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Post by arlancam509 »

Why do we say or type RPM as RPM's or RPMs? I don't see or hear anyone saying or typing MPH's.

I also use "we" above loosely because it bothers me when someone adds an ess after the acronym for revolutions per minute. It isn't revolution per minutes.

mile per hours... miles per hour ... emm pee aitches!

I'm ok with "rippims" because then the reader or listener knows you are being silly and it clues them in on the joke.

I know, I know... I need to just figure out how to be ok with people adding an 'S' to everything... Walmarts, going the doctors, Krogers, etc

Did I put enough dots in this? Maybe I should add more!
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'Pendant' was an answer in a crossword puzzle that Samantha was working on earlier this evening.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synchronicity

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I don't think you are being pedantic, same as me, it just grinds my gears.

Like a radiator being called a rad, or telling bewildered kids FX is visiting at Christmas time, i see no impediment to finishing a word that is not that onerous in the first place.

Dots are fine, they give sentences emphasis.
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Weird Al weighs in ...

https://youtu.be/8Gv0H-vPoDc
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Post by hoodeng »

Spot on Kevin! Weird Al covers it all. [there's that i e thing again].

Pity i didn't take notice when i was at school, and spent the rest of my life trying to catch up.
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