In German I deliberately write the word “Standard” (same meaning as the English “standard”) with “t” at the end: “Standart”. Likewise all words that have it as a stem, such as “standartmäßig” or “Standartabweichung” (“according to standard”, “standard deviation”).

The reason:
Etymologically (although contested), “Standard” developed from the Old Low Franconian (Old Dutch) compound “standhard” just as in “stand + hard”, meaning “standing firm” or “steadfast” (like your morning wood :D ).
The other, contesting, etymology derives it from the Old French “estendre”: such as in “extend”.

However, while the particle “hard” became “hart” in modern German, officially, “Standard” still has to be written with the “d”. Thus, writing “Standart” with “t” is my silent rebellion against logical inconsistencies in languages.

In English I don’t care, because “hard” is still written with “d”, therefore “standard” is absolutely fine for me here.

Funnily, some dictionaries, e.g. DWDS, declare “Standart” a common orthographic mistake.

But I will keep writing “Standart”, until “Standart” becomes the new ‘Standart’. ;)

Edit:
I just remembered a second reason:
In German “Standard” is usually even pronounced with the harder “t”. Nobody says “Standard” with the soft “d” as it is usual in English. Same thing with “hart”. So even more reason to update the German ‘Standard’ to ‘Standart’.

White trim on houses make them look cheap/bad. You’ve got every color in existence paint your house something interesting.

The word is “yeah”.

Not “yea”.

The later rhymes with “yay” and means something similar to but distinct from "yes’

Similarly it is yea/nay not yay/nay.

And fuck English for making the incorrect more logical and consistent. Lol

Even if you did put learning how to file your taxes in high school, no one was ever going to pay attention to it. We can tell based on how so many people voted in the previous election.

No one would ever make fun of British food again if the Anglosphere was more aware of Dutch food.

If it doesn’t come entirely encased in pastry, then it isn’t a pie, it’s a bloody casserole with a hat!

Pubs that serve “pies” and then give you slop with a square of pastry that clearly wasn’t even in contact with the slop before it hit the plate should be turned into Costa coffee shops for their crimes.

(Shepherd’s pie and cottage pie are so named for historical honorary reasons, and may continue to be so.)

The calendar should be 13 4-week months that always end on Sunday.

The leftover day should be considered a worldwide holiday.

Any time there is a leap year situation, all that time gets added to this one day, like the injury time at the end of a soccer/football match.

I don’t like small tiles. I prefer wood, carpet, cement and smooth large tiles.

“Ignorant” does mean wilfully ignorant. It doesn’t just mean uninformed.

To be vacant is to have been vacated.

To be an applicant is to have applied.

To be a claimant is to have made a claim.

And to be ignorant is to have ignored something.

(Of course, not all “-ant” words seem to stand alone without their suffix–at least, not in today’s vernacular. Does an arrogant person arrog? Does a fragrant flower frag? Rob Words might have more to say about the vestigial origins of some of these.)

Can’t wait to learn how I might just be ignorant about this (by my definition or the “real” one).

People who cannot return a shopping cart to a proper location should not be able to use said shopping cart.

I like to use tabs when I program. I like that I can be editing the same file in a network drive with my tiny screen and have my editor there show a tab as two spaces and my big screen where it shows as four. I like that when I’m screen sharing I can zoom in and bump my font size, then set the tabs to render as smaller so I don’t need to run reindent on the whole file. I like that when I’m using a boring IDE with no customization it just inserts an indentation.

I also hate auto-closing parentheses and brackets.

YouTube is driving young people toward accepting dystopian thinking

We surrender language to scientific/other detail oriented pursuits too easily.

According to some, a raspberry is not a berry, but a pumpkin is. That’s dumb. The word berry existed before botanists tried (and failed) to determine exactly what it meant, and the original meaning is still way better/more useful than the botany one.

So here it is: a berry is a small fruit, which is usually sweet, and usually edible. Raspberries, blackberries, strawberries, cherries, grapes, gooseberries, currants, and blueberries are all berries. Pumpkins, watermelons, tomatoes, zucchini and bananas are not.

Other terms that have been co-opted this way include “work”, “salt”, and “rock”. I believe the fields stealing these terms should be forced to come up with their own, different words.

Peanut butter and jelly is a pastry. It’s a dessert, not a lunch.

It’s crazy to wash the oils out of our hair and replace them with conditioner. A factory cannot make a higher performance substitute to the natural