I snorted tea out my nose after reading this! LOL I also just learned that the correct phrase is "for all intents and purposes" and not "for all intensive purposes."
When I was a precocious little shit (taught myself to read at 3), and before I'd been to a church to hear the words used correctly in a sermon or what-have-you, I would read the phrase
And the elders misled the people....
And think, GEEZ - those poor people! How horrible, to be... misled! I would pronounce it 'my-zl'd' because... well, that's how I thought it should be pronounced! I was mortified to learn the correct pronounciation was "miss-ledd". =X>D=
Also, I thought the word 'chaos' was pronounced "Chahh-ohhse".
Again, mortification ensued upon hearing the correct pronounciation of "kay-ahss".
Any wonder why I first became an English major? And am still a spelling/grammar nazi?
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I also just learned that the correct phrase is "for all intents and purposes" and not "for all intensive purposes."
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Yep.
When I was a precocious little shit (taught myself to read at 3), and before I'd been to a church to hear the words used correctly in a sermon or what-have-you, I would read the phrase
And the elders misled the people....
And think, GEEZ - those poor people! How horrible, to be... misled!
I would pronounce it 'my-zl'd' because... well, that's how I thought it should be pronounced!
I was mortified to learn the correct pronounciation was "miss-ledd". =X>D=
Also, I thought the word 'chaos' was pronounced "Chahh-ohhse".
Again, mortification ensued upon hearing the correct pronounciation of "kay-ahss".
Any wonder why I first became an English major?
And am still a spelling/grammar nazi?
=X>D=
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