Why the grimace? Rubber ducks definitely aren’t made of rubber these days. They’re plastic.
Some middle-aged guy on the Internet. Seen a lot of it, occasionally regurgitating it, trying to be amusing and informative.
Lurked Digg until v4. Commented on Reddit (same username) until it went full Musk.
Was on kbin.social (dying/dead) and kbin.run (mysteriously vanished). Now here on fedia.io.
Really hoping he hasn’t brought the jinx with him.
Other Adjectives: Neurodivergent; Nerd; Broken; British; Ally; Leftish
Why the grimace? Rubber ducks definitely aren’t made of rubber these days. They’re plastic.
As far as people likely to say that middle one go, most of Britain would disagree that it rhymes with spider. You might get a crisp T or, more likely, a glottal stop, but not a D sound.
That said, Aussies are even more likely to use it and they do have some t-d merger going on in some of their accents.