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Re:US Senate votes unanimously to make daylight savings time... by munk-a on Tuesday March 15, 2022 @03:05PM (#30689675)
Stop dreaming - we didn't allow that level of pedantry even when DST was a thing. "Daylight savings time" might be an eggcorn - but it's more accepted in conversation than "daylight saving time" at this point.
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Re:US Senate votes unanimously to make daylight savings time... by CoastalCoder on Tuesday March 15, 2022 @03:23PM (#30690017)
I have an armchair-theory that different pronunciations require different amounts of work, and that the less-effort versions win over time. Particularly certain transitions from one syllable to the next.

Maybe not a great example, but "savings-time" seems to require slightly less work than "saving-time". At least for me.

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Re:US Senate votes unanimously to make daylight savings time... by munk-a on Tuesday March 15, 2022 @03:31PM (#30690202)
As uh bahn an bread Bahstunian I'd ahgue dat reginal dieuhlecks ken cause ovahuhl drifs in prahnunciashen ohvah time. Baht thas jus me. Diffrin fraysus will folluh da culltrull kahntexts dey ehmehged frahm.

I think you're mostly right though.

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