someone on here misused kitsch to describe rock music.

she was soundly corrected. it was hilarious.

SO hard to do sincerely and without sounding like a prick. So unless it's someone I'm really close to and I don't want to see them making the same mistake with other people I'll only ever do this when I'm actively being a prick.

As the original question is stated, I almost always let it go. Even with my brother, who mispronounces "high level" words in just about every other conversation, I often lack the heart to set him straight; after all, I know what he's trying to say.

Hey Soup, just between you and me, it should read, "Correcting someone when he misuses or mispronounces a word." Just saying. Didn't want to be a dick.

Sorry man.

I was embarrassed quite a bit when my ex corrected my pronunciation of "gamut", but I haven't mispronounced it since.

I'm weird. I would hope that anybody, even a stranger, would correct me if I mispronounce or misuse a word. I'd really rather know.

I would do the same for any friend of mine. If somebody would rather look stupid and not even know about it, then I guess I'd put it on them to tell me so.

As far as the Chairmichael thing, unless there's some ugly repercussions in store for you if you set her straight, tell her you know for sure that she's saying the name wrong, and suggest that maybe she should call the business after hours and get their voicemail which will most likely use the correct pronunciation.

This reminds me of a similar incident a while back with a friend of mine and the company Matsushita, which was allegedly pronounced like "ma-SHOO-sta".

I often do this unintentionally- I am not trying to offend the person, but I just say whatever it is correctly after they say it incorrectly. I think people should be educated if they are ignorant- I would want the same.

marsupialized wrote:bottles of champaign

I wanted to say something about this in another thread, but brought it over to this one because I thought it would be more fitting. Do you think they ordered bottles of Urbana Champagne?

Knock Knock.

Who's there?

Two.

Two who?

To whom!

I work in the writing department of a company that scores standardized tests. People scoring essays are supposed to notify me if they encounter a student essay that has anything disturbing or potentially dangerous in it.

Recently a reader showed me an essay in which the student wrote, "I wish I was dead."

I told her, "It should be I wish I were dead. It's the subjunctive case. But anyway yeah, I'll report it."

I stopped thanksgiving dinner a few years back to announce that the next person to pronounce the word "Wash" with a letter 'R' shoved in the middle was going to get slapped. "WORSH" is not a word and if it is, it is the sweat that gathers under your ball bag during a hockey game or other athletic activity.

That is the only one that really gets me.

Except my girlfriend pronounces salsa "sulsa" that pisses me off too.