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polaroid of perfection
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Don't know about that, but I occasionally have a brain malfunction and use totally the wrong word - like when I referred to the earth's continents resting on teutonic plates (I think those are the ones made by Meissen or Villeroy and Boch!)
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lobber of scimitars
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My favorite was always "The organ grinder and his minkee."
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To shreds, you say?
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It made perfect sense to me. At a distance ravens look like raisins, especially if there is snow on the ground. I was sad however to remember that was my last conversation with him, but happy that it was about pastires, something we both loved and connected over. But then sad again that we didn't make the chance to sit down and eat some raven infested buns. But then happy, well you get the idea.
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To shreds, you say?
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Join Date: Aug 2005
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I just heard another one just now that I had forgotton about.
Expresso. It's Espresso folks. There's no X in there. |
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Victim of gravity
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Let's talk about ASTERIX, *** the symbol and not the comic strip. We usually hear ASTERISK. I'm not really sure which is correct anymore, but no matter which version I use, the momster will jump at me to say it is the opposite one. Along the same line there is TAMERISK, the saltcedar tree which I remember so fondly from rafting on the Southwestern rivers. Everybody wants to call it TAMERIX. Using X's seems to be a problem for Americans.
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lobber of scimitars
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Since unix, I've just called it "star".
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Icy Queen
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Ok here's something else...... it's not a mispronouncement per se, but it's still irritating.
It drives me nuts when people feel this need to pronounce a particular word with a different accent. Ms white bread suddenly becomes Italian when she says the word risotto, or becomes Greek when she says feta cheese. It's like they think it makes them sound smarter or more worldly, when in fact it makes me cringe and think "what a dork". It seems that women do it more than men - especially the trilling of the letter r in words. I see it all the time on the cooking shows. |
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still says videotape
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and NPR. Of course they never say Carnegie with a proper Scottish brogue.
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