Lexical annoyances

[modernwizard]

1. "Homage" is pronounced with the accent on the first syllable ["hommidge" or "ommidge"], not the second ["home aaaazh" or "ome aaaazh"]. I don't care how it's pronounced in French; now that it's Anglicized, its pronunciation is too.

2. "Unique" does not mean "unusual," "really cool" or "rare." "Unique" means "one of a kind." Its Latin root, "uni-," means "one," for God's sake!  While unique things may be unusual, really cool and/or rare, things that are rare, unusual and/or really cool are not necessarily unique...only if one of them exists in the whole universe.

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[ship2shore.livejournal.com]

I'm an art student, I can leave the H off if I want :-P