Quote Originally Posted by Lise View Post
At last! I'm one of the cool kids! A teacher made fun of me in 7th grade for using "redundant" (correctly, by the way). "Ooh, don't we use big words?!" I should've replied, "ooh, don't you have a little vocabulary?!" But I digress.

I had a 9th grade civics teacher who pronouced Bourgeois as ber-gor-is. At age 14 I knew how to say the word, but I didn't have the nerve to correct her. I probably would have gotten suspended, or at least paddled. This was the mid-60s in Alabama where corporal punishment was still in use. The same woman said colyum instead of column. Over 40 years later, I can still dredge up the feeling of my teeth being on edge in that class.