I get paid once a fortnight (every other Friday) but my husband gets paid on the 15th and Last Day of the month. So as the dates of each month cycle around, we end up in sync about half of the year and the rest of the time we’re essentially getting paid every week. The latter schedule is vastly preferable. I think monthly pay would be really hard to budget around. But then again, maybe it would make us more responsible in the long term?
I was having a conversation with LisTheUnspoiled about trying to find a coffee mug at work and having to settle for a paper cup. Which led us to discover that "Styrofoam" was auto-capitalized as though it was a brand name. But we couldn’t figure out the generic term. Like bathroom tissue instead of Kleenex or bandage instead of Band-Aid or gelatin instead of Jell-O. So she used her Google-fu and was informed that the technical term is "expanded polystyrene foam". And apparently wikipedia claims that "in the US and Canada" we incorrectly use this term generically. Do folks in the UK really say “polystyrene” instead? Or just “foam”? Something else?
