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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This is hilarious.

I have dishwater blonde hair. That’s what I have called it my whole life. Dirty blonde is the same thing. Ditchwater is not a thing.

lol.

It’s just very dark blonde hair. In the summer it gets much lighter from the sun. In the winter in a dark room it looks darker than some browns. When I was a small child it was platinum blonde. It was quite dark by the time I was 8 or 9.[/quote]

But ditchwater IS, in fact, “a thing” - and we know this because someone on this very board uses it and presumably her circle of real life friends/family/acquaintances uses it as well (otherwise she would have been “corrected” before now).

The fact that YOU have never heard of it doesn’t make it not “a thing”, just as the fact that some of us have never heard of “dishwater blonde” doesn’t mean it’s not “a thing”, right?

You can’t have it both ways. Sorry.[/quote]

NP. The lack of any online evidence of people using "ditchwater blonde" indicates that it's not a thing. I can only find a few mentions of it online, and it's always people asking "Is it dishwater or ditchwater" because they've heard the phrase but are unsure what they are hearing. Meanwhile, you can find millions of references to dishwater blonde, everywhere from beauty magazines to literary references.

It's really obvious the PP had just misheard the phrase "dishwater blonde" (or maybe her mom or some other person had misheard it), convinced herself it was ditchwater, and then proudly ridiculed everyone on the thread for saying it wrong. But if she'd just bothered to google it one time, she would have been corrected and realized she'd been saying/hearing it wrong the whole time.

The insistence on doubling down on this is nuts. It's okay to get words wrong sometimes. My brother thought the word misled was pronounced like miser for decades before he realized his mistake. It's funny! But he doesn't go around insisting that everyone else is wrong and that his imagined/made up pronunciation is actually the correct one, because he doesn't have a personality disorder.[/quote]

+1
I used to think the word vapid was pronounced "VAY-pid."  This was up until relatively recently.   :wink: [/quote]

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