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What pointless little things annoy you?
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Not pronouncing the "h" in "herb". Or the "l" in "solder".
Also, two spaces after a full stop. I thought we stopped doing that in the '90s. And the Internet had killed it off, because HTML just won't display more than one space. But more recently, some platforms have started actually showing multiple spaces again. It just looks so damn wrong.
Oh, and one that occurred to me as a result of writing that previous paragraph. When people write "90's" to refer to the decade of the '90s. Misuse of apostrophes in general, but particularly when it's after a number, acronym, or letter. Mind your Ps and Qs, not P's and Q's.
Well, that's normal in the US to omit.
People do that?!
Both are the standard American English pronunciations. For solder, the o is more of an ah sound so sahder.
Wait till you hear buoy 🤣
Quay confuses me.
Yeah, I know. And it bothers me. It sounds so incredibly wrong.
Yeah, Americans seem to mostly pronounce it "sodder". Which is weird, considering they're more likely than the rest of the English-speaking world to pronounce words like "calm" and "balm" with the l, where for us it's more like "cahm" or "bahm".
"t" in mortgage