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I feel better now that I'm not the only one to have heard that rule.
eta: Because I was all set to travel back in time to when a teacher of mine corrected a student on the use of "done" and say to the teacher, "You're just making shit up, aren't you?" Who knows what that could have done to the time stream.
My 6th grade teacher told us you should only use "a lot" if you were saying "a lot of land". I break that rule a lot.
Okay, now that's insane.
A lot of insane.
Also, I feel like "Hay is for horses and better for cows" is somehow appropriate here.
My father was very strict about the varying usage of "brought" vs. "took." I fear I cannot recall the distinction myself.
My grandfather had a pet peeve about the misuse of "momentarily," which means "for a moment," not, "in a moment," and always got very annoyed when on an airplane they'd announce, "The plane will be landing momentarity."
My grandmother corrected our pronunciation of Florida and orange if we did not use a short o as in "cot."
It's a wonder I can even make myself understood, I tell you.
My mother was very strict about this:
When I was in kindergarten-2nd grade-ish I remember teachers and my parents telling us that you only use the word "done" when referring to food that's baking (or cooking?). Otherwise you were supposed to use the word "finished". So I dutifully followed this rule until I finished high school, at which point I stopped giving a fuck.
It made her nutty if I asked if she was done. She would say "Do I look like a cake????"
She also dislikes the phrase "graduate high school" instead of "graduate from high school"/
Maybe I'm confusing Sudafed with something else that makes people sleepy.
Sudafed (at least, the real stuff) is a close relative of speed. Many other cold drugs (especially since Sudafed got harder to get) include a bunch of antihistamines, which are the anti-speed.
For people who've encountered the "done" rule--can you apply "done" to stuff you're cooking, not baking?