Update

[librarianofdoom]

1. Belly dancing is unbelievably good for me. I don't know how I've lived without it these past few months

Comments

[gilded_garb]

"Sewist" is supposedly the politically correct version of "seamstress". Rather like children are now taught to say mailperson instead of mailman.

I hate it too ;o)

[jennylafleur]

Lame!

[librarianofdoom]

I've checked at least three different dictionaries, including the Oxford English Dictionary (one of the perks of working in a library), and "sewist" is not in any of them. The correct term is "sewer". Yes, it's a homonym for the place where our refuse goes, but just because something sounds bad, and because people are too illiterate to know that the same spelling can have two different pronunciations and meanings, that's no reason to go making up new words that serve the same function! We didn't come up with a new conjunction expressing a contrast between two separate clauses just because the current one sounds like someone's rear end! Grrr...

(okay, rant over)

[gilded_garb]

That's a lot of linguistic rage right there ;o) I completely agree with you, but I think it's a bit like how I feel about "snuck". It's not a word, but people will insist upon using it because it "sound better" and that drives me nuts.

Also, strictly speaking, sewer and sewer are heteronyms not homonyms. But now I'm just being picky...

[chloeandrudy]

And there's got to be something better than being called a sewer, which to me means a storm drain. LOL!

[jennylafleur]

Good luck on your class choices! I signed up for the Thimble one too... we'll see!