Aristotle's "Golden Mean" always implied to me there must be an excess here and there above and below the line, not a boring flatline of death...

No paean toa peon?
"The plowman homeward plods his weary way..."

PS I believe the Aussies pronounce it strite?

I note that three of the definitions are -ght- words: righteous, straight, upright, to which can be added right. These have always troubled me, but I suppose they derive from reg through German -ct- and back with no extra charge for the H.

It reads better and more impressively omitting the indefinite article. "I sing of arms and man. "

I second that motion. I do have the impression that somewhere in the British Empire at sometime the word Was pronounced with three syllables including the L. I may be wrong.

Anyone see this?

https://mentalfloss.com/article/58233/2 ... um=website

I know most of these, but some I have never heard. Be interested to see the response from various countries.

Thumbing through my list of foreign languages here...

You might call it a con job, but there are quite a few con- and co- words used for sexual congress: conjugal, copulate, and from another direction entirely, the ever ambiguous intercourse and intimacy.

Or merely a treehugger?

Logophile? One who stacks wood for the fireplace?

In South Louisiana there is a village named Ville Platte. One might expect it, especially being in the heart of Cajun country, to bepronounced romantically as Veal Plah. Nah. It's vill plat, rhyming with hill flat. Gross!

There is, or used to be, A commercial cleaning pad, steel wool with embedded soap, called Brillo. I would guess the intent was to scrub pots and pans until they shone brilliantly?

I respectfully disagree with the good doctor hear about the frequency of using the word kindling. Surely there are in the fireplaces across America that use kindling daily to start fires. True, many have gas or electric fire starters, but not directly on logs. Around here, many hunters and families ...

The first thing that came to my mind when I saw the word was an essay that was in in English lit book my freshman year in college. It was an example of a student essay to show us what with the approval of faculty. I think it was entitled AHole in the Ground. Regarding pronunciation, around here we w...