• linucs@lemmy.mlOP
      1·
      2 months ago

      Yeah I posted my question a few hours before that was posted, very cool!

    • cabillaud@lemmy.world
      1·
      2 months ago

      Fun fact:Charles II of England is considered to be the inventor of the three-pieces suit. At the time, French King Louis XIV ordered his footmen to adopt the vest as a way to debase the new English style.

  • Jarix@lemmy.world
    415·
    2 months ago

    “An Historical”

    This makes my skin crawl. I imagine its what people who hate the word moist feel.

    Did you know 3M stands for MOIST MOIST MOIST

    Not sorry

    • 418_im_a_teapot@sh.itjust.works
      61·
      2 months ago

      We all have those words that drive us crazy. Mine is when people pronounce associate as asso-SHE-ate.

      It’s petty. Like really, really petty. But for some reason it grates on my nerves.

      Also there’s an Reddit, user named random_commas or something like that. They leave legitimately good comments but with a few, extra commas in places that really fuck up the flow while reading. It gets me every single, time! I get all frazzled until I notice, the username and realize i’ve been had. Respect to that, person for having such a harmlessly evil schtick.

      • Jarix@lemmy.world
        2·
        2 months ago

        That is wonderously harmful evil, thanks for sharing. Im slightly worried im going to start noticing that asso-she-ate pronoun-she-ation.

        Time will tell!

    • Noel_Skum@sh.itjust.works
      4·
      2 months ago

      In the UK it is not unusual to hear “an ‘istorical” rather than “a historical” so I can - possibly - see where they’re coming from here. UK first letter “h” is going like the French and Spanish version, I.e. silent.

      • Jarix@lemmy.world
        1·
        2 months ago

        I don’t like how much sense that makes.

        But i also am thankful for the framing of it that way cause i think it will stick in my head when I’m reading and be a salve to seeing it spelled out on a page so thanks… Jerk (in a friendly way)

        Edit: spelling

    • francisfordpoopola@lemmy.worldEnglish
      31·
      2 months ago

      Added another moist for emphasis.

      Side note: humble brag…I speak and moderate periodically at conferences. My friends give me a list of 5 words to slide into my speech. Moist was one of them. That’s the hardest word to just slip into (as it were) a presentation. I was successful.

      • Dasus@lemmy.world
        3·
        2 months ago

        As someone who didn’t grow up speaking English, I never got why people consider it so annoying as a word.

        • Jarix@lemmy.world
          1·
          2 months ago

          I feel that is like me failing to understand why pinaeapple on pizza offends many people?

    • linucs@lemmy.mlOP
      2·
      2 months ago

      Sorry man, english is not my first language so sometimes I make mistakes.

      But I searched online and it seems that it’s not totally wrong to use “an” in front of historical, especially in informal writing.

      • Jarix@lemmy.world
        2·
        2 months ago

        Another user pointed out a pronunciation that helps. Some accents pronounce the H in words more than others, “an 'istorical” does trigger whatever my brain does with the hard H after an.

        Also Lacking the ability myself, I only have respect for people that speak more than one language.

        Absolutely no need for an apology friend. Its very much a regional thing as well. But having this discussion im sure someone will learn something they didnt know about the world so in a way, we are by having this discussion helping people learn, and i think its good to learn even if its only useful to others witnessing this discussion

        • Jarix@lemmy.world
          1·
          2 months ago

          Not according to my english teachers, but thats a different discussion and not why I responded

          My english teachers taught it and enforcing it might be why, but it strikes a nerve when i hear it. Not sure why its just uncomfortable to process when i hear it (and i “hear” what im reading in my internal voice. As i understand it not everyone has an internal voice, similar to aphantasia)