Remember those quaint days of yore when we used to learn about a concept called “checks and balances” in civics class?
Good times. . .
Good times
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Top and bottoms
I put on a shirt and my pants. Why don’t I put on my shirts and a pant?
I’ve heard that it’s because “pant” refers to the pant leg, and there are two of those, hence the plural. Fair enough. So why don’t we call our shirts “sleeves”?
I could handle putting on my sleeves and my pants. At least that’s consistent.
And there is the added complication when discussing pajamas (I thought of this after posting the previous post): we don’t call them pajama pants. At least we don’t around here. They are called pajama bottoms.
But, darn it if we don’t keep that plural. Pajama bottoms. I can put on my pajama bottoms all day long. But I can’t put on my pajama tops.
English. It’s weird.
Did you know . . .
. . . that to replace the battery on a Chrysler Sebring*, you have to remove the wheel and the wheel-well cover.
That was some fun, today, I’ll tell ya what.
* The Sebring is the car Michael drives on The Office. It’s a convertible for people who can’t afford convertibles. It was my present to my better half on her last significant decade-crossing birthday.
And the battery is located in the wheel-well, just so ya know . . .
Random question, but it’s on my mind
Do people who start almost every sentence with “To be honest . . .” or “Let me be honest with you . . .” make you nervous?