Aaah, youth! We all have such memories of vehement certainty. Utterly mistaken vehement certainty. [Cringe]
yall i have another i said- so i was playing geoguessr and i was saying i think thats palestine or russia…i was trying to say ukraine or russia
My sister thought that there was a state called Are Kansas.
My wife has trouble with “diatomaceous”. She always flips the t and the m, “diamataceous”. I tell her “It’s diatomaceous because it contains diatoms” but that doesn’t help.
What are diamots?
Here in Rochester, NY, we have Chili Avenue, which is pronounced chī-lī not chi-lē, and Lima Avenue, which is pronounced lī-ma not lē-ma.
C’mon….everybody knows they’re a grill’s best friend.
Our elementary school teachers were high priestesses of the Funk & Wagnalls. We looked up every new word we came across. In the fifth grade we looked up how to pronounce the name of a large starchy banana (plantain) because it was mentioned in a story we were reading. I guess no one uses dictionaries anymore.
A television was on in another room in the sports report at the end of the news. It didn’t seem reasonable that the Yukon territory in far northwestern Canada would have the population to support a basketball team serious enough to make national news. Maybe there is not much else to do on a cold winter’s night up there.
It’s faster to use the Internet.
In Maryland there’s a Canine Road that’s pronounced “cah-NEEN” (“rode”).
Dire Straits has a line that goes “sweet surrender on the quay side”, and I’m pretty sure Mark Knopfler prounounced I “kway”. I wasn’t aware of how it was pronounced until we visited St. Croix.