My rain gage got it’s first test the other day. We got a nice 1 7/10" of rain in there. The water line is just barely visible under the bottom holder bracket.
And yes BillyBob in Kansas, your rain gage is metric because it measures in tenths of an inch. So take that! You commie pinkos in California!
As a side note: We got a light frost last night. It got down to 31F/-1C at some point last night. Not a hard enough frost to kill the bell pepper plants outright, but it did singe and tip the leaves a bit this morning.
Your entire education – if it was anything like mine – was dominated by teachers following a curriculum that said that what is prescribed is more important than what is understood, as if at some point we reached an epiphany on the best way to spell things.
Reading Chaucer or Shakespeare is a joy not just because they were highly capable and clever writers, but also because they wrote how they felt. Language is about intelligibility and emotion, not about adherence to arbitrary rules.
That’s not to say that there’s no value in having maxims for spelling, punctuation, or grammar, just that we let ourselves police these things super zealously for very little benefit.
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I agree with everything you said. But I try and limit my zealous policing to myself, to absolutely no benefit indeed. And I can point my finger at the teachers, specially one, to blame for my orthographical traumas. I hated them and their bullshit, and maybe because of that I love linguistic variety, I usually like alternative spellings and words that can be written or pronounced in different ways. But not this one, for some reason.
Maybe, as a non-native English speaker, I learned that word more from reading than speaking (it’s likely I mispronounced it mentally as gorge/gawdg the first time, or few times, I read it even), and it’s a word I read and use more often than the average person. It did take a bit more effort for my brain to understand the sentence because of the spelling, so I guess it didn’t like that.