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[AugustWest]

Cite?

[melack]

Has Ray always been left handed?

[acoxcae]

Has Ray always been left handed?

There are three things I love about this post:

You used your first post solely to ask about Ray's hand preference.
Your avatar.
The fact that when I read your name, I read it as "me lack," and immediately began thinking about what it could be that you lack.  I settled on lacking a soul.

Excellent first post, welcome.

[Roger]

I wonder if the phone on your avatar's bathing suit has a ChatSack® attached to it.

Also, welcome.

[Lister]

I don't believe we've seen him write left-handed before, but I am not one who remembers when the cartoon cat wrote last and could thus look it up.  Which hand did he shoot with when he Got Things Done On The Euphemism?

I personally pronounce it WOO-ster-sheer, which is somewhat close to how people in the UK say the name of the sauce, but then again, these same people have a town called Reading which is pronounced "Redding," so there you go.

I have a pet peeve about the first C in Arctic being missed.  I don't have a problem with the first D in Wednesday being missed, though, because everyone does that and why can't we just change the name?

Melack, the little man in your icon is disturbing, especially when I imagine that my icon is looking at yours.  I don't much like the look on my icon's face if that is indeed the case.  Also, that cellphone had better not be set to vibrate on incoming calls.

[CortJstr]

Next Jough is going to go all Carlin on us and explain that forte and fort are pronounced the same.

I choose to believe Melack's avatar is a tiny cartoon Ron Jeremy

Maybe Ray is just using his upstage hand?

[Emergent_C]

My friend, the pretentious editrix, always says acrosst rather than across. Whyyyyyy?

Also, cache should be pronounced as cash, but most people won't have any idea what you're talking about if you do so.

[acoxcae]

Is there another way to pronounce cache?  Strangely, even after studying computer science for many years and having classes with a lot of total idiots, this is one of the words I've never heard mispronounced - like RAM.

Wow, 187 posts!

[Emergent_C]

It's not so much an issue in computer stuff, but when you refer to a cache of weapons, say, a lot of people will pronounce it as cachet. For some reason.

[V-Adore]

I never got over a physics teacher of mine in high school who pronounced "joules" like "jowls," personally, even when the textbook corrected his mistake. The fact that he was a huge, jowly guy just added to the hilarity.

[CortJstr]

My family says acrosst, ludicroust, &c as a regional thing. I do also sometimes when I'm agitated but I really try not to. But then they also swap out short e's and i's at will (pen/pin) and never end a word with a long o (windas).

My SO mocks me mercilessly for saying "appriciate" with a short i instead of appreciate

[misterqueue]

I hate when people mispronounce plebian. 

It's Tout De Suite people, and pronounce it properly or not at all.

I despise when people pluralize person by utilizing "persons".

Also irregardless is not a word, regardless of whether or not they added it to the dictionary because people are moronic.

Without without regard is regard!  DUMB FUCKS!  I am sorry board, I am sorry that this has turned me into Pat.

[V-Adore]

Question: is "irrespective" a word? I've been seeing it a lot in scientific publications lately, and it looks terribly wrong, but I'm not sure whether I'm reflecting "irregardless" scorn onto it or what.

[misterqueue]

Irrespective is a word, but it's archaic.

You're getting hung up on the irr, but the problem with "Irregardless" is the mixture of the Ir- and -less, both are a wonderful example of a prefix and a suffix respectively, but much like pickles and chocolate SHOULD NEVER BE MIXED!

[CortJstr]

I hate when people mispronounce plebian.

I don't know how to say that one. But I'm down with plebeian. [/asshole]