And in a last-minute miracle, the Vegas flight went down! OK, that's done. Oy.
Yeah, I had the same issue booking my London flight. It was steady and then suddenly it dropped by $50 one night and then I didn't buy it so it went up $100 the next morning and then by the time I was ready to buy it, it had thankfully gone down $75 or so, so I bought it, and then the next morning it was up $50 again. CRAZY.
Of course, if I bought my flight for Friday right now it would be $3,000. So there's that.
Those Smithsonian ads are awesome.
Happy birthday, Raq!
So, which words did you mispronounce and how embarrassing was it when you were corrected?
Until a few years ago, I thought
bedraggled
was pronounced "bed-raggled." My friend Emily corrected me. I was so confused.
So, which words did you mispronounce and how embarrassing was it when you were corrected?
I have a blind spot for revelation. Unless I stop and think for a second, it comes out my mouth as "relevation".
Also there's a restaurant in town called Sushi Shige that is a nightmare for me to say. But that's more of a tounge twisting issue.
WorldNetDaily is a known wingnut site. I'm peeved I followed the link before I realized who it was.
Oh noes, the Christians are persecuted! Yeah, right. Pull the other one.
"Ennui" - that's a bitch the first time you try to pronounce it.
Oh and "macabre." Ultimately you need to watch a lot of overblown horror parodies until you've heard "Master of the Macabre" to get it right.
Also the names "Sean" and "Geoff."
Mine was epitome. I was reading out loud to my mother when I was around 10-11 and pronounced it "ep'-i-tome." Imagine my surprise when she corrected it to "e-pit'-o-me." I've been suspicious of words ending in "e" ever since. Is it English or is it Greek???
fact: elizabeth taylor outlived the person who wrote her NY Times obit.
Wow.
I know there are a couple of words I still don't have solidly in my head, but I can't remember what they are right now.
Segue
Right?
and archipelago.
I actually corrected my high school English teacher on this one. He sort of blinked and said, "No, I think you're right."