Plethora

acrouch · Post by **acrouch** » September 7th, 2006, 4:14 pm

There. I just wanted to demonstrate that I know how to spell plethora. And I know what it means.

kbadr · Post by **kbadr** » September 7th, 2006, 4:16 pm

el guapo?

vine311 · Post by **vine311** » September 7th, 2006, 4:41 pm

Eeets a sweater!

nadine · Post by **nadine** » September 7th, 2006, 5:45 pm

I can spell the word. But can I pronounce it? That's the million dollar question

nadine · Post by **nadine** » September 7th, 2006, 5:47 pm

Oh. And to prove that I can use it in a sentence. Here is a plethora of eyes:

from Neil Gaiman's blog (http://www.neilgaiman.com/journal/2006/ ... -back.html)

vine311 · Post by **vine311** » September 7th, 2006, 5:51 pm

nadine wrote:I can spell the word. But can I pronounce it? That's the million dollar question

We may have another word to add to the book of "Nadine-glish".

Brian Boyko · Post by **Brian Boyko** » September 8th, 2006, 2:29 am

To be fair, I prounounce "gist" "gist" instead of "jist," because as a kid, I was always reading books that used much harder vocabulary than anyone who ever spoke to me ever did (why is it that everyone assumes you are an idiot just because you're 8?) - and so I had read the word "gist" a million times - and pronounced it in my head - before anyone ever used the word to me in conversation.

This has happened quite a bit with complex, short words, (especially french-based ones) that I read before hearing people say it.

Another time, I was lecturing my father (I was a teen by then) on proper use of the computer.

"What's this?" he asked me. "This Kotche." (Pronounced like "Ed Koch")
"Kotche? I've never heard of that," I replied. "I'll take a look at it."

I looked at it. It was the browser cashe.

"Dammit, Dad, that's just your browser Cashe-ay." (Rhymes with sashay)