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There's more to life than watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer! No. Really, there is! Honestly! Here's a place for Buffistas to come and discuss what it is they're reading, their favorite authors and poets. "Geez. Crack a book sometime."
I can't get out of my side of the bed for books, and I'm out of shelf space. I may have too many.
I am Plei. In fact, I just had to move all the books beside the bed out to the hall so I could spray for fleas. Now I can't walk down the hall.
THIS MUST STOP. I think.
Betsy, you need bookshelves in the garage, is all.
That cross-post? Made me extremely happy.
Like "forte" -- it's only supposed to be pronounced "for-TAY" when referring to music; when it's used to mean a strong point, it's supposed to be pronounced "fort."
I can't imagine using any pronounciation other than "for-TAY." But I'll confess, I've always said "pernickety" and got stared at for it. On the rare occasions I heard it as a kid, there was no "s".
The mispronunciation that makes me cringe didn't make the list. When people say "Prior-ize" instead of "PrioriTize" it drives me crazy!
When people say "Prior-ize" instead of "PrioriTize" it drives me crazy!
I'll sometimes say "prior-ize." Usually when I want something done several days ago. Preferably by Richard Pryor.
Usually when I want something done several days ago. Preferably by Richard Pryor.
So, you want it flambéd?
(rassenfrassen html. I can't even joke in cyberspace!)
I read her Tess mysteries out of order so I am pretty confused about where things were left.
This is a fabulous site to aid in getting the books in order. You can search by author or by character. Handy, that.
And look! Deb Grabien's in there!
www.stopyourekillingme.com PS it's timing out without connecting but I expect that's a temporary thing.
100 most mispronounced words/phrases. There were a few I use that I hadn't known were wrong, most notably "spitting image."
This is why that 100 words list is crap.
This is why that 100 words list is crap.
Yeah, I was reading the list and I was thinking that some of these pronunciations were perfectly acceptable in any dictionary you look.
Great example: often. I say "offen", but I know it's correct to say "often" (even if it irritates me). The list says the former is the only correct way.
The list is absolutely right where it agrees with me:
barbituRate, RRRRRate
. . . and absolutely wrong where it doesn't. Yeah, you shouldn't say "card shark" when you mean "cardsharp", but "card shark" has a perfectly valid meaning (to me, at least) of "person who is very good at some card game or another". Note the lack of trickiness in definition.
(And, hey, look, that other link agrees with me. Cool. I didn't read it first, honest.)
Side note: people have been saying "aks" for 1000 years? Huh. Well, 1000 years ago, "ask" and "ax" might've been synonyms.
I always liked the origin of the word "nickname"--it started out as "an ekename" in Middle English ("eke" meaning "also"), and then the consonant drifted from the article to the noun. Very cool.