I live my life 400 meters at a time. For those 12 .beats or less, nothing else matters

An ‘istoric occasion (if you don’t pronounce the H)

A historic occasion (if you do)

It’s all about the sounds, not the letters.

Kids are frequently taught that letters are vowels (or consonants) when it’s actually the sounds they represent, and there’s not a 1:1 mapping between letters and sounds.

That sounds weird because it is weird.

I think that sort of thing is from people who have read it without hearing it, or are blindly copying others without thinking about it.

Also plenty of people with chronic illnesses need to find a doctor who at bare minimum understands that the disease exists and is willing to try to treat it.

And women looking for birth control or sterilization procedures (even when sterilization is a side effect such as treatment of endometriosis) will need to “shop around” to find a doctor willing to do so, especially if they are not married and even more if they have no offspring.