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I make coffee every morning for me and my partner. Used to say “coffee!”

After considering the wisdom of Kevin’s “why waste time, say lot word when few word do trick?”, I started pronouncing fewer of the sounds that make up the word. Eventually it became a quiet grunt. “Uh”

In the morning that still means coffee in our house.

Needless to say, if there are cognitive consequences of a reduced word count then “me dead.”

There’s a French First Empire joke in here somewhere.

The roads might be safer if we marked speedos like this

Makes perfect sense! The sharp corners on most rulers like this aren’t very pocket-friendly.

What’s the story with this ruler. It seems to be have markings for measuring up to 20.5cm of length, but it’s labeled from 10 to 30. Why does it not start from zero?