Given the bizarre pronunciations of many place names in the US, I don’t see why anyone not from MA should know this. I sure didn’t, until I moved here. Of course I had pretty much never heard of the city until I moved here.
Tourists don’t go to Worcester MA BTW, unless they are really REALLY lost.
:eek: Those things are just scary looking. I think I will confine my pineapple/betenoir iinteraction to the tame kind that comes in little cans.
Tsk. Flippin’ uneducated Merrycans.
They are Horses’ Doofers. From horses. Nothing to do with ladies of negotiable affection.
Yes but could an African sparrow carry one?
Anyway I’m sure there’s much more recent ingorance I should fess up to, but for the time being I’ll go with: It wasn’t till the 7th grade that I figured out it was “Point of view”. I wrote “Point of you” in an book report. Although I’d like to point out I think my version still makes a certain amount of sense.
You’re essentially correct – the variant specific to prizefighting is toe the scratch, while those toeing the line might be engaged in any one of several activities. From World Wide Words:
African swallow, dear.
Most people do this because when watches needed winding it was easier to wind (without removing the watch) with the stronger of their two hands
That, and if you wear it on the arm you use most, it gets dinged and scuffed up pretty quick.
I just today found out that Sigmund Freud’s middle name was Schlomo!
I did not know this. This is how I’m going to refer to him in my paper now.
:smack: You learn something new every day.
I always read it as “Lipps, Incorporated,” too. I’m just too literal for my own good sometimes.
My mother is still convinced (no matter how many times I tell her otherwise) that she has to completely turn the computer off before she’s disconnected to the internet. Also, she seems to think now that she needs to be connected to the Internet to use any other programs (like MS Word).
I noticed that not too long ago, except that there’s not always an arrow. However, in my 2002 Malibu the dashboard indicator is on the same side as the fill-door, but I noticed in a rental Himself & I got not too long ago that it was the same (albeit the opposite side) - but neither had/have the arrow.
My personal one (which I might have mentioned in the last thread, I don’t remember right now) is that while I’ve been a big fan of cop/lawyer shows & books for years, I never realized that an “indictment” (pronounced/read “in-dict-ment”, phonetically) was the same thing as the word pronounced “in-dite-ment”. Whodathunkit?
I checked my car the other day, my 2006 almost-brand-new car, mind you, and yes—there was an arrow by the gas gauge pointing right. Where the fuel goes in.
Never would have noticed it otherwise.