Fugged

[elementalamber]

Hokay, so, because I'm a complete and total dork, and because this has been bugging me, off and on for months now, I want to clear something up.  Please, hold your hands up to your faces so that I can't see how hard you're laughing at the ridiculousness of me.

Remember the most obvious typo in Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince?  Something like

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[tcideneb]

No, it's totally a real word. Ananda gets a bit of a fug about her sometimes (Ananda's my dog).

I read it first in a poem that was, on one level, about the zoo.

-B.

[tcideneb]

I mean to say, it's not remotely slang.

-B.

[sosostris81]

Due to use, it probably was a typo in Harry Potter. What's more natural than saying "fogged the glass of the window?" Nothin', that's what.

[thelunarbee]

I thought the same thing, but looked it up right away to see if it was just an English way of saying it. Stupid Engrish!

[elementalamber]

Yeah, I meant to... but then, I didn't. Until now, haha!

[elementalamber]

I prefer the term "plagerist." It's ever so much prettier. :)

[elementalamber]

::mutters darkly, stomps away::

[nasturtium]

Neil Gaiman used it in his most recent novel as well.

[elementalamber]

Oh, that's right! I also saw it today in a Robin McKinley book.