Does anyone say "traffic hour" instead of "rush hour"? If so where are they from?
454518
No, I've never heard of that phrase either.  Although I've never heard of it, if you google the phrase "traffic hour" you'll find a ton of sites that use it.  Funny enough, most of them seem academic in nature--they seem to study traffic patterns or describe traffic patterns in some way.\n\nDo your parents work for the DoT by any chance??? :)
694647
No they have completely different meanings.\n\nThe first one means just what it says.\n\nThe second says that you didn't get tired til after ten hours.
558599
Yes its true. They say it without the 'r' but it sounds like they said it with the 'r'. Its more common with Yorkshiremen and Australians, I think.
900218
I'm more typically a driver than a pedestrian.  People in genral I think are becoming increasingly impatient.  If it's like some little old lady taking her sweet time it doesn't bother me because she can't help it.  What really gets my goat are the pedestrians that take their sweet time as they saunter lazily across road without regard to the fact that there are people waiting for them to get out of the way.  And those little brats on college campuses that just walk right out in front of you instead of waiting for a clearing in the traffic.  Argghhh!  Ten points to the people that hustle across the street - I love those folks.
466379
Gee...do you park in your driveway or drive on a parkway? Why is the word contraction so long?
28363
We most often run on Drag Time, which is approximately one hour after a stated hour.\n\nFor example:\n"What time does the show start?"\n"10:00pm"\n- means that the performers arrive at 10 but the show doesn't actually get going until 11 or so.
149705
I've seen it written as Is.  Also Isle as another poster mentioned.  I don't think it is usual to abreviate it.
149761
I, and most people I know, say "Shi"  I think the difference is largely attributable to regional differences, and you won't sound wrong either way.  I certainly have heard "si" a lot too.\n\nMerriam Webster's say "shi" as does American Heritage
905503
you would say 'an' hour because in this crazy language, "an" precedes words that begin with vowel sounds...and since the "h" in hour is silent, it sounds like the vowels "ou", kind of like you would san an herb instead of a herb here in the US\n\nHope that helps!
761170
One day, my dad and his brother -- stop me if you've heard this story -- started out on what they thought was to be an uneventful drive to work.\n\nUsually, in desktop publishing, we use an m-dash to separate parenthetical remarks... or parentheses.
28907
"The noun is attested from c.1380; sense of "mass migration of people" (especially to a gold field) is from 1848, Amer.Eng. Meaning "surge of pleasure" is from 1960s. Rush hour first recorded 1890."\n\nFrom the above etymological definition it looks like it is a "mass of migrating people surging with pleasure" that they can go home?!  Sounds good to me!
277486
Do you mean commute time??  I'd say it depends on how far you have to drive.  I took classes at a junior college 30 minutes away once and I ended up writing speeches and practicing them in my car because I needed that extra time to prepare.  Now that I'm in the same town, I study just as much, but I don't feel as pressured to prepare the information.  So my answers are more concise.
445760
Yes. Their paper money has more colors than ours and we're jealous! Also, their speed limit signs are in kilometers, and at first we Americans think its OK to drive really fast, then we figure out it's not miles per hour and we get all bummed out.
16934
It's "I'm" not "im"\n"Michael" not "mickel"\n"Jackson" not jackson"\n"your" not "ur"\n"Tito" not "tido"\n\nYou did spell the word "and" correctly.\n\nThe movie is Rush Hour
808160
hi, it is 3:30pm (3 mins since your post- it tells me)and I'm in the south west of Western Australia enjoying a lazy week-end after a hard week of work...hope you enjoyed the carshow.
875961
Oh man let me tell you.....where YOU live, may be a certain amount of ethnic originated people....but, where I live?.....mostly caucasion, as I am, and they can't drive either....I live in the country....work one night a week...on a deserted country road, two lane, people will ride with their brights on, click them off, only, when they have reached my vehicle, and have blinded the hell out of me....NO ONE HERE where I live in the bible belt America, know how to turn their turn signal light on BEFORE they are gonna turn, they slam their brakes and then turn the turn signal on, IF they turn it on at all!!!!!! I live in White America, Southern region America, and they DO NOT KNOW HOW TO F%^$# DRIVE, to be at the very least!!!! Courteous to the other driver!!!  Everyone is in such a big rush to get wherever they need to go, with no regard to the other people on the road....I AM PREJIDUCE, AGAINST "STUPID" people, I don't care what they are, if they are a holes, they are a holes!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Jiamusi, China. I worked all day and then went for a bicycle ride. I'm not from here (NYer). It's 9:14pm sunday night.