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For me, it may be that the toilet paper roll needs to have the open end away from the wall. I don't want to reach under the roll to take a piece! That's ludicrous!

That or my recent addiction to correcting people when they use "less" when they should use "fewer"

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[–] Zachariah@lemmy.world 6 points 3 months ago (1 children)

That or my recent addiction to correcting people when they use "less" when they should use "fewer"

Funny: Mine is correcting people who try to enforce a prescriptive distinction between “less” and “fewer” when “less” is often used with count nouns. They can be interchangeable, and it’s been this way for hundreds of years.

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[–] bannanaente@lemmy.world 6 points 3 months ago

You can be a duck and a banana at the same time.

[–] tunetardis@lemmy.ca 6 points 3 months ago (8 children)

The kilometre—with the accent on the ki and the re ending—is a unit of distance. A kilometer—with the accent on the lo and the er ending—would be a device that measures kilos, like perhaps a bathroom scale? centimetre, millimetre, speedometer, altimeter.

I'm actually fairly forgiving about people saying it the wrong way, but when Siri gives me GPS directions, it really grinds my gears. She should know better!

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