I keep hearing and seeing people using “mid-drift” instead of “midriff”. I think this is an interesting change. (I’m not knocking it; I just think it’s interesting.) Do you say this or know someone who does? I’m sure I’ve seen it on this board.
I have heard people say it. Fortunately, I’ve never actually seen it written. If it’s spoken, I can let it slide as odd pronunciation, but written? I think I would lose it. That kind of stupidity just gets to me like you don’t even know.
As I sit here on my new labtop computer, I can’t help but wonder what a mid-drift is.
I’ll just tell you that it frequently appeels to the pruryunt interest.
Here’s a guilty party
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Rightly or wrongly, it’s certainly apt to refer to the action of a lot of female clothing these days. I have tops that keep drifting to points north of the navel which would be fine if only the slacks & jeans weren’t made to slither south. I’d be much happier if they didn’t drift away from the midpoint, myself.
Do I say “mid-drift”? I do not. I speak the King’s English and try my best to enunciate. I really am appalled at the number of folks who don’t understand the spelling behind the words. I recently inquired about a gentleman’s last name. The answer? “Dotson, just like the dog”. Do WHAT? Err, that’s Dachshund. It’s not spelled OR pronounced the same. Sheesh.
I do not say it. When I encounter it in print, I fix it. (I’m an editor, so this is my job.)
But I think what we have here is language drift. Someday, mid-drift will be correct.
The one that gets me is “step foot,” as in, “I didn’t dare step foot in her room.” It used to be “set foot.” I guess “step foot” is equally correct, but I don’t like it. So I change that, too. (In print, on things I’m editing.)
The problem is that people hear things, and don’t read, and then they sit down and try to write on message boards without knowing the mechanics (because they can talk just fine, so they think they can write, and in some cases they are correct. In other cases, they’re not.) Somebody sees something like “mid-drift” and says, “Aha, so that IS how it’s spelled,” and goes on to perpetuate the error.
I prefer to perpetuate errors in pronunciation. For instance my son and I plan to read The Count of Monte Cristo this summer, and whenever I tell somebody this they say, “Did you say the Count of Monte CRISCO?” And I say, “No!” Although I probably did say Crisco.
That is all I’m confessing to tonight.
No, it won’t, because your mid does not drift. It might if, like your ‘step foot’ example, it actually made some level of logical sense, but a ‘drifting mid’ is not any kind of logic, so it’s nothing more than a homonym, and so won’t take hold.
At least, I hope it won’t, anyway.
No. I don’t say it, and I’d never seen it before this thread.
I also don’t regard anything with distain, which I just read here.
I’d never come across this before I saw it in a thread on here. I’ve always used “midriff” and I had to stop and think what the poster actually meant when I read “mid-drift”.
I thought this thread was going to be about sliding around corners in a car. So, no :).
Mine did! It has drifted out a little and when I sit my mid drifts down a little. I’m working on it though.
A mid drifting too far often results in a muffin top.
One example is the word drawers. I even posted here once a link to I believe was from Target, where they were advertising an item that had “draws.” I keep seeing it, I keep hearing it and yet no part of my mind can make it ok.
Just don’t ask me to pronounce candelabra, I just can’t do it.
It’ll always be wrong, but someday it might be accepted.
See Irregardless.
I had never given it any thought - which makes me believe that I would be one of those who would have gotten it wrong. Of course, now I’ll know.
Uh oh. I don’t know what’s wrong with that. Help?
(And no, not knowingly on the mid-rift thing. I may have taken an odd angel on the topic of angles, once or twice, but that’s typo, not ignorance. And I know that atheists aren’t the most athi.)
It’s disdain. But I think you all are just prejudice.