De-SULT-ory. No?

He was understanding, and I put a good face on it, but it is still embarrassing, and it will take some time to get over that.

Ugh, I'm sorry. You shouldn't have to explain by now.

I don't care so much about explaining; I just care about explaining to my brother, who's close enough that he should know better.

Hugs to all that are GOING THROUGH THE SHIT.

My verbal warning on Monday went about as good as it could go. It was with my favorite person on the team and I was a Smartass and she understood.

I remain PISSY though and am just trying to get stuff off my desk without having to talk to people, most specifically my boss. Also still looking for other positions to apply to. We had another Department employee give notice last Friday, it was our most recent hire and she is GREAT, so her leaving is a real bummer. We currently have ONE Chief in our 6 divisions. ONE out of SIX.

JZ, bad timing, bro!! Literally! Tell him thanks but no thanks.

De-SULT-ory. No?

Nope! That’s how I’d been pronouncing it!

MsBelle, glad the warning part wasn’t even more obnoxious that it could have been.

Which reminds me of how I though archipelago was pronouced before I ever heard it out loud... had the stress on the wrong syllable... arkuhpuhLAWGo. I don't know, man... I still kind of dig it.

Same, although I'm still not sure which is correct (Im almost certain there's a song that pronounces it with the emphasis on LA but that could be because of the music and not because it's regionally correct or whatever. Can I remember what song? No. Although my original pronunciation was with a softer ch as well

my entire life of pronouncing shit in my head has been a lie

I know that is true for me. But I mostly don't care! What's "correct" anyway?

When I was in college one of my dorm mates favorite movies was Barfly which we, of course, always pronounced barf-ly. But that was a joke.

I hate nightmares like that, Tep! So hard to recover from. Walking around the house touching stuff sounds like a genius way to reassure yourself.

Aw, Little People. I didn't know there was a new version. We only had the house, I think, but lots of people to have adventures on furniture or ad hoc landscapes

Pissy seems like an appropriate response to the situation, msbelle

Yeah there’s lots of stuff I mispronounce on purpose! But I wasn’t going it on purpose with desultory.

Yeah there’s lots of stuff I mispronounce on purpose!

Eventually, "debris" pronounced as "DEB-riss" is going to come back to bite me in the ass.

Related to deb-riss, I learned yesterday that there's a weather radar called the Debris Radar, which apparently can accurately identify the type of debris that would indicate recent tornado (or derecho) activity. And now I want to know what the debris threshold is to make it on the radar, because what if you just have a lot of junk in your yard? (No, I assume it's type/amount/pattern of debris combined with a tornadic weather pattern that just happened. So folks with, say, a drill press in their driveway are safe from the debris radar.)

I learned how to pronounce desultory last week.

I had no idea. Probably never heard it said aloud before. Huh. Yes, you made me Google to hear it.

Apparently, it's arkuhPELLago. Whatever, Big Geography!

Epitome is the one I purposefully mispronounce but then occasionally assure listeners that I'm doing it in purpose, which pretty much takes away the "funny," which is probably not all that funny anyway. But, there it is.

I started work at 6a this morning, so I am SUPER done. And ordering food.

I say "Supposably" and "it fucken wimdy" a lot.

I'm constantly either explaining "it fucken wimdy" to not-extremely-online people or keeping myself from saying it!

I'm currently concerned about removing and preserving its extremely cool stickers (fanart for Over the Garden Wall, Our Flag Means Death, Hunt for the Wilderpeople and Beetlejuice, plus one local Miyazaki/public transit mashup with an orange catbus named Mewni).

See, this is why I never stick stickers on anything. (And that has been true since childhood.)

I need a nap just thinking about it.

And you should have a nap!!

I remain PISSY though and am just trying to get stuff off my desk without having to talk to people, most specifically my boss.

That sounds right.