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Mike's avatar

I saw something the other day (Bluesky? Threads?) that seems like a good mnemonic (or is it mneumonic? haha): cement is flour; concrete is bread.

>Nordstrom's

You'd be hard-pressed up here in Seattle to find someone who DOESN'T say "Nordstrom's", though the one that kind of startled me was hearing people talk about "Boeing's". And I suppose many of us grew up when it was still possible to go to Montgomery Ward['s].

PS If you've detected non-American punctuation style in this comment, a) you'd be right and b) I love being a _retired_ editor.

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Louise's avatar

Oh this was heaven to read. You may have previously covered but I need to add:

Simplistic is not a fancier way to say simple. You may be accurate when you describe your things as simplistic, but I don't think that's what you intended to say.

It's your exercise regimen. not regime.

Dining, not dinning! I haven't seen this for a while, to be fair, but it seemed to be all over every interiors website a few years ago.

I'm confused by the substitution of cliché rather than cliched, to the point where I even avoid saying it.

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