I like my strumpets with jam and tea.
Well, some people try to pass it off as a Gibson.
Probably the same way “unique” gets misused.
You people are making me crave English Muffins.
Nice.
Nah, they’re talking about crumpets. English Muffins are not germane to the situation.
Also, login is a noun; log in is a command. Everyday is an adjective. Otherwise it’s every day. Alright is not all right.
It’s not step foot, it’s set foot. It’s not butt naked, it’s buck naked.
My theory: people don’t read anymore so they don’t see these words written out. They only hear them spoken. And if they mishear them once, that’s what they remember. Another theory: I’m a pedantic curmudgeon who needs a hobby.
There was an episode of Star Trek TNG (a series noted, of course, for its snappy dialogue) where Dr. Crusher investigated two cell lines (or something) under a microscope (or something) and expressed astonishment that there was no significant “differentiation” between the DNA sequences.
It’s DIFFERENCE you uncouth Yank bastard! Although I did wonder for a bit if we’d find out they’d somehow evolved to higher life forms and started trading calculus techniques.
We did not.
The word you really wanted here was hypothesis.
I have an EpiPen. Where can I get an epitome?
Didn’t it come with an epimanual?
Also, I would like to present to you: voilà. It means ‘here is’, ‘Here it is!’ or ‘Ta-da!’ As in, ‘Voilà! The Christmas feast!’
A viola is a musical instrument, or one of Shakespeare’s best characters. ‘Viola! The Christmas feast!’ makes no sense unless you are demanding that Viola, or a viola, come to dinner.
A wallah is an old-fashioned word for ‘guy’ in a phrase specifying his occupation or origin - ‘the viola wallah’ is ‘the guy who plays/sells/fixes violas’. ‘Wallah! The Christmas feast!’ doesn’t mean much of anything.
The languagium is where they keep all the words.
How is “unique” getting misused? I specifically checked this word in many dictionaries, and guess what, they all list the “wrong” meaning (unusual, rare) as a secondary meaning. If it’s good enough for a dictionary, it’s good enough for me.
Heh.
Seriously, while I wouldn’t say it makes a person look stupid, I would say that people trying to look smart by setting down a bunch of prescriptivist rules almost always find the effort backfires.
All I know is I’m so smart, my brain hurts.
That’s a sinus infection.
That’s, uh, wrong. Why can’t Mark Zuckerberg and the idiot with a trust fund each be an epitome of a rich bastard?
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a person or thing that is typical of or possesses to a high degree the features of a whole class:
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I think “possesses to a high degree” encompasses all of their examples.
Not to go off on a tangent but that’s a prime example of an infinitesimal mistake since it wasn’t really integral to the plot and didn’t limit my enjoyment of the show.
Epsilon.
Can we make people use “beg the question” correctly while we’re at it?
Or euphemism.