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Ever thought about how you could improve your current Roomba? ThinkGeek has, and it's glorious. In a duo of April Fools' Day 2019 product unveilings, ThinkGeek has shown off the Roomby, a Kirby robot ...
I noticed Robin Michael, who is on this site, stated she learned to spell the word 'vacuum' as "vacumn". I was also taught the same thing in school around 40 years ago; I always scored the
+1 It seems that vacuum is the odd word out when placed in a lineup with (for example) continuum, individuum, menstruum, and residuum. I don't know why the -uum in vacuum came to be pronounced differently from the -uum in the others, but to judge from the pronunciation offered in John Walker's A Critical Pronouncing Dictionary, and Expositor of the English Language (1807), 'twas not always thus.
(In a vacuum, “Am I not?” could only be construed as some sort of philosophical counter-Descartian pondering.) In light of this dependence, the comma is more apt then the semicolon.
If a 'vacuum cleaner cleaner' is a machine for cleaning vacuum cleaners, then the person who cleans the vacuum cleaner cleaner would be a 'vacuum cleaner cleaner cleaner'.
In other words, don't talk about how the vacuum cleaner was made in Germany and incorporates the latest technology; tell the client he'll be able to vacuum the house in half the time and he'll never have to buy a replacement bag.