I just got invited to a meeting for a time zone that doesn’t exist this time of year. In the US EST does not stand for Eastern time, it stands for Eastern Standard Time (~November-~March), EST is not an active time zone, it is EDT Eastern Daylight Time. Its a pointless thing, most people probably don’t notice, but its wrong.

Fake internet points to anyone who knows why DB-9 bothers me.

Edit: corrected a missing n in an eastern

  • Dymonika@beehaw.orgEnglish
    3·
    1 month ago

    Not pronouncing the “h” in “herb”.

    Well, that’s normal in the US to omit.

    Or the “l” in “solder”.

    People do that?!

    • l_b_i@yiffit.netOPEnglish
      2·
      1 month ago

      Both are the standard American English pronunciations. For solder, the o is more of an ah sound so sahder.

    • Zagorath@aussie.zoneEnglish
      1·
      1 month ago

      that’s normal in the US to omit

      Yeah, I know. And it bothers me. It sounds so incredibly wrong.

      People do that?!

      Yeah, Americans seem to mostly pronounce it “sodder”. Which is weird, considering they’re more likely than the rest of the English-speaking world to pronounce words like “calm” and “balm” with the l, where for us it’s more like “cahm” or “bahm”.