Guillotine.
Sooner or later, you're gonna want it. And the second — the second — that happens, you know I'll be there. I'll slip in, have myself a real good day.
Spike ,'Conversations with Dead People'
Natter 67: Overriding Vetoes
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, nail polish, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Tom Scola - Mar 23, 2011 9:32:58 am PDT #29811 of 30001
Mr. Scola’s wardrobe by Botany 500
Polter-Cow - Mar 23, 2011 9:33:44 am PDT #29812 of 30001
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
epitome
Oh yeah, I definitely thought that was pronounced like it looks. Don't remember when I found out the right way, though.
Zenkitty - Mar 23, 2011 9:34:16 am PDT #29813 of 30001
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.
So, which words did you mispronounce and how embarrassing was it when you were corrected?
Proprietor (PROP-uh-teer), Toledo (TOE-le-doh), and mausoleum (maw-SO-lee-um). I still get mausoleum wrong half the time. It was embarrassing and infuriating. I was a kid, in all three cases, and it was my family laughing at me.
I still don't know how to pronounce archipelago.
Tom Scola - Mar 23, 2011 9:36:12 am PDT #29814 of 30001
Mr. Scola’s wardrobe by Botany 500
ark-ə-PEL-ah-go.
erikaj - Mar 23, 2011 9:38:08 am PDT #29815 of 30001
I'm a fucking amazing catch!--Fiona Gallagher, Shameless(US)
inchoate Mamet(As in David) Talking about David Ma*may* was way more embarrassing cause I actually said it out loud and thought I was slick, besides.Sometimes I still get flushed cheeks if he is reviewed and I see it. Keith Olbermann used "inchoate" in a commentary so that was a private embarrassment thinking how often I thought "en-choat" and nodded at myself. Of course, my dad sometimes made fun of me for using exotic words *correctly* too, so I probably have many issues about that kind of thing.
Allyson - Mar 23, 2011 9:39:22 am PDT #29816 of 30001
Wait, is this real-world child support, where the money goes to buy food for the kids, or MRA fantasyland child support where the women just buy Ferraris and cocaine? -Jessica
Hyperbole.
Hyperbowl.
Polter-Cow - Mar 23, 2011 9:39:43 am PDT #29817 of 30001
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Yep, did that one too.
Tom Scola - Mar 23, 2011 9:41:15 am PDT #29818 of 30001
Mr. Scola’s wardrobe by Botany 500
I have to check myself every time I say hyperbole out loud, because I still pronounce it hyperbowl in my head.
erikaj - Mar 23, 2011 9:41:36 am PDT #29819 of 30001
I'm a fucking amazing catch!--Fiona Gallagher, Shameless(US)
Probably. We here in the desert ain't great with the fancy book learning.
erikaj - Mar 23, 2011 9:41:37 am PDT #29820 of 30001
I'm a fucking amazing catch!--Fiona Gallagher, Shameless(US)