There’s a show on the local PBS station called Louisiana: The State We’re In. On seeing the show listed in the TV guide, I loudly proclaim to my mom, “Louisiana: The State We’re In?! Well, of course it’s the state we’re in! Geez!” After my mom finished laughing, she explained it was a play on words. :smack:
A kip (a unit of measurement common in civil engineering equals 1000 pounds) stands for kilo pound. :smack: I’ve used kips for years and never realized that’s where the word came from.
Back when Cub Hubby was in the Army, one of his young soldiers enthusiastically told me about this cool new measurement of distance the Army was using these days: “klicks”. He was a bit deflated when I told him that was just slang for “kilometers.”
For most of my life I thought it was “Beck and Call” then come to find it’s “Beckon Call” :smack: Makes a bit more sense.
As a child, I also thought the classic sci-fi movie was " The Daily Earth Stood Still", learning later it was “The Day the Earth Stood Still”. Sheeesh!
Nope, I don’t get it either.
And you & I Might be thesame person, 'cuz was in grade 13 before I learned how to pronounce “awry” (doesn’t “aw-ree” just sound so much more descriptive?)
Heh - I only found that out recently, too. The wrong pronunciation always seemed more appropriate to me, but I guess I just got used to it.
I recently figured out why a touch-screen can detect the average of two points, but can’t detect the points themselves. I know that’s kind of obscure, but I’d been mystified by that for a long time.
I was lousy at grilling things on my little Weber charcoal grill for years: if I grilled them on the lower grill, then they were way too close to the (tiny layer of) charcoal that I could fit in, and if I cooked them on the upper grill, then I had to fill the bottom of the thing with nearly half a bag of charcoal in order to get the heat close enough to the food.
Then one day, it occurred to me that I could put the charcoal on the lower grill. The food came out beautifully, and manlier men for miles around mock me to this day.
Realizing that north-south highways are odd numbered and east-west are even was quite the revelation for me. I might have been told when I was learning to drive as a kid and it just didn’t stick for me, but it was a huge “Oh hey, wow, lookit this, does anyone else know this!?” moment for about 30 seconds until I realized everyone knew about it 'cept me.