Another entry from my personal dictionary:

[dark_blade]

Artisan:
[ahr-tiz-uhn]: (n) a craftsman of quality goods, often handmade.
[ahr-tee-jzhee-uhn]: (adj) a finely crafted good, handmade or made in a limited quantity. For example, the chocolate that haikujaguar likes to use for her drinking chocolate. (Alternate spelling: artesian

Comments

[polyfrog]

Nerds (like you and I) do that all the time; gathering words from context and usually only from reading them. We also often have pronunciation errors from only ever seeing the word written as opposed to hearing it spoken.

I think the adjective that does what you were thinking "artesian" did might be "artisanal".

[dark_blade]

Oh, I am hell on french words... french + potential undiagnosed dyslexia = people only sometimes recognize the word I'm trying to say. It took my girlfriend forever to figure out what I meant by muh-cray-b. I still can't say it right, I have to ask her "What's that dark bloody french b word again?"

She says that some days, it's a good thing I'm cute. *headshake*