It's the ongoing question of who determines the language?
Do academics and governments or is it based on common usage?
Does a dictionary determine the rules or does it reflect the way people speak?
"Wow, my Grandpa wrote the nicest letter to the editor. Everybody say something nice about Grandpa. I know, I know, he has his head the whole way up his ass. Be nice. He's trying. He used to be a Civics teacher in the Sixies. The kids called him "Thumper." "🤣
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And it ain't going to happen with this stone age administration.
It’s now a penny and a one cent coin. Both terms used officially by the US mint 🤷🏻♂️
Next someone is gonna tell me I can’t call the monster Frankenstein. Strange world.
https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=Penny&f=treesort&fq=true&num=14&hl=true&edition=prelim&granuleId=USC-prelim-title31-section5112
I am not ashamed to be a pedant. I am ashamed to be associated with many other "attorneys" these days.
I'm a grumpy old man and I'm here for it. 🍿
Do academics and governments or is it based on common usage?
Does a dictionary determine the rules or does it reflect the way people speak?
Also am a tad annoyed I’ve never heard it/thought of it myself 😔
To be fair that's about the only food decision they've made.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commonwealth_of_Nations
'cuse me while I go watch some soccer.....
One time I say an interview where Melisandre was bytching about we say "aluminum."