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.

Also I have apparently been pronouncing desultory in the British manner all this time. [link]

I played hooky this afternoon. Had my son cover for my work and went to the beach for TWO hours. Swam in the ocean a couple times and caught some rays. Surf temp is 80, which is ridiculous this time of year. The condo has a grill in the beach club area you can reserve so I am using it tonight and having dinner poolside. I feel utterly decadent.

Even with all this discussion I cannot remember from one post to another what the pronunciation of desultory is supposed to be. Or how I usually want to say it, anymore. I don't think I believe it's a word anymore.

Laura, your afternoon and evening sound perfect, and I am exceedingly jealous but ALSO very happy for you!