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What really obvious thing have you only just realised?

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,614 ✭✭✭muddypaws


    franer1970 wrote: »
    The "spelt out" way of writing numbers (one, two, three, sixty nine etc.) is really pointless.
    It's always much easier just to write the numeral version.
    Why did they even invent it?
    It's not like anyone's ever felt to need to have spelt out versions of letters (e.g. double u, ex, why, zed).

    There is a rule of thumb, not sure if its an actual grammatical rule, that you spell out numbers up until ten, then use the figures after that.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,217 ✭✭✭maximoose


    The Cool wrote: »
    That people say "be there or be square"
    because if you're not there you won't be a-round....

    I thought it meant you were 'square' as in boring if you didn't go


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,993 ✭✭✭Potential Underachiever


    I thought the saying was 'be there or be a non cylindrical object'?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,522 ✭✭✭runawaybishop


    maximoose wrote: »
    I thought it meant you were 'square' as in boring if you didn't go

    It does.


  • Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 95,756 Mod ✭✭✭✭Capt'n Midnight


    franer1970 wrote: »
    It's not like anyone's ever felt to need to have spelt out versions of letters (e.g. double u, ex, why, zed).

    "www" has more syllables than "world wide web" , just saying


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,856 ✭✭✭764dak


    franer1970 wrote: »
    The "spelt out" way of writing numbers (one, two, three, sixty nine etc.) is really pointless.
    It's always much easier just to write the numeral version.
    Why did they even invent it?
    It's not like anyone's ever felt to need to have spelt out versions of letters (e.g. double u, ex, why, zed).

    When you were writing a cheque or document you had to write the numerals and also spell out the name because it was easy to change the figure.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,461 ✭✭✭✭Pawwed Rig


    muddypaws wrote: »
    There is a rule of thumb, not sure if its an actual grammatical rule, that you spell out numbers up until ten, then use the figures after that.
    I never heard of that 'rule of thumb'.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,793 ✭✭✭FunLover18


    "www" has more syllables than "world wide web" , just saying

    yeh but 'world wide web' takes longer to type into an address bar


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 14,949 ✭✭✭✭IvyTheTerrible


    Pawwed Rig wrote: »
    I never heard of that 'rule of thumb'.
    It's a standard rule for English writing.

    http://www.dailywritingtips.com/10-rules-for-writing-numbers-and-numerals/


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 335 ✭✭franer1970


    The grey in Fifty Shades of Grey is a Mr. Grey, not the colour grey.
    This is more obvious to Americans who would spell the colour "gray".


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 335 ✭✭franer1970


    It BeeMee wrote: »
    Yankee Echo Sierra
    Tango Hotel Echo Yankee
    Hotel Alpha Victor Echo

    Those codes were invented to make spoken communication over poor quality radio more reliable, can't remember ever seeing them written down.

    My original comment stands, with the aforementioned exceptions for millions, billions, trillions and whatever comes after that. :D


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,986 ✭✭✭Ihatecuddles


    Pickles are pickled cucumbers. How did I not realise that??


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,793 ✭✭✭FunLover18


    Pickles are pickled cucumbers. How did I not realise that??

    I'll never forget my utter disappointment when I too realised that there was no such vegetable as a pickle :(


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,356 ✭✭✭Into The Blue


    So what the fūck is a gherkin?!?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,793 ✭✭✭FunLover18


    So what the fūck is a gherkin?!?

    A specific type of pickled cucumber.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,356 ✭✭✭Into The Blue


    FunLover18 wrote: »
    A specific type of pickled cucumber.

    Will I never...


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,453 ✭✭✭Sheepy99


    Will?


  • Moderators, Arts Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 79,076 Mod ✭✭✭✭New Home


    South African accent?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,356 ✭✭✭Into The Blue


    New Home wrote: »
    South African accent?

    Sure ting


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 222 ✭✭orlyice


    I took the memory card from my Sony Ericsson phone one day and realised it said Sony on it. Asked my hubbie if Sony Ericsson and Sony have some sort of a deal because Sony supply the memory card to my phone. Once he realised I was serious he nearly crashed the car laughing at me :( for some reason I had never realised the Sony part of the name and thought it was just one word, like sonyericsson. It's only when he was able to compose himself enough he said the name of the phone properly, complete with the space between the two words. I know it's written on the phone with the space, but I am from the Midlands and run all my words into each other so that's my defence :)

    Also just to point out that I am not blonde..... And I notorious for mixing up the words of songs. Make for very interesting listening when I am singing in the car. But that's for another post


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,979 ✭✭✭✭Rothko


    That the word alphabet comes from alpha and beta. I must be the slowest human being in history.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,357 ✭✭✭Littlekittylou


    People do not change.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,961 ✭✭✭Markcheese


    Suas11 wrote: »
    That the word alphabet comes from alpha and beta. I must be the slowest human being in history.

    2nd slowest -

    Slava ukraini 🇺🇦



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 99 ✭✭YoungKhalifa


    I used to think it was cold slaw, instead of coleslaw


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,495 ✭✭✭✭eviltwin


    That when American recipes measure in cups, they don't mean actual cups.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 7,473 ✭✭✭Wacker The Attacker


    I just learned what my sister is expecting. It wasnt really obvious. I dont give a sh1t


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 11,456 ✭✭✭✭J Mysterio


    eviltwin wrote: »
    That when American recipes measure in cups, they don't mean actual cups.

    Why not?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,192 ✭✭✭pharmaton


    J Mysterio wrote: »
    Why not?

    because cups come in all shapes and sizes. I fixed this by buying actual sized measuring cups. They're like real cups only more useful.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,766 ✭✭✭Bongalongherb


    That I'm out of rizlas.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 557 ✭✭✭Joe Doe


    I used to think it was cold slaw, instead of coleslaw

    or cold sore


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