I see what you're saying. You can't separate form from content as they say, and having control of the form our thoughts take on the page is probably just as important as having control of the thoughts themselves. Considering how much effort I have already expended due to that error, I'll have to think about putting…

Billy, I hate to nitpick, but I have a problem with the headline. The phrase "insane, masturbatory rampage" should be "insane masturbatory rampage." You shouldn't use a comma when the last adjective outranks its predecessor and is an integral part of the noun phrase. In this case, the rampage is not both insane…

i got nauseous reading that story. I'm so sorry that happened. I can't even wrap my head around how fucked that is...

On Tuesday, while waiting as my tattoo artist prepped her station before inking me, a white man leaving the parlor/gallery with his girlfriend came up behind me and ran his hands through my afro.

I used to trick-or-treat with a friend who lived in a neighborhood like the one the Active Bitchface letter-writer describes. We'd start in her neighborhood, but almost always make our way over to the poor neighborhood before long, because they, invariably, gave better candy. Once I was a bit older, I felt SUPER…

You can train a dog not to jump in a couple days. Little defensive aren't we?

Reagan is the worst thing that's happened to the country in the last forty years. Republicans will poison the well completely before we're able to recover and we definitely may not make it back to the economic golden age we experienced in the forties, fifties and sixties. They've shown they have absolutely no desire…

I don't think it's her gender - it's her powerful connections and friends and their potential influence in publishing. No one who wants to be published someday wants to speak out too harshly against someone close to Frank Rich.

You were led to believe, not lead to believe. Unless you were made of a poisonous heavy metal.

I agree; it can be difficult though. Sometimes it can be tricky knowing what to prioritise - oh yuck/oh cringe/did this really just happen?/oh shit is he dangerous?/this guy has my phone number!/ugh this whole thing is awful/how can I get out of this?

you're obviously a troll or you have a real problem with neurodiversity.

Meh - no fighter pilot now or in the near future will probably ever engage in actual air-to-air combat - it's just as dead as surface-to-surface naval warfare. Interview an F-4 crew from 'Nam and report back.

Neato! Thanks for this. Though it does note that the other form is "nonstandard," so... Yay me? :-P

John Walker's Critical Pronouncing Dictionary, published in 1791 and still available in a 2001 reprint of the 1838 edition, stipulates that "in often and soften the t is silent."

The commercials actually pronounce it reel a tor. It bugs me so much.

Yes, this is the one I was gonna add. Drives me nuts when people say "real-a-tor".

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I know this is a little off topic since the article is about word pronunciation but I came across this today and feel like venting it:

The nu cyoo ler one drives me nuts. I work at a company that designs nuke power plants. Our CEO pronounces it wrong. Isn't that day one of your job as the face of a company? Learning to correctly pronounce the ONE thing the company does?

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