Whenever I see a bumper sticker saying X-University Alumni, I laugh a bit. Maybe there are alumni of that college in the car, but more likely it meant “alumnus” or “alumna”. When advertising one’s education, one wants to be smarter than the zebra here.
China has one time zone. It’s past time to have the world have a time zone. We still need to agree upon what date midnight falls on. Maybe have both 24:00 and 00:00 work with all software.
I have seen M or MM described as Meridian or Mid-Meridian. But my computer doesn’t know either. I don’t trust a digital clock to agree with me about noon or midnight, whether it is AM or PM or today or tomorrow.
So the parrot not only thinks like a person, but eats worms too? If I recall, it also thinks all eggs count as her eggs (just as humans think all mammals are human???).
We used to have the phrase “Outer space”. Certainly “space” is everywhere (except for my closet). But some was inner and some was outer.