Did you ever feel stupid? (and gentle corrections)

[Sister Mary Lunatic]

This was not heard, but seen in my local newspaper, which made me chilled
thinking about what OTHER mistakes the editors let pass....

The writer presented an entire story about older people and the problem of
senile "dimensia" -- I did a double take and had to read the word out loud
before I realized that they were not speaking of some unknown new disease,
but of DEMENTIA.  It made me cringe, thinking what kind of writer would
submit a story without looking up details about the disease, and what kind
of editor/spell-checker would let that word through....

Speaking of misheard words, my favorite will always be "There's no
mayonnaise in Ireland"  (No man is an island)!  Usually the funniest
misheard phrases come from songs, as detailed at http://www.kissthisguy.com
.


SML


-----Original Message-----
From: Doreen Rich [mailto:corn_patch_witch at yahoo.com]
Sent: Wednesday, August 29, 2001 10:28 PM
To: HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com
Subject: [HPFGU-OTChatter] Re: Did you ever feel stupid? (and gentle
corrections)


> Here's an unrelated (to the original topic, anyway) question: has
> there ever been a situation where you've had to "correct" (for lack
> of a better word) your SO (significant other) that caused you quite
a
> bit of internal turmoil?  Like, for instance, he continually spells
> your sister's name wrong, or YOUR name wrong (true cases,
concerning
> my current SO and an ex-SO respectively)?  What were your solutions?
>
> Jennifer (not Jenifer, nor Jeniffer)