For me, it may be that the toilet paper roll needs to have the open end away from the wall. I don’t want to reach under the roll to take a piece! That’s ludicrous!
That or my recent addiction to correcting people when they use “less” when they should use “fewer”
Standardize plurals!
Okay Imma pick a fight here. Your suggestion is the opposite of pedantic. It advocates for a “vulgarisation” of Latin loanwords (in the sense of “making them more like common words”).
I want to go back to pluralising more words in line with their Greek or Latin roots. I want to reverse the perfectly natural and reasonable linguistic shift you’re proposing and instead restore or retain that piece of linguistic anachronism as long as possible.
This is the way.
Also, the plural of “octopus” is “assholes.” Trust me, I’m a squid.
Better idea: Make them superplurals.
E.g. fish (singular), fish (plural), fishes (superplural)
As someone who regularly works with matrices, please, no. I’m kinda ok with the indexes though