At least that’s the gist i take from Word A Day’s offering today, “disshabile” which they say is pronounced dis uh beel, or something like that. I’ve always pronounced it in the French manner, but i guess I’ve gotten called out as a francophone jerk.
The OP is never wrong.
Cela ne devrait-il pas être dans la Pit?
On doit parler en Anglais ici.
That’s a joke. I’m reminding MM of the rule to write posts here in English
They also spell it with 2 Ls and 1 S, which my phone won’t recognize as legit.
Until I saw this, I would have spelled it differently: dishabille. TIL something new.
As per the previous post, they spell it right. My phone auto-“corrected” dishabille into disshabile (I’m on my laptop now).
Here’s a link to the Word Daily site: see for yourself
Ah, I see.
I was hoping my post was sufficiently ironic to escape the modhammer.
I am honestly more familiar with the spelling “déshabillé”. And it’s not being “a francophone jerk”, it’s “fluent in the language of courtly love”.
Not to mention Kurt Cobain.
I would probably spell it “deshabille” (without the accents).
Pas devant les modérateurs…
Not in front of the moderators…
Pretentious? Moi?
Not pretentious, just shallow and pedantic.
Full frontal portentous pretentious unmoderated naked X? For those so inclined, we do already have a thread about Elon Musk in The Pit.
Yeah, me, too.
I must be a snob as well because I mocked my sister when she pronounced the “sh” part of the word as sh, not s.
To be clear, I’ve been pronouncing that word something like “duz-ah-bee-YAY” when it appears in an English text, which I think is the correct pronunciation.