"Nice" used to mean ugly, mean, rude centuries ago. Language changes. I hate when it changes in thoughtless ways. But noone cares what I think. It changes anyway.

My pet peeves aren't rational. I can accept so many things that happen to English. But these things drive me CRAZY!!! "Perculate" instead of percolate (although we won't hear that very often or for much longer), "nucular" (and I've heard physicists pronounce it that way which astonishes me), apostrophes being used for plural when they only belong to the possessive (e.g. CD's for sale) and "myself" and the like being used in a verbose and inaccurate way (e.g. "If you have any questions, please address them to the secretary or myself".)I'm new at Mudcat and I'm sure those points have been brought up a million times so I'm being redundant but I had to say something about it someone somewhere. So, thanks Mudcat. (Sorry Mudcatters. Thanks for listening.)