huf [he/him]

oh yeah, mine expects me to fix the weather too. or to open the window to the other outside, the one that doesnt have rain.

she once caught a mouse without hurting it (much), brought it inside and then sat on it. just sat on the mouse. and the mouse just cowered there, sunk in her chest fur.

is this about the copper again?

why do you think that matters? what actually matters is how people use language. admittedly, this also involves studying people like you who have weird ideas about language.

if you just listen to people, you’ll find that they use this phrase to talk about atm machines. that’s all that is required. it doesnt matter if you think the name for a thing was derived through a process you personally dont like. it’s still a name for a thing that is in common use and understood by people.

oh, also, do you think the “river avon” is also wrong? why or why not?

that’s a spelling mistake, which is an entirely different kettle of fish

lol no. why would it be an error? if that’s how people say it, that’s what it’s called.

native speakers cannot by definition make systematic errors. they cannot make “common mistakes”. if a thing is common, that’s the correct way to say it. so what do you mean? spelling mistakes? (spelling is a separate thing from language)