Thursday, March 02, 2006

HA! Vindication!

Orientate is NOT a word!

http://www.yourdictionary.com/library/mispron.html

4 comments:

AAM said...

Yeah, go to da liberry and look dat shiznit up.

Richmond said...

Athalete, artic, heighth...man, it's scary how many of these were taught to me by my elementary school teachers.

My second grade teacher read us a story about Roald Amundsen, the first man to reach the south pole, but she kept pronouncing it as "Ronald." I was following along in my book, and later I asked her why she was saying it like that.

Her response was that "the kids have never heard the name Roald." Because the last thing a teacher wants to do is teach kids about something they don't know.

Cassandra said...

I'm feeling especially vindicated with sherbet and herbs. Thanks for making my day with this lovely link.

snusnu said...

CAMILLE!! How lovely of you to stop by all the way from France. Give the blondie boy a kiss from his cousin.