Sunday, September 14, 2008

Language-cop Citations

Unless you're from Gay Paree, "homage" is pronounced AH-mij (or HAH-mij), not oh-MAHJ!



It's nuclear, not "nucular"; jewelry, not "jewlery"; realtor, not "realator"; asterisk, not "asterick"; nuptials, not "nuptuals"; corroborate, not "cooberate."



Your residence is your premises, not your "premise"; the lawyer's juror challenge was peremptory, not "preemptory"; tragedies are heart-rending, not "heart-rendering"; storms wreak, they do not "wreck," havoc.


Unless he was buried alive, he was likely interred, not "interned"; on the other hand, if he was a prisoner who survived confinement, he was interned, not "interred"; on the other hand, if he died in prison, he was interned, then interred!

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