I had an ROTC roommate and a soccer coach who used to say it that way it drove me nuts. Don’t use 25-cent words you can’t pronounce. And I am from Ohio, where our city names are pronounced nowhere near what they should be, but that one will forever irk me because there is no x. none. Emphasis on the wrong syllable (Mike Myers) is fine, putting an x in a word that doesn’t have it…
“Linear” has 3 syllables with the middle one being a long e. SWMBO goes nuts when it is pronounced like the name of the former NBA star referred to in the movie AirplaneLink
It’s a cow’s point
@radiolysis
I thought it was a mute point.
@radiolysis @rjquillin Moo-t point?
@pmarin @rjquillin from friends. Joey says it’s a cow’s point – moo.
Old timer’s disease (Alzheimer’s)
My pet peeve! In reference to a car or truck: center council (console)!
Once, about 40 years ago, quite drunk, used the term “mute”. I know…it still bothers me.
@FritzCat worst is that you weren’t quite drunk enough to not remember the whole thing.
Unfortunately our human « selective recall » doesn’t let us consciously select what to recall and what to « mute. »
LAX-a-dayzickle. It is lack, lack, there is no X.
I had an ROTC roommate and a soccer coach who used to say it that way it drove me nuts. Don’t use 25-cent words you can’t pronounce. And I am from Ohio, where our city names are pronounced nowhere near what they should be, but that one will forever irk me because there is no x. none. Emphasis on the wrong syllable (Mike Myers) is fine, putting an x in a word that doesn’t have it…
Rant over.
@KNmeh7 My wife had reduced it to Lexi-Daisy.
“Linear” has 3 syllables with the middle one being a long e. SWMBO goes nuts when it is pronounced like the name of the former NBA star referred to in the movie Airplane Link
Nukular a la Bush