For me, it may be that the toilet paper roll needs to have the open end away from the wall. I don’t want to reach under the roll to take a piece! That’s ludicrous!

That or my recent addiction to correcting people when they use “less” when they should use “fewer”

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    2 months ago

    Is it? The voice in my head pronounced zshi when I read it.

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      2 months ago

      I would say it’s pronounced closer to Cedar in this context (mandarin speaker)

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      2 months ago

      Wikipedia says. ʒI: where “ʒ” is the S in pleasure or the g in beige

      Which is to say (smoking my pipe like oxford don) I was making a scatological joke.

      Shitter

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        2 months ago

        That’s fine, it’s just hard to know without hearing native speakers’ pronunciations and you’ve only read it. Thanks for the reply!