Our household has distanced itself from Donald Trump*’s late-afternoon variety show. We look later to Aaron Rupar’s Twitter for the high-and-low-lights. So it’s extraordinary this morning to see that Trump* yesterday dissed countries under siege, or /seezh/, as he pronounces it:
“They don’t know about social distancing. These are countries that aren’t highly sophisticated.”Not like our country, where the president stands shoulder to shoulder with the day’s cast, all of them getting to touch the same microphone. Not like our country, where the governor of Georgia learned only yesterday that people with no symptoms can transmit the coronavirus. What the actual fuck.
[Garner’s Modern English Usage: “preferably pronounced /seej/ — not /seezh/.” I misspelled siege as seige when I wrote this post. My Mac seems to believe that seige is a real word.]
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Siege or seige? LOL
WTAF is right, though.
That’s Muphry’s law at work. My only defense is that my Mac didn’t flag seige as a misspelling. Really.
I've started reading Aaron Rupar's twitter account on your recommendation!!! And don't believe that any of them have any idea of what is really going on nor what should be done.
My new pet peeve is all of the medical professionals giving food safety advice, aka CNN and the family practice physician from Michigan. Check out https://twitter.com/bugcounter
Kirsten
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