One of my faves has always been when douchebags misuse the term mano a mano to mean "man to man".

As in: "I need to talk with you, mano a mano."

In such cases, it's best to just let it go. Nothing can possibly be gained by correcting them.

FuzzBob wrote:

The MayorofRockNRoll wrote:Everybody's gotta have their tenants to live by

Unless they're feeling rebellious and decide to "flaunt" tradition.

If I'm reading you right, that would actually be a correct use of the word. "Flaunt" can mean to treat with disdain or to dismiss derisively.

As of yet, I have never heard the word "flaunt" used in that way.

Funnily enough, it's most often used in a phrase like "flaunt tradition" or "flaunt the rules."

That's a proper usage?

I guess it could mean flaunting the rules as in, "Ha ha! Look at the rules! And here I am breaking them right in front of you! Neener-neener-neener" etc.

Yep, totally proper usage.

Obviously, it probably started as a malapropism with "flout," but it has been used in this context for so long and in such varied sources, that it has become accepted usage, as words often do. Language, she is a beautiful thing.

That being said, I use "flout". You know, just to be extra correct and prissy about my diction, which I usually am.

Whoa, dude. Too much information there.

You mean about my diction being well groomed despite getting such heavy use?

I recently saw a company who showed preference to men over women described as 'Shogunist.'

Ty Webb wrote:That being said, I use "flout".

So that makes you a "floutist" then?