It's "bald-faced liar", not "bold-faced liar."

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:On a tangential note, there are a words and phrases that I didn't know how to pronounce properly until I was in college because I'd only read them and never heard them spoken. I'm not sure if this is a more or less embarrassing problem than then menage a trois mistake, but it was most common with place names that were (the classic examples being, of course, Greenwich Village and Worcester, Mass.).

Just "there are words...." Oops.

And also "than the..." Man, I am tired. Going to bed now.

I did the same thing with many words during high school. In fact, I thought "hors d'oeuvres" was pronounced "horse doovers" until I was about eighteen. Yikes!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I detest the way everyone mispronounces L'Enfant Plaza and Grosvenor Station!

Everyone in my husband's family pronounces it "lin fant. All of the children are Ivy league trained doctors. It is almost like a mispronunciation is genetic with them. They do this with several words. It used to infuriate me, now it's just funny.

Wait, how do you pronounce L'Enfant? Now I'm feeling paranoid about it. The metro says it wrong, right?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I detest the way everyone mispronounces L'Enfant Plaza and Grosvenor Station!

Everyone in my husband's family pronounces it "lin fant. All of the children are Ivy league trained doctors. It is almost like a mispronunciation is genetic with them. They do this with several words. It used to infuriate me, now it's just funny.

Wait, how do you pronounce L'Enfant? Now I'm feeling paranoid about it. The metro says it wrong, right?

Like this: Lahn-fahn

[Anonymous]

Yawn.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Yawn.

Yahn-fahn.

Go to bed.

[Anonymous]

Who cares? Most folks get the point. This is what you do with your precious free time? Scroll DC Urban Mom looking for this sort of thing?

[Anonymous]

The dog bit me.
My son was bitten by a dog.

Not "my son was bit by a dog". ANd perpetrated by multiple posters. Aaaargh.

[Anonymous]

Toe the line, not tow the line.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I saw one of the funniest posts on someone's FB page the other day, which I think the readers of this thread will appreciate. As background, some friends from highschool are late 30s and living like they are 25. They were joking about having a 'manaje atwa'.

I get hives everytime I hear someone say "him/her and I".

OMG, this is funny. I thought is was some African word, I had to sound it out several times to get "menage a trois" out of it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

I did the same thing with many words during high school. In fact, I thought "hors d'oeuvres" was pronounced "horse doovers" until I was about eighteen. Yikes!

I did the same with victuals (pronounced vittles).

[Anonymous]

Moot point: A debatable question, an issue open to argument.

It DOES NOT mean a closed issue or a dead issue. I don't know how or when everyone started to use it to mean it's not worth talking about or it's over--it means exactly the opposite.

Also makes me nuts.

[Anonymous]

Groton: in Connecticut, it rhymes with cotton.
Groton: in England, it sounds like grow-ton.

Thames River: in Connecticut, pronounced with the 'Th' like 'this'.
Thames River: in England, pronounced with the 'Th' like 'tea'.

Just so ya know. 8)

[Anonymous]

We are not in France. The proper pronunciation of L'Enfant in L'Enfant Plaza is "lon-font." I have never heard someone say "lan-fan" and I'm glad I've now been informed that some do because otherwise I would have been in serious danger of laughing in their face, particularly if they used a "correct" French accent.

[Anonymous]

"Fulsome" means offensive or disgusting. It's not a fancy way of saying "full."

"Nonplussed" means confused or perplexed. It does not mean unconcerned (though I agree it sounds like it should mean that).

[Anonymous]

At least it wasn't a manaje fatwa!