March 9, 2008


daylight saving time

It’s called “Daylight Saving Time“, not “Savings”. And don’t try to find some article where it’s acceptable to say it now like “irregardless”. Don’t.

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posted by Michael Smith in language 

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15 Responses to “daylight saving time”

  1. Deron Bauman on March 9th, 2008 at 11:04 am

    I love a rant.

  2. Jeff Ventura on March 9th, 2008 at 11:06 am

    Amen. You have no idea how happy I am that someone is calling this out.

    Just like it’s “Ford”, not “Ford’s”. You don’t work at Ford’s, you work at Ford.

    “Labatt”, not “Labatt’s”. You want a Labatt’s? Don’t know what that is. We do have Labatt, though.

    Sorry. I have certain tendencies towards word Nazi-ism. It doesn’t make me proud.

    Nonetheless, good show.

  3. Jeff Ventura on March 9th, 2008 at 11:09 am

    I should point out that “irrespective” is, in fact, a real and viable word. It’s funny how once you denounce “irregardless” to someone, he naturally assumes that “irrespective” suffers the same affliction.

    Gah. There I go again. Sorry.

  4. Deron Bauman on March 9th, 2008 at 11:11 am

    Jeff, we love you more and more.

  5. Michael Grant Smith on March 9th, 2008 at 11:14 am

    It is my belief that women think pedants are sexy, Jeff. It’s so hot.

  6. Jeff Ventura on March 9th, 2008 at 11:14 am

    I’m like a stick of gum: nice and bright and colorful at first, then sorta chewy and without real purpose after a bit.

    Unless it’s that new 5 gum. That stuff is the shizzle.

  7. Jeff Ventura on March 9th, 2008 at 11:16 am

    Michael: using “pedant” on a Sunday is triple points. You take the lead, fucker.

  8. Michael Smith on March 9th, 2008 at 11:16 am

    Ford vs. Ford’s is new to me, but I hear what you’re saying.

    This reminds me that here in California we have a similar freeway debate (just to further explain in sunny California a freeway is a highway and a highway is a freeway) those in Southern California tend to say, “the 5″ and we Northern Californians tend to say just, “5″ (because I wouldn’t say “the Interstate 5″).

  9. Daryl Scroggins on March 9th, 2008 at 11:24 am

    I have an aunt who shops at a Tom Thumb grocery store. She calls it Tom Thumb’s. And when she informs us that she is going there, she says: “Well, I got to run over to Tom Thumb’s’s–can I git you anything?”

    I’m thinking of telling her that sibilance arises from the realm of Satan.

  10. Jeff Ventura on March 9th, 2008 at 11:27 am

    Excessive sibilance is impressive. Far better than excessive plosiveness.

  11. Michael Grant Smith on March 9th, 2008 at 11:32 am

    Jeff said “plosiveness”. Advantage: Jeff.

  12. Absinthe on March 9th, 2008 at 8:22 pm

    This rant would have been more effective if you’d remembered that commas and periods always go INSIDE quotes. Always.

  13. Michael Grant Smith on March 9th, 2008 at 8:30 pm

    Two pedants in one day. Go figure.

  14. Sheila Ryan on March 9th, 2008 at 8:45 pm

    Yeah, and at least one of them wrong, unless I misremember my Fowler.

  15. Sprout on March 10th, 2008 at 9:09 pm

    @Absinthe - to be fair to periods, when a sentence ends with a parenthetical reference following a quotation, the period goes after the parenthetical.

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