Justice of the United States.”
It’s “the Court of St. James’s.”
And you can’t be more or less unique - no modifiers. You’re unique, or you’re not.
Squealing tire noises when cars accelerate on a gravel surface.
The keyboard that I downloaded onto my phone makes typewriter noises when I press the keys.
Wow! A double possessive?!? :eek: I’ve never heard this!*
The logical question is, “The court of St. James’s what?” :dubious: 
*I’m not puzzled by the -'s, just that it’s used in combination with of.
That would have helped, I think. But such insubordination is bound to bring some wrath down upon your head in any case.
Is it okay to call the outlets holes?
It is completely possible for the moon to cast shadows at night. I have been in places, under a clear sky with a full moon, where the nighttime really did have that kind of blue look. The problem is most people are always near a light source so they never let their eyes adjust to the point where they can see the difference.
As for the uniforms, there’s a few things that piss me off:
- TV characters who wear the Mandarin collar in the raised position.
- The guy on “Helix” who wears his uniform with a popped collar.
- People who have no idea how a firearm operates, and clearly do the wrong thing (like first episode of “Walking Dead,” where the actor thought the slide release was the safety).
FWIW, I think a properly shaped beret can look great, as does the new ASU. Of course, I also think the Napoleonic Wars represented the height of uniform perfection, so you should probably take it with a grain of salt.
Mispronunciations of any word. In this Internet Age, it is totally inexcusable.
Criminal Mind’s resident genius Spencer Reid pronounced Samhain “Sam-han.” Google it, you idiot, and find out it’s correctly pronounced Sow-een.
Totally disagree. There are alternative pronunciations for many, many words in the English language, as well as goofy regionalisms. (e.g., the citizenry of the town of Monticello, in Utah, are viciously adamant that the pronunciation is “Monti-SELL-oh.” Do it wrong, and you will get snapped at with astonishing vituperation.)
Nice guess, but that’s not it. A lot of cameras (at least low-to-medium end) have a “discreet” mode where the camera is totally silent.
He has a didactic memory for print, not sound!
You could be a Parisian beatnique. If you can muster the gaul.
On TV/Movies
- People who are supposed to intlligent and knowledgeable saying their IQs, like in Scorpion, like it was printed in their foreheads by a deity and it’s unchangeable and magical.
- Blinking (and bleeping) screens/letters to show that a computer has finished an activity.
- Lack of mouse/track use.
- Not knowing how manual shifting works.
- Getting second language actors to play deep-in-the-middle-of-nowhere native speakers
What use is an adjective that applies equally to every single macroscopic object in the entire Universe? “Unique” is only useful as a comparative, like “big” or “fast”.
On the same note it’s attorneys-general, not attorney-generals. Lets not get started on crap like “PIN number” or “ATM machine”.
Same in Frisco. 
And etymologically speaking, saute means “to jump or skip,” so if you’re not jerking your wrist upwards and making the food jump in the air, it’s cheating. Or if you’re uncoordinated like me, at least giving a vigorous stir.
It’s not just the east coast. The northern 2/3 of California does not use “the.” It’s a function of movies being made in Hollywood.
In media, or in general? I hate when someone has the wherewithal to look up an easy to Google thing, but asks for the definition etc. Like the Samhain Wikipedia article uses both IPA and phonetic, but if it only had the former I’d understand a screw up, but not if you ask me what the capital of Ethiopia is when you’re in front of a computer.
That’s cute.
Big and fast are not comparative, and no, something cannot be partially unique; unique is an absolute.