Tag: language
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Dangerously Cheesy
It would be difficult to oversell how much I emphasized “GRATE” to make sure the kids would get it.
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Tech Names
Just think, this could happen to “Geoff” depending on where you fall on the gif/jif pronunciation spectrum. Or should I say: Geoff/Jeff?
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Go Suck A Lemon
Turns out (to no one’s surprise) that it is Very Unpleasant to suck on raw lemon wedges. So at least this colloquial phrase makes sense.
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The Gist
Context will tell us if the F-bombs were likely used in a “heck-yeah!” or a “what-the-heck?” sort of way.
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Personality Gauge
Similar to how you might not know how to say a word because you’ve only seen it written down, you might grab the wrong word in a phrase you don’t use very often. And maybe only saw written down.
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Food Dilemma
Thanks to my husband for the idea for this comic – though his vision was somewhat cooler with Pickle and Jam in an action-movie scene shooting stand-off type of situation.
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Not a Trick Question
So…English. Lots of the names for animals for when they’re alive and needing to be tended are Germanic: Cow, Pig, Sheep. But the words for when they’re prepared as food are Frankish: Beef, Pork, Lamb. Probably because at one point the Frankish conquerors were the upper-class eating the food raised by the lower-class Germanic folk.…
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Majestically
Whenever I hear the word “majestic” I think of Prince John in Disney’s Robin Hood agreeing with his fortune telling: “Handsome, regal, majestic, ha ha. Lovable, yes, yes. Cuddly. Oh, that’s me to a T. It truly is.”