Merriam Webster disagrees.

Word: Respite
WRONG: ree-SPITE
CORRECT: REHS-pit

Wait, so you mean dictionaries document and reflect the usage of language over time?!?!??! I think you're confusing dictionaries with gramma textbooks.

Sherbert and Sherbet are both actual words. Sherbet is the more common, but Sherbert (actual spelling) has been around for at least a couple hundred years. It's also uniquely an American thing.

I'm just going to put this up here, as a reminder that just because someone disagrees with you doesn't mean they're "wrong."

Descriptivism

Many of the different pronunciations are the result of accents/dialects/etc. Words like roof and nuclear come to mind.

Except that many women avoid or leave tech due to the chilly climate: http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/cocktail-party…

Yeah, I've never heard that one too. Being from Ireland, I've noticed that when someone says they're a Catholic they're way more likely to be a lapsed Catholic who only goes for funerals/weddings than someone who says they're Protestant. It's a pain, because in the North I think the Protestant churches are used as an…

I think that girls are TOO socialized and have high expectations for other people's behavior, and therefore find the men and culture in tech unpalatable. People are realizing that our world is now built on tech(and there's a lot of money and jobs in it), so it's gradually becoming more mainstream. Historically and…

She actually has a point. When I transferred to an evangelical school as a kid, I was stunned at how ostracized I was: "You're not Christian; you're Catholic'; "You worship Mary"; "You worship statues"; "You have extra books in the bible that aren't supposed to be there"; "Revelation says you're going to hell because…

I said this over in the ValleyWag post, but the whole pipeline discussion reads bogus to me 'cause it skips over the fact that the average Silicon Valley/SV wannabee basically only recruits from like 10 schools, mostly Ivy League types. So, take a badly skewed pipeline and ratchet it up by a factor of 100 because the…

I don't think it should be an either/or thing. But in the cases of DAs who won't pursue the charges, or while criminal cases are pending, or when rapists are wrongly acquitted, the college can take action to remove students if they've proven to pose a risk to the general student body.

According to Trolldor I don't even exist. The next person I checked doesn't exist either.

Terrible. Plugged in an account I follow as a benchmark-y test (a fairly popular if sometimes intentionally confrontational one, to be sure), and it says they're not on Twitter. Huh? I try a more popular account, same problem. Then, when I try to verify that I didn't just muck up the typing, I have to sign up now?…

You guys are dicks. I have AA lounge access and I make it a point to ask my seat mate if they are interested in being my guest unless they are a mouth breather. What does it cost the airline? 2 or 3 coors light drafts for some free word of mouth "AA is awesome and their lounges rock"? What does it cost you? Nothing.…

Vote: Padmapper / Craigslist

It's no one's fault, but just as guests are regularly reminded that weddings are expensive when subjects like gifts and +1s are raised, it's helpful to remind people that attending them is also expensive. Realizing that these things can be difficult for everyone involved can perhaps inspire a little compassion and…

So you don't have a jersey dress, and all your clothes wrinkle easily? Roll them up in dry cleaner bags (the ones they cover your clothes on the hanger with). They allow the clothes to slip and slide without wrinkling them.

The NYT article mentioned above is about a female flight attendant.