Barack Obama: "Now, let me be clear—when it comes to a good meal, I’ve always said that I like burgers."

To be presented as a talk track to the Gettysburg Powerpoint: https://norvig.com/Gettysburg/

There's also only one T in "Atlanta". (For some people there are none.)

Definitely heard "Alana" in the South. On the West cost right now, got a buddy from West Virginia, and even after 20-30-some-odd-years in California, he still says it like that. Among other things he boomhauers.

I didn't realize "boomhauer" could be verbed.

I predict this will end at 9 AM Pacific Daylight Time one morning next December, when the sun still hasn't risen in Vancouver.

Apparently it's also known as the Greek citron, but I don't see it under that name either.

Is this an example of a Big Noun Page?

I am a slightly more complicated man. I see Game of Life in the title, I upvote the post. I also upvote this comment.

The US is sort of intermediate here. In a few cases state borders are time zones borders, but in practice they're determined by which big city people are most integrated with and that often oesn't line up well with state borders. For example the bit of Indiana that's closest to Chicago is on Chicago time.

My theory on why people use "xST" is that the word "standard" time sounds like it is the fancy official time.

When people say EST and mean EDT I'm tempted to just show up an hour late, if it's a meeting I don't want to go to.

I like that theory! I think you're right.

EST = Europe Standard Time

EST is Eastern Standard Time. Most of Europe is on CET or CEST depending on time of year. (Somewhat confusingly, the 'S' in that case refers to Summer rather than Standard!)

OK, I'll assume they meant that when they really meant US Eastern time and I'll be six hours early.

Me too. Who are these people whose kids' sleep schedules are regular enough that this makes it noticeably worse?

(There was one year where the time change in March did actually have a noticeable effect on my kid... and a few days later, just when she had gotten back to "normal", everything shut down for COVID.)