Sunk cost
How do your decisions rate on your regret index? High on mine, for the time being, is moving to a neighborhood whose community pool closes at 7 p.m.
Addendum: Having just used whose inanimate, I recalled a draft post that was never published (originally inspired by Tony Snow's seemingly excessive use of "of which" in his statements to the press). Here's the part I put together before realizing my disinclination to spend any time reading White House press briefing transcripts:
Take it away, Chicago Manual of Style:
The old Fowler's Modern English Usage might give you a chuckle. After some ridiculous examples that use "of which" in order to avoid "whose," the article closes with, "Let us, in the name of common sense, prohibit the prohibition of whose inanimate; good writing is surely difficult enough without the forbidding of things that have historical grammar, and present intelligibility, and obvious convenience, on their side."
Right?
Second addendum: excellent.
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