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Originally posted by ltl/fb
I work with someone I like very much and who generally does not make grammatical/word choice errors. However, at least 3 times in the last couple weeks she has massively mispronounced a word (actually, she's leaving out an entire syllable of it). Is there anything I can do in a nice way to correct her? She's pretty thick-skinned, but.
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No. They're either doing it on purpose, or don't get it. Either way, there's no graceful way of correcting it, as it's probably ingrained. I used to work with a woman who always said Expresso. I said, it's espresso. She said, whatever. That never changed.
Also, the phrase is, "for shits and grins." She would actually say to customers, "well, just for chagrins, let's add up the figures." I told her that, chagrins is not what she thinks it means and the phrase is "for shits and grins." The answer, of course, was "whatever."
